ABOUT
Description:
Responsible for faculty and scientific research staff members at the college.
Vision:
Contribute to create the Faculty of Medicine a competitive environment for medical education that contributes in achieving sustainable development goals.
Mission:
The vice deanship seeks to achieve the Faculty of Medicine mission to prepare faculty members with professional competence, create a supportive environment for scientific research and graduate studies and to strengthen community partnership and quality standards.
Goals:
- Attract and support faculty members.
- Spread scientific research culture between faculty members and students and increase research production quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Prepare the necessary infrastructure to recognize the college as a training center for graduate programs and medical fellowships.
- Establish and promote international cooperation relations with the international universities to share experiences and services.
- Cooperate with international associations and organizations to support the College interests.
- Act as the concerned authority to negotiate international contracts and agreements concluded by the University.
- Represent the college and the university in international activities and forums.
- Cooperate with other faculties and departments at King Saud University and Medical City regarding international affairs and business.
- Create and maintain a database and issue periodic statements to inform the community about the international activities.
Tasks:
- Attract distinguished teaching assistants, lecturers and scholarship students.
- Support teaching assistants, lecturers and scholarship students and ensure their excellence.
- Organize teaching assistants and lecturers work in the college and the hospital until their scholarship.
- Help doctors to join research programs, residency programs and international fellowships.
- Organize teaching assistants and lecturers' scholarship and confirm the approved programs.
- Follow-up teaching assistants and lecturers progress during their scholarship and report accordingly in coordination with the departments.
- Provide moral and psychological support and counseling teaching assistants and lecturers during all stages.
- Coordinate with the vice Deanship for Graduate Studies regarding the teaching assistants and lecturers' scholarship conditions and mechanisms and their financial and job rights.
- Spread the culture of scientific research among faculty members and students.
- Increase research output and assure quality.
- Identify and support research priorities.
- Establish periodic research activities.
- Focus on faculty members and students training to improve the research and its quality.
- Hiring a distinguished teaching staff members as needed.
- Attract distinguished Saudi faculty members according to the department's needs.
- Support and train faculty members to ensure their academic, scientific, administrative and research excellence.