Practitioner

A specialty concerned with anesthesiology and includes basic skills and sciences of patient’s anesthesia and care before and after surgical operations, labor and some specific surgical intervention.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Skills that are essential for practicing anesthesia and different treatment options of the specialty and competency to perform the same for different age groups.
2. Skills in clinical evaluation, taking history and medical diagnosis of most diseases and injuries for different age groups and knowing the appropriate medical options of anesthesia for them.
3. All risks resulting from anesthesia and the ability to make decisions for all types of anesthesia procedures.
4. Different methods of treatment and control of acute and chronic pains.
5. All types of drugs of analgesia and anesthesia.
6. Management of critical and ICU patients.

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.

Medical genetics is the study of genetic diseases, their etiology and how to prevent their recurrence.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions in any of the diseases related to genetic sciences and medicine.
2. Basic concepts of cell and molecular biology and human genetics.
3. Physiological description during stages of growth or pregnancy.
4. Recognizing common clinical phenotypes that generally appear in genetic and metabolic disorders.
5. Underlying biological/ molecular etiology of the disease.
6. Review, interpret and understand related laboratory data and results through genetic investigations and understand their clinical significance.
7. Basic skills in integrating other clinical, radiological and laboratory data to provide the best diagnosis based on results of histological examination.
8. Recommend additional medical investigations or procedures that help reach the appropriate healthcare.

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 the endocrine system, its diseases, its specific secretions known as hormones. Moreover, it cares for stages of human growth, psychological or behavioral activities of metabolism and the biological processes resulting from hormones.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions in any of the diseases related to hormonal disorders.
2. Basic and advanced microbiology of endocrine glands, physiology and pathophysiology that provide the basis of understanding endocrinal disorders.
3. Basic information and scientific approaches to diagnose, treat and prevent endocrinal disorders, including pediatric endocrinal disorders.
4. Analysis, reading and diagnosis of endocrinal laboratory investigations results.
5. Diagnosis and assessment including reviews and instructions of common diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension and hyperlipidemia, etc.
6. Treatment of common complications of all endocrinal diseases.

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 diseases of allergy and immunology. It includes the study, diagnosis and treatment of health issues and immunological cases, including allergy and related symptoms and reactions. It also includes asthma, rhinitis, nasal sinuses issues or seasonal allergy and vaccinations, etc. Moreover, it includes interactions and reactions of drugs, food and others that threaten life. Furthermore, it includes immunological diseases that involve man.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions in any immunology and allergy sciences.
2. Basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, autoimmune diseases, immune mechanisms and cells involved in immune responses. This includes differentiation, origin, reception, interactions and secretion.
3. Basic sciences allergens and antigens including criteria that are not related to the disease, methods of measurement and avoidance of hypersensitivity and other immunological disturbances. This is in addition to microbiology and clinical immunology.
4. Basic skills in diagnosis methods used in immunology and clinical allergy sciences, including indications, contraindications, principles of application and methods of interpretation.
5. General principles and treatment methods used in clinical immunology.
6. Management of emergency and critical cases related to the immune system. This includes acute cases of hypersensitivity that involve multiple vital systems in the body.

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 infectious diseases. It includes transmitted or acquired diseases whether at the hospital or in the community for all age groups.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any infectious diseases.
2. Providing urgent care for emergency cases.
3. Etiology, epidemiology, normal history and pathology of all infectious diseases.
4. Protection and prevention of infection and spread of infectious diseases.
5. Infection control and prevention inside hospitals and health facilities. This includes follow-up and treatment of infection of healthcare professionals during work.
6. Ordering laboratory investigations, medical imaging and taking samples and biopsies to reach the medical diagnosis.
7. Drugs, antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. This includes limiting bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
8. Counseling in premarital tests to prevent sexually transmitted diseases between spouses.

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.

Rheumatology is concerned basically with immune disturbances of the skeletal system, soft tissues, autoimmune and vascular diseases and inherited connective tissue disorders.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any diseases of rheumatological diseases.
2. Differentiation of physiological or transient cases from pathological rheumatoid cases.
3. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to rheumatological diseases.
4. Management of emergency and critical cases related to rheumatological diseases.
5. Treatment of common complications of rheumatological diseases.
6. Prevention of rheumatological cases and promoting 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 hematological diseases and disorders. It includes the study of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of hematological diseases. Moreover, it includes treatment of bleeding disorders, leukemias, RBCs disorders, bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. Further, it cares for physiological development of blood, bone marrow, blood vessels, spleen and lymph nodes.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any hematological diseases and disorders.
2. Diagnosis, investigations and management of acute leukemia, myeloproliferative disorders, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, hemorrhagic clots and disorders, Hemoglobinopathy and all benign hematological diseases.
3. Reading, interpretation and acquaintance of hematological laboratory investigations and methods of coagulation tests. Further, it includes blood film preparation and interpretation, ability to perform bone marrow aspiration and biopsy and interpretation of bone marrow samples and biopsies.
4. Performing lumbar puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes and CSF assessment.
5. Acquaintance of basic skills in stem cells transplant.
6. Using chemotherapy, its mechanism of action, knowing short and long-term side effects and acquaintance of multimodal treatment, including using radiation therapy and surgery.
7. Immunological mechanisms related to hematological oncological diseases, stem cell transplant, knowing the appropriate use of immunosuppressive agents and treatment of bacterial and fungal infections.
8. Basic genetics in the way of inheriting different hematological and oncological diseases and general principles of genetics.

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 the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of neurological diseases in individuals from the stage of embryo and until adolescence. This includes all congenital, hereditary and acquired neurological diseases including neurological tumors, chronic diseases and injuries.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any diseases of pediatric neurology.
2. Providing urgent care for emergency cases of pediatric neurological diseases including injuries.
3. Diagnosis and treatment of congenital malformations and disorders of pediatric neurology.
4. Rehabilitation of patients including rehabilitation of their families and living with the disease.
5. Diagnosis and treatment of all cases of neurological inflammations in pediatrics.
6. Neurological medical imaging, EEG tests and the study of nerve conduction.

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 diseases of nervous system that includes the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junctions and skeletal muscles.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions in neurology and applying knowledge of clinical, and biomedical sciences related to neurology.
2. Basic sciences of anatomy, embryological development, physiology, pathology, and nervous system; in addition to developmental neurology, genetics and epigenetics of neurology.
3. Basic skills in neurotherapy including behavioral therapy for neuromodulation, medical, rehabilitation, interventional neurological and surgical treatments.
4. Basic knowledge of neurology, pathology and their etiology; in addition to clinical criteria including symptoms and signs, normal history, diagnosis of neurological cases and making the treatment plan.
5. Rehabilitation for the treatment of neurological patients and pathophysiology and principles of brain death declaration.
6. Basic skills in mental status examination, including tests and standard tests of cortical function. Further, it includes comatose patient examination, eye nerves examination and motion sickness test, etc.
7. Neurological medical imaging, EEG tests and the study of nerve conduction.

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 methods of tumors treatment by radiation through using ionized radiation (such as high-voltage x-rays or radionuclides) in the treatment of cancer.

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

1. Diagnosis and assessment including reviews and instructions of any of the diseases that require using radiotherapy.
2. Basic principles of radiation physics, radiobiology, and radiation safety.
3. Clinical assessment and determining the stages of patients with cancer.
4. Role of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
5. Importance of taking multiple and different approaches between medical specialties for the treatment of malignant tumors.
6. The process through which treatment plans are made. This includes understanding the tumor size, considerations of normal histology, and normal history of the disease.
7. Implementation and verification of radiotherapy plans for patient with cancer.

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.