Students who have successfully fulfilled the specified graduation requirements will spend 12 months of clinical training, called Internship year. This year is considered an inseparable part of medical study. Medical students will not be eligible to practice the medical profession unless they successfully pass the internship year.
Objectives
The internship experience is designed for students:
To apply and refine medical knowledge through clinical training.
To act independently and master decision process making.
To coherently work with other medical team members, know their limitations and how to seek advice when needed appropriately.
To deal with patient and his relatives professionally.
To acquire non clinical skills needed by physician such as:  communication skills, presentation skills, administrative skills and others.
To apply Muslim physician code of ethics in all of his deeds and adhere to it  at all times.
Training Supervision
Training of medical interns will be supervised and assumed by an office designated as “Internship office”.
The office will be responsible for making all necessary administrative arrangements for rotation implementation, following up interns, overcoming hurdles that interns may come across, improving training level, implementing educational programs that enhance medical knowledge of interns and equip them with  the necessary skills for practicing the medical profession, conducting studies and research on internship period administration process.
The office oversees all the problems encountered by interns in their practice, and all complaints are filed with the office for action. The office accepts all petitions, on problems or observations or grievances, submitted by interns during the training.
The office is supervised by the Interns Office Supervisor, who is a teaching staff reporting to Vice Dean for Academic Affairs.
Responsibilities of an Intern
Every department must specify the medical assignment intern must accomplish during his /her training period such specification is considered an integral part of interns’ responsibility.
Intern will obtain medical history and make initial physical examination of patients, document that on the patients file, record provisional diagnosis, suggest primary investigations and treatment plan provided that the treatment plan is discussed and approved by a senior team member. Intern has to follow up the implementation of the prescribed course of treatment, obtain results of all ordered investigations, document the development of any complications that may ensue and plan discharge and follow up.
Interns have to attend and practice in all clinical rounds done by the respective department physicians. They also must participate in the scientific activities organized by the department. Intern must be encouraged to take part in the clinical research conducted by any teaching staff members of the college or by any other academic staff he is working with.
Interns must adhere to attendance code observed in the department they are assigned to.
Training Commencement Rules
No intern can start internship unless he obtains a letter from Deanship of Admission and Registration Certifying he has met all graduation requirements.
The specified commencement dates of internship year are the beginning of any Gregorian month.
Students who pass graduation requirements on dates other than those specified in the foregoing item may, and as this might cause delay in joining postgraduate studies, commence their training after obtaining the respective department approval and the approval of College Deanship.
No modification to training sites (department) is permitted once interns distribution lists are issued unless a substitute is available and respective department heads approval is obtained. Replacements are limited to the lowest possible level.
Intern may request postponement of internship for one month or more if so approved by the Internship Office. Missed rotation can be made up when all other mandatory rotations have been completed.
Evaluation
The supervising consultant, upon intern’s completion of rotation, has to prepare an evaluation report (as per the approved form) and be signed by the consultant preceptor and the College department chairman. The evaluation report will evaluate intern’s attendance, punctuality, professional ability, attitude towards patient, relationship with the team members and patients and their families.
The consultant preceptor supervising intern training or his designate must positively and constructively discuss with intern his evaluation. He must inform intern about his strong and weak points in his performance and suggest remedial plans. Intern must sign the evaluation form as an acknowledgement that he has discussed the evaluation with the preceptor. Signing the evaluation form will not be construed as an acceptance of the evaluation outcome; rather it will be viewed as a proof that the evaluation report has been discussed with him.
If the intern fails to obtain the pass rating of (60%) in his evaluation or if the department judges his overall performance to be a concern, then the department has to recommend that intern must repeat the entire or part of the rotation.
Intern will have to evaluate the department or the unit he is rotating in, and evaluate the consultant they supervised his training. He must refer this evaluation to the Internship Office which may utilize its contents to be in a better position to evaluate training and re- rotate interns.
Clerkship Rotation
Mandatory clerkship rotations :   Emergency Two months
Period at King Saud University Hospital in Riyadh is mandatory.
Training may be conducted at a hospital approved by the Saudi Council for Health Specialties.
All interns must spend at least 50% of internship period at King Saud University Hospitals. The Dean of the College may waive this condition on recommendation submitted by Internship Office.
Small group teaching:
Contents: Theoretical, Clinical, Sessions Practical
Course Objective
Course is meant to introduce Medical Students to basic history taking and examination of patients
This material will be released to the Students through:
1.     Lectures
2.     Clinical teaching sessions
3.     Clinic attendance
4.     Surgical session attendance
At the end of the course, the Medical Student should be able to recognize common pathology, manage simple cases and know when to refer more serious problems.