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Medical student links with Saudi Arabia
Eighteen students from the College of Medicine at Al Imam Mahammed Ibn Saud University in Saudi Arabia have been visiting the Research Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine over the last four weeks.
As well as learning about the latest research carried out at Keele and the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, this year their academic programme has enabled them all to spend a day in a local GP Surgery, seeing how research is carried out in General Practice. Lectures and tours of hospital departments such as the Cancer Centre have been accompanied by an individual laboratory project, based at the Guy Hilton Research Centre or the Huxley Building.
The visit programme has been developed and managed by Dr Paul Roach and Mr Mark Smith over the last three years and Al Imam University has revealed plans to continue the research visits as a distinctive part of its undergraduate medical degree.
This year the students have been accompanied by the Director of Al Imam University's Student International Program, Assistant Professor of Dermatology Dr Sami Aldaham. Dr Aldaham has taken the opportunity to meet key staff in the University, local hospitals and the Keele Science & Business Park to discuss future collaborations, undergraduate medical student placements and potential for research degrees.
In the photograph two of the students are seen with Dr Aldaham (right) while using muscle stimulation equipment in MacKay Building during a day studying rehabilitation research with Professor Anand Pandyan, Dr Ed Chadwick and Dr Theo Kyriacou.
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