A medical team from the university participates in the 42nd Medical education Conference in America.
At the 42nd Medical education Conference for the American Association for family medicine Teachers in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, a team from King Khalid University (KKU) has participated with a scientific paper entitled "A special study on the impact of social media on the sleep quality of the students of the Faculty of Medicine at King Khalid University." The results of paper were summarized on the use of 99.9% by medical students to social media such as Twitter and WhatsApp, while 87.4% of them suffer from the quality of sleep disorders at the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PQSI) to test the quality of sleep. Results led to the recommendation to design educational and treatment projects for quality, in addition to conducting the same studies on the remaining segments of the society.
The team also participated with another scientific paper, in cooperation with a number of entities. The paper was described as an innovation and it was entitled, "Adopting project management professionally in educational and Health projects as a model of education in medical education, which is professionally interoperable." Members of various healths, academic, technical and administrative disciplines participated in that action, including the program of Khamis Mushayt for Graduate Studies, and for family and community Medicine, King Khalid University, Assir Health Affairs, Armed Forces Hospitals program in the south, Najran University and Gulf Best Ways company.
The first paper results witnessed an improvement on the level of students' trainees' knowledge and skills, moving up from acceptable to very good in general, in the processes of the 47 management projects, according to the American Institute of Project Management (PMI), which has five main groups (Start, planning, implementation, follow-up and shutdown). Results also included recommendations to focus on the importance of teaching the principles of project management professionally in training undergraduate and graduate students to come out with educational competencies which are better in health, professional and effective leadership, based on practice-based education systems. The study recommended proposals to resolve the problems and obstacles being encounterd during the project. They included increasing training period, increasing the number of professional trainers to manage projects professionally, in addition to expanding community partnership with the private and voluntary sectors.
It is noteworthy that the participating delegation was headed by the President of the Family and Community Medicine Department at King Khalid University, Dr. Hassan Al-Mousa, and the leader of the scientific and research teams, Dr. Metruc Al Metruc, in addition to five medical students at the bachelor degree level. They are Saad Shakir, Saeed Wahabi, Majed Abu Melha, Abdullah Khaled Asiri, and Sami Al-Shehri.
