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Professional Classification and Registration Requirements

The SCFHS has set several criteria in which accuracy and objectivity in evaluating the previous(training) and subsequent(experience)professional experience were considered, for obtaining certificates and vocational training, and for professionally evaluating the capabilities of their holders and classifying them accordingly

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Specializations Description

It is a brief indicative description that helps in defining the minimum requirements and basic competencies required for the purposes of professional classification and registration in order to clarify SCFHS's services to all beneficiary categories.

Specialization Description Cards will be reviewed periodically to ensure that they are updated according to global and local changes in the health field, and we are pleased to receive the contributions of specialists in this review through submitting feedback or participating in the periodic review workshops through this link

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91.
Pediatric Oncology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with treatment of hematological diseases and tumors of pediatrics, especially for treatment of pediatrics starting from neonates until young youth.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Cases of Leukemia and lymphomas of pediatrics and their methods of diagnosis and treatment.
  2. Cases of stem cell transplant and their complications.
  3. Cases of non-malignant hematological diseases and their methods of diagnosis and treatment.
  4. Cases of renal, nervous system, bone and tissue tumors, etc. of pediatrics and methods of their management.
  5. Side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
  6. Management of chronic and acute pains.
  7. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to pediatric tumors.
Educational Level

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 36 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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
92.
Medical Oncology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with tumors and is concerned with their diagnosis, determining their growth and development, their treatment, and how to prevent them. This includes making a treatment plan for the patient and determining the treatment objectives. Moreover, it includes all cancers and solid tumors of adults.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Diagnosis, assessment and making the complete and appropriate treatment plan including reviews and instructions of all types of tumors and their medical stages.
  2. Obtaining medical history of the patient including detailed family history of tumors, performing full clinical examination, and determining the necessary laboratory investigations and imaging to identify the diagnosis and make the appropriate treatment plan.
  3. Associated diseases related to the patient and their effect on any therapeutic intervention of tumors.
  4. Related clinical procedures including, for example, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy and performing lumbar puncture, etc.
  5. Contact with other specialties in oncology departments such as surgery, radiation and palliative therapy and pathology to make an integrated treatment plan based on the available and best resources according to evidence-based medicine.
  6. Using chemotherapy and immunotherapy and their mechanism of action. This is in addition to knowing short and long-term side effects, toxicity level and response to treatment using appropriate clinical assessment and acquaintance of multimodal treatment, including using radiation therapy and surgery.
  7. Supportive and palliative measures in tumor therapy.
  8. Complications and side effects of tumors, their treatments, acquaintance of emergency oncology cases and how to manage them and applying urgent and early intervention.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
93.
Psychiatry
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and their prevention. It includes different disturbances related to mood, emotions, behavior, cognition and understanding. Further, it includes all ages whether such disorders exist alone or along with other medical disorders.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Ability to diagnose, assess and make the complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any psychiatric disorders.
  2. Acquaintance of basic skills in applying knowledge of clinical and biological medical sciences; in addition to cases of medical jurisprudence related to psychiatry.
  3. Acquaintance of related sciences such as normal and abnormal psychology, genetics, and neurology.
  4. Making integrated psychological and social biological treatment plans for patients throughout life. Such plans will extend as the disease advances. Moreover, to determine the priorities of treatments with explaining their risks and advantages. This is in addition to the rationale of the suggested treatment.
  5. Recognizing and managing patients liable for the risk of harming oneself or others, intervening to reduce the risks, in addition to recognizing emergency psychiatric cases and managing them effectively.
  6. Methods of psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, patterns of behavioral, family and collective treatment, in addition to methods of nervous stimulation and others.
  7. Risks and advantages of complementary and alternative care methods and their effect on psychiatric care.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
94.
Pulmonology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with respiratory care, diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases for different age groups, and management of critical cases of pulmonary diseases.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Full knowledge of all theoretical sciences related to respiratory care medicine.
  2. Diagnosis, assessment, and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of pulmonary diseases.
  3. Reading and interpreting all diagnostic tests related to the respiratory system.
  4. Management of emergency and critical cases related to pulmonary diseases.
  5. Knowing all types of physiological and pathological diseases and all pulmonary diseases, how to diagnose and make treatment plans for them.
  6. Prevention of Cardiovascular diseases and promoting health.
  7. Knowing surgical and non-surgical interventions in the specialty.
Educational Level

