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A specialty that focuses on determining the cause of death through dead body examination. Dissection is performed by a forensic physician who studies all possible causes of death according to the available data. Such cases are usually performed through investigation in cases of criminal and civil laws.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. All theoretical sciences of forensic medicine and acquaintance of the same.
2. Criminal and legal sciences of such specialty.
3. Skill of investigating deaths and everything related to them, including determining the time, hour and causes of death.
4. Necessary skills to practice the specialty, including toxicology and psychiatric sciences such as violence and suicide.
5. Surgical skills and interventions that are required for the practice of forensic medicine.
6. Making follow-up plans for cases and involving the necessary competent authorities and their medical needs.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with dealing with diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and injuries that are related to work.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Health assessment of personnel, which includes their physical and psychological health status.
2. Periodic medical monitoring of personnel in case there is a possibility that an employee has been exposed to adverse health effects in the workplace.
3. Infection prevention and control in the workplace, including vaccinations and personal protective equipment.
4. Ability to diagnose, assess and make a complete treatment plan, including reviews and instructions of any diseases and injuries related to work or work environment.
5. Scope of environmental pollution, toxins and radiation control and promoting the work environment.
6. Assessment of disability and absence from work and return to work after a disease or an injury.
7. Making plans and being prepared for emergency cases at work.
8. Travel medicine and prevention of diseases and injuries on travelling.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty that combines knowledge and skills related to the population health and those related to clinical practice. This includes the skills that are essential for facing challenges that affect the population health, including promoting, protecting and maintaining health. This is in addition to morbidity, disabilities and mortality prevention and control of chronic diseases.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Basic knowledge of preventive medicine, in addition to the necessary skills to apply such knowledge on a wide group of population health issues in social, economic, political and environmental aspects where they take place.
2. Assessment of population health determinants, which includes income, environment, sex, education, social support systems, healthy behaviors and obtaining healthcare.
3. Integration of health determinants into research methodologies, data presentations, and analytics, as well as developing strategies that improve population health.
4. Providing preventive care and promoting health for all community individuals, including vaccinations, early tests to recognize diseases before their appearance, in addition to smoking cessation, premarital tests and travel medicine.
5. Describing normal history, epidemiology, risk factors, health and economic burdens that are related to infectious and non-infectious diseases and injuries.
6. Scope of infection control and applying it on procedures and policies to reduce risks and prevent the spread of epidemics.
7. Scope of environmental pollution control and applying it on procedures and policies to reduce risks and maintain the community health.
8. Designing, implementing and assessing comprehensive monitoring and survey systems related to community health.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with health promotion, disease prevention and management of community and population health. This includes the combination of promotion, protection and improvement of communities or population health. It is a blend of sciences, skills and values that function through community activities and include programs and services that aim at health protection and improvement of all population.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Critical thinking skills related to public health sciences: behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, demography, health in workplace, prevention of chronic and infectious diseases, psychiatric issues and injuries.
2. Providing preventive care and promoting health for all family and community members, including vaccinations, early tests to recognize diseases before their appearance, in addition to smoking cessation, premarital tests and travel medicine.
3. Information gathering, assessment, analysis and application (including data, facts, concepts and theories) in order to make evidence-based decisions. Further, to prepare budgets and reports conduct investigations and make recommendations for the development of policies and programs.
4. Team building, communication, negotiation and cooperation skills for the purpose of seeking health promotion.
5. The impact of biological, social, cultural, economic and material factors on the health and well-being of the individual and society.
6.  How to address population diversity on planning, implementing, and assessing public health programs and policies.
7. Leadership skills that build capabilities, improve performance, and enhance the quality of the work environment. It also enables organizations and communities to create, communicate and implement shared visions and values. 

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with diagnosis, assessment and management of individuals of different ages that are physically injured or suffer from cognitive impairment and disability that includes diagnosis and treatment (function recovery) of patients with functionally disabled conditions that were disabled due to a disease, disorder or injury. Moreover, it includes comprehensive and multidisciplinary care that aims at complete recovery of the patient through meeting the individual’s physical, emotional, medical, occupational and social requirements. It also includes treatment of associated diseases and disabilities and preventing their complications

