About the department

 Department of Medicine is the largest clinical department at King Khalid University Hospital. It comprises more than 50 full-time physicians, 100+ residents and fellows and approximately 200 allied health personnel distributed over 10 divisions. Each month, physicians in the department care for more than 6600 patients on an outpatient basis, admit 55 patients to our hospital services and perform around 600 procedures. The Department is organized into Division (Units), each headed by a Division Head. Department divisions are Endocrinology, General Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hematology & Oncology, Infections Disease, neurology, Respiratory, Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine, as well as Sleep Medicine. The major mandate of the Divisions is to bring together Department members within their respective discipline to create small cohesive and integrated clinical, research and educational program.