Dr. Asma Al Thani, QU Vice-President for Medical and Health Sciences, meeting with student leaders from university's health and medical colleges.
QU Health at Qatar University (QU) recently organised an open meeting in the context of its continuous endeavour to bring the views of students together and answer their most important inquiries about issues related to their studies and student life across its four colleges — College of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and College of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Asma Al Thani, Vice-President for Medical and Health Sciences, met with a group of student leaders from the health and medical colleges. During this meeting, Dr. Asma touched on all issues of interest to students of QU Health.
Dr. Asma spoke about the vision, mission of QU Health, and the most prominent achievements during the academic year, most notably the joining of the College of Nursing to the sector and the mechanism for implementing the sector’s strategic plan. She praised the efforts of student bodies from the various colleges and how they enrich the health education system in Qatar.
The students put forward their suggestions and inquiries about College of Medicine students being better prepared for international exams and the Hamad Medical Cooperation residency programme, in addition to their proposal to develop a special programme for field trips and visits to medical and health facilities in Qatar and schools to inform them about QU Health colleges.
Furthermore, the students were eager to have students from the various associations working together in activities and initiatives related to health profession students.
In conclusion, Dr. Asma urged the students to invest their time and enrich their extracurricular activities by focusing on community service and providing distinguished health care that reflects the quality of health and medical education at the university because they are ambassadors of QU Health after graduation.
