College Mission

  1. Receiving students who have completed high school / scientific stream (Bio) through the official admission channels in accordance with the ministerial instructions in force.
  2. Preparing doctors:
    • Meet the current and future health needs and expectations of society and the world.
    • Proficient in dealing with the huge expansion in the amount of knowledge and skill, and the rapid developments in the use of modern technologies in the field of health.
    • Characterized by the ability of continuous education
    • Able to complete postgraduate studies after graduating from college
    • Able to work in different branches of medicine.
    • Well trained on new information technologies.
    • Adept at adapting their medical education to changing conditions in the health care delivery system.
    • Aware of the doctor’s role in society as a teacher and educator
    • Qualified to lead the medical team.
    • Efficient at cooperation between different disciplines.
    • Excel in conducting useful scientific research “basic, clinical, behavioral and social biomedical sciences” that provide a solution to a problem or consolidate information, making medical practice evidence-based.
  3. Work to achieve the above-mentioned goals through the college curriculum, which is characterized by the following:
    • Continuing medical education.
    • Based on the basic competencies necessary for good medical practice, according to the graduation outcomes appendix prepared by the Iraqi Medical Colleges Outcomes Committee (attached).
    • Integrated Curriculum: The thematic organization of the curricula allows for the greatest degree of horizontal integration across subjects and vertical spiral integration within subjects.
    • Curriculum based on the study of body systems.
    • Early study of clinical science and skills.
    • Self-Directed Learning: The curriculum and schedule are structured so that students have time to learn through self-reflection, self-assessment, clinical reflection and critical thinking to be independent lifelong learners.
    • The student is the center of learning.
    • Structural and achievement evaluation systems for each domain of learning with the presence of blueprint assessment, and continuous feedback
    • Subject to continuous renewal by being subject to feedback-based evaluation
  4. Use the following learning strategies to achieve all curriculum objectives:
    • Problem-based learning in small groups.
    • Resource lectures.
    • Team based review sessions
    • The laboratories of basic science and anatomy.
    • Professional clinical skills courses.
    • Self-learning.
    • Problem-based research.
    • Learn basic medical sciences in a clinical environment.
    • Critical thinking in accessing diagnostic possibilities
  5. Developing faculty members
  6. Improving the learning environment
  7. Work on completing the construction of the university hospital