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Basic sciences of anatomy, motor system, nervous system and cardiovascular physiology.
2. Basics of ergonomics and applying it on clinical care, in addition to kinetics and kinetic studies in respect with their relation to walking, activity and biomechanics in sport and exercises.
3. Basic sciences of clinical and molecular genetics and geriatrics and their effect on the physiology and microbiology of inflammations, specifically the musculoskeletal system and the principles of nerve injury and repair.
4. Principles of pharmacology and includes pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes that occur with physical disabilities and the effect of pharmacological agents on patients with physical diseases and cognitive and behavioral disabilities, in addition to drugs with withdrawal effects.
5. Imaging techniques used in conditions of the musculoskeletal and neurological systems, including indications, contraindications and selection of the appropriate technique.
6. Principles of full medical assessment and possible rehabilitation in the full clinical scope and emergency and urgent medical management of involved patients.
7. Principles of management of pediatric special rehabilitation that include dysphagia, stuttering, neurogenic bladder, irritable bowel syndrome, sexual and reproductive health and dysfunction, fitness and well-being, convulsions and others.
8. Principles of perioperative and postoperative functional improvement and postoperative care of musculoskeletal system, in addition to principles of medical prescribing and management of prosthetics, spine and orthotics.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with geriatric diseases and focuses on healthcare of the elderly.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of the elderly, communicate effectively with them, and compensate for auditory, visual and cognitive deficits.
2. Basic skills in multiaxial diagnosis including the biological, psychological and social formula in respect with its relation to the elderly.
3. Basic science in physiological geriatric changes in organ systems, sensory systems and perception.
4. Basic skills in pharmacology and geriatrics principles. This includes pharmacokinetics and side effects in the elderly, risks of polypharmacy and identification and prevention of drug interactions.
5. Basic skills in assessment and diagnosis of psychological disorders of the elderly, their effect on physiological state, morbidity and mortality, including: mood, psychotic, anxiety, cognitive and personality disorders and other diseases.
6. Basic techniques of psychotherapy and behavioral therapy, in addition to assessment of cultural and ethnic varieties of the elderly, acquaintance of family issues and providing care.
7. Basic skills in recognizing indications and contraindications for referring patients to physical, occupational, verbal or other rehabilitative therapies.
8. Evaluate and manage the care of patients at high risk for poor outcome from common cases such as deconditioning, stroke, hip fracture and dysphagia.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with neonates that suffer from a disease or need special medical care due to premature labor, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations (congenital anomalies) and other diseases.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Cases of high-risk pregnancy and pathophysiology of common pregnancy and labor complications and their effect on pregnancy and the embryo.
2. Prenatal investigations, their indications, risks and advantages such as chorionic villus sampling, non-stress test, ultrasound, and others.
3. Understanding the effect of different maternal diseases on pregnancy, in addition to the effect of maternal drugs on the fetus.
4. Normal development of premature infants and available tests to assess neurodevelopmental outcomes.
5. All neonatal acute and chronic diseases.
6. Neonatal tumors.
7. Neonatal CPR.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of a wide group of pediatric diseases, methods of their prevention and child health promotion.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Taking full medical history, clinical examination, diagnosis and understanding of the child morbidity.
2. Assessment and follow-up of acute and chronic pediatric diseases.
3. Using preventive and therapeutic interventions of pediatrics effectively.
4. Assessment and diagnosis of pediatric oncological cases.
5. Health supervision, assessment of growth and development in pediatrics, prevention of disease through immunization, prevention of infection through education, promotion of a healthy environment and a healthy lifestyle.
6. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to pediatrics.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with emergency cases of different severity. It is the primary portal for sorting before the patient enters the hospital in critical and unscheduled cases, where the patients are divided into several areas according to the severity of the emergency symptom. Patients are then diagnosed, treated and transferred to the required specialty to complete the required care or dismiss them from the hospital and make reviews for them.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Ability to assess cases of injuries and accidents and urgent medical cases of different kinds and different age groups.
2. Ability to sort patients and determine priorities in the emergency environment during crises and others as well. This is in addition to the ability to form priorities for patients according to the disease severity.
3. CPR and its acquaintance for different groups and knowing the management of all types of thrombi whether cerebral, cardiac, pulmonary or others.
4. Making a full treatment plan for patients whether they are scheduled to be discharged, anesthetized or transferred, including the necessary medications, required reviews, and full instructions for the same.
5. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to emergency and critical cases.
6. Basic surgical skills in the management of emergency and critical cases.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.

A specialty concerned with advanced or critical care of life or involved body organs of critically ill patients. Moreover, it includes treatment and diagnosis of critical care patients and performing essential medical interventions until they are medically stable.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Theoretical sciences related to critical care medicine practice.
2. Essential skills in practice such as diagnosis, assessment and making treatment and follow-up plans for critical cases.
3. Full knowledge of all treatment options and surgical interventions that are appropriate for each critically ill patient.
4. Full knowledge of all CPR sciences for different age groups of critical cases.
5. Ordering laboratory investigations and medical imaging, collecting samples and taking biopsies in order to reach medical diagnosis.
6. Acquaintance of methods of dealing with crises and disasters and how to make the necessary plans for the same and distribute cases according to their priority.

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 24 months. It should also fulfill the minimum acceptable limit of practicing the specialty according to the standards and regulations of the commission at the time of submitting the professional registration application.