Dubai Medical College for Girls holds first meeting of new Faculty Board

The new Board has been created following a recent Memorandum of Understanding signed between College management and DOHMS to further enhance the reputation and skills of women graduating as doctors from DMCG. A new Executive Board was also created by this arrangement.

Chairing the first meeting, Executive Board Chairman Rashid bin Shabib extended his thanks and support to His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, UAE Minister for Trade and Industry and President of DOHMS for his backing to the staff and graduates of the College.

The Chairman also passed on the support of College Founder and President of the Board of Trustees, Haj Saeed bin Ahmed Lootah, for the new Board and its plans to further develop DMCG and help more women successfully graduate as doctors from the college that started operations in 1986.

Mr. Al Shabib added that DOHMS Chairman, His Excellency Qassim Sultan Al Banna, had pledged his support to the Memorandum of Understanding that will provide high-level practical training for students of DCMG in DOHMS hospitals across Dubai.

Executive Board Vice Chairman, Saleh Saeed Lootah, said: "DMCG is set to enter a new era for better education of our women students with new Professors and staff coming on board to enhance our reputation and build on the success of the college as a true pioneer in providing international class medical training for women doctors. Since 1991 we are very proud to have had 480 women graduate from the College."

He added that there has been excellent cooperation between the college and DOHMS in recent years with the new arrangement enhancing the clinical training that will be offered to students at DMCG.

"The Executive Board will also be doing everything it can to support the recommendations of the Faculty Board and we are grateful for their expertise and support as we move ahead in the future," added Mr. Shabib.

Executive Board members are Mr. Rashid bin Shabib, Chairman, Mr. Saleh Saeed Lootah, Vice Chairman and Mr. Yahiya Saeed Lootah, Hussain Saeed Lootah, Dr Essa Kazim and Dr Khalil Quyed.

The Faculty Board is comprised of Prof. Mohammed Galal El-Din, Dean of DMCG, Prof. Joe Muscat Baron, Dean of the Clinical College of DOHMS, Prof. Najib Mohamed Al Khajah, Prof. Fathia Ali Bayomi, Prof. Magdy Mustafa Kamel, Prof. Mahmoud Mohd Marashi, Dr Badria Al Oaar and Asst. Prof Dr Neveen Salahudin.

When established in 1986, the Dubai Medical College for Girls was the first private college recognised locally and internationally awarding a Bachelor Degree in Medicine and Surgery in the UAE.

In 1993 the college degree was given equivalence to degrees awarded by the Karachi University Medical College and the Al-Azhar Medical College of Egypt.

The British Medical Council granted recognition to the degree of MBBS awarded by the College in 1995 that means that graduates can register for work, fellowship and higher studies in the UK as well as participate in examinations of the American and Arab Boards.

In 2000 the World Health Organisation enlisted the college as one of the recognised and accredited medical schools in its edition of World Directory of Medical Schools.