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

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
95.
Dermatology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with diseases that involve the skin and mucous membranes. It also includes nail and hair diseases. It is concerned with the diagnosis of the same and knowing how to deal with different related clinical cases. Further, it includes, in some diseases, certain surgical interventions related to dermatological diseases.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Clinical diagnosis, assessment, and accurate description of all dermatological diseases and making a treatment plan for each of them.
  2. Dermatological symptoms of general or systemic diseases and knowing the dermatological symptoms of autoimmune diseases for different age groups.
  3. Different treatment options and medical interventions of dermatological diseases.
  4. Basic plastic sciences related to dermatology specialty and knowing the microscopic diagnosis of different dermatological diseases.
  5. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to dermatological diseases.
  6. Taking skin biopsies to diagnose some dermatological diseases.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
96.
Cardiovascular Medicine
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with cardiac health and the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. This specialty includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary heart disease, heart failure, valvular heart diseases, and physiology, etc.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions on cardiovascular diseases.
  2. Reading and interpretation of all diagnostic tests related to the heart.
  3. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to cardiovascular diseases.
  4. Dealing with emergency and critical cases related to cardiovascular diseases.
  5. CPR for all age groups.
  6. Prevention of Cardiovascular diseases and promoting health.

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Educational Level

Obtaining, after bachelor of medicine and surgery, a qualification or a clinical training program specialized for physicians that is not less than 36 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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
97.
Nephrology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with the study of normal physiological kidney functions, renal diseases, treatment of renal issues and treatment by renal replacement therapy such as dialysis and kidney transplant.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Assessment and treatment of medical complications in patients during and after hemodialysis and other treatments, understanding their causes and their prevention.
  2. Assessment of chronic hemodialysis patients and making appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic plans for each case.
  3. Assessment and treatment of medical complications in patients during and after peritoneal dialysis and other treatments, understanding their causes and their treatment.
  4. Cases of kidney transplant recipients and donors.
  5. Renal procedures including assessment of urinary sediments, hemodialysis port placement and dialysis catheter removal.
  6.  Performing urinary assessments and access placement of hemodialysis.
  7. Treatment of common complications of all procedures of renal patients.
  8. Assessment of the patient’s need for emergency renal replacement therapy and when to try to take alternative or preventive measures.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
98.
Gastroenterology
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, pancreas, gall bladder, biliary ducts and liver. 

Core Competencies

 

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Diagnosis, assessment and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any diseases related to the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, pancreas, gall bladder, biliary ducts and liver.
  2. Anatomy, physiology and pathology of GIT and liver diseases.
  3. Knowledge base of GIT and liver diseases in respect with natural history, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of main diseases.
  4. Importance of nutrition, malnutrition and compensatory nutrition and their outcomes.
  5. Knowing how to safely and accurately perform the following procedures with full understanding of their medical indications, including determining complications and their treatment: esophagoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, small intestinal and rectal biopsy, percutaneous liver biopsy and foreign body removal from the esophagus and GIT.
  6. Providing medical care for patients that suffer from abdominal pains, vomiting and chronic diarrhea.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
99.
Internal Medicine
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with internal diseases of adults. This includes applying scientific knowledge and clinical experience on diagnosis and complete care. Further, it includes promoting health and prevention of diseases.

Core Competencies

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 internal medicine.
  2. Assessment and follow-up of acute, chronic and geriatric diseases.
  3. Assessment and diagnosis of oncology cases.
  4. Protection from chronic diseases and health promotion.
  5. Biological clinical and medical sciences that are related to internal medicine sciences.
  6. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations related to internal medicine.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.
100.
Family Medicine
Specialization Summary

A specialty concerned with providing continuous healthcare for the individual and the family. The specialty relies on clinical, biological and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine includes all ages of both sexes and all diseases that involve the body organs.

Core Competencies

Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of the following:

  1. Diagnosis, assessment, and making a complete treatment plan including reviews and instructions of any organic and psychological diseases that are prevalent in the society.
  2. Providing protective care and promoting health for all family and society members. This includes vaccines and early tests to discover diseases prior to their appearance; moreover, this includes cessation of smoking, premarital tests and travel medicine.
  3. Providing continuous care for the mother and child through pregnancy follow-up, safe labor and promoting children safety.
  4. Assessment and treatment of critical or emergency cases.
  5. Assessment and treatment of patients that suffer from chronic diseases.
  6. Radiological diagnostic options and laboratory investigations.
  7. Assessment and referral of cases that require specialized care or surgical interventions. This will be after completing diagnosis and initial tests.
Educational Level

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.

Educational Field
Medicine and Surgery.

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