The Department of Clinical Education is one of the largest departments at the College of Medicine and the first experience for students and female students with the program after their success in the preparatory year.

The department is rich with many competencies specialized in clinical education and holds weekly meetings throughout the academic year.

The department is structured from 3 main units. The Medical Curriculum Unit, which deals with adjusting and updating specifications of courses and formulating educational problems, making the learning experience rich for students and female students in addition to supervising classrooms and schedules and following the progress of the educational process of courses from level three to eight.

The Examinations and Assessment Unit is concerned with adjusting and improving theoretical, practical, and standardized assessment processes and follows control committees and plays a key role in establishing mechanisms and holding workshops related to the latest assessment methods.

The third unit of the department is the e-Learning Unit, which supervises the training of faculty members on e-learning programs and coordinates between the college and information technology, and contributes to standardized assessments for students and female students of the program.

 

The role of the department is crucial in controlling and developing clinical education at the level of the college in accordance with the latest educational and pedagogical methods, it reviews periodically all related mechanisms and holds training workshops for all personnel of the program from faculty members throughout the year and contributes to scientific production through periodic publications on policies of education and learning, assessment and evaluation mechanisms, as well as documenting and publishing King Saud University’s experience in clinical education.



Dr. Ali Al-Aseeri

Head of Department