Speciality Requirements Student must complete 45 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
540160	Practical Training	0
" Clinical training in a family medicine residency program provides comprehensive, hands-on experience in delivering primary care across various settings. Residents engage in direct patient care, diagnosing and managing a wide range of medical conditions, and developing skills in preventive care, chronic disease management, and acute illness treatment. The training includes rotations in outpatient clinics, inpatient wards, and specialty areas, ensuring exposure to diverse patient populations and medical scenarios. Residents also gain experience in patient-centered communication, care coordination, and multidisciplinary teamwork. This training aims to develop well-rounded family physicians equipped to provide high-quality, continuous care to individuals and families."
540161	Clinical Research Methods	3
This academic course aims to provide training in the essential skills of preparing for conducting and communicating research in medical science. Clinical research is a branch of medical science that determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products, and treatments intended for human use. These may be used for prevention, treatment, diagnosis or for relief of symptoms in a disease. This course presents the steps of research process including specification of a research problem, review of literature, clarifying research designs, population and sampling, measurement/qualitative evaluation, data collection and data analysis. Ethical issues will be considered related to the development and application of research. The emphasis is on the practical ways of conducting clinical and health research and conducting basic research projects. Residents will practice writing a study proposal.
540162	Medical Ethics	3
This course discusses the general knowledge of medical ethics with emphasis on the philosophical and legal basis of this science in Palestine. Residents will apply ethical principles to their medical practice, discuss how to approach to ethical dilemmas in primary care, and gain practical skills in clinical reasoning and decision making through the use of ethical principles and frameworks.
540163	Health Management	3
This academic course provides an overview of how health institutions are organized; health services are planned and driven. Issues regarding the role of the management staff, physicians, nurses and other clinical and support staff in these organizations, and the management systems designed for their efficient and effective operation will be discussed. Management styles, leadership, planning and financing of healthcare facilities, quality of care improvement, measurement of performance and evidence based practice will be reviewed. Health care management problems will be analyzed from multiple perspectives.
540171	Introduction to Family Medicine	2
This course introduces the resident to the family medicine specialty. S/He will learn communication skills and approaches to problem solving and management in the primary care setting.
540172	General Surgery and Emergency	2
Surgery and emergency clinical rotations and the academic course provide the resident with the knowledge and skills to deliver a broad range of services, and to diagnose and refer patients with surgical problems encountered in the PHC setting.
540173	Obstetrics and Gynecology	2
The Obstetrics/Gynecology clinical rotations and the academic course provide residents with knowledge and skills relevant to Family Medicine, including the assessment management of common Obstetrical and Gynecological problems, and the initial assessment of problems that may need to be referred.
540181	Pediatrics	3
The pediatric clinical rotations and the academic course provide the knowledge, skills and attitudes for the resident to be competent in the initial assessment and management of the normal growth and development for infants, children and adolescents. In addition, the resident will be competent to address pediatric problems with emphasis on those most common in primary care, and an approach to the sick infant, child and adolescent.
540182	Internal Medicine	3
The Internal medicine clinical rotations and the academic course provide the resident with the knowledge and skills necessary to be competent in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic medical diseases of the adult population and appropriate preventive screenings.
540183	Basic Specialties for family Medicine	2
This experience prepares the resident to be competent in the initial assessment and management of common ophthalmology problems , common dermatologic problems , diagnosis and treat common musculoskeletal problems for children and adults, common ENT conditions ,which are encountered in primary health care practice.S/he will be familiar with the contribution of specialists and subspecialists in so that s/he makes appropriate and timely referrals.
540184	Psychiatry	2
Psychiatric clinical rotations and the academic course provide residents with the knowledge, skills and attitude to deliver a broad range of services and make clinical decisions related to common psychiatric problems encountered in the PHC setting and make appropriate referrals when necessary.
540185	Community Medicine	3
This academic course broadens the resident's understanding of the role of community medicine in disease prevention and promoting health at community level. The resident appreciates his/her role as a physician recognizing and identifying health problems of the community, applying preventive and control measures at the individual and community levels. The resident will work as a member of the health team within the health care delivery system in Palestine and perform data collection, analysis and interpretation of health related data to be used in assessment of health statuses bearing in mind the community culture and traditions
540186	Elective Rotation	0
540191	Family Medicine I	4
This academic and clinical experience further develops the resident's skills as a family medicine specialist. S/He will learn refine communication skills and approaches to problem solving and management in a primary care setting.
540192	Family Medicine II	7
This academic and clinical experience integrates current biomedical, psychological and social understanding of health in caring for patients using a holistic approach with attention to prevention. The family physician provides initial, continuing comprehensive, and coordinated care for individuals, families and communities. Further development of the principles of family medicine, clinical knowledge and skills will help the resident practice as an effective family physician. S/he will further develop effective communication skills to establish a relationship with the patient and a person-centered approach to care. This style of consultation is unique to Family Medicine.
540193	Research Project	6
In this academic course, residents are trained in identifying a research question, planning, carrying out and making a scientific presentation on a self-chosen subject in the field of family medicine and primary health care. This prepares them for doing future research the critiquing the research of others.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 3 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
540164	Clinical Nutrition	3
540165	Applied Epidemiology	3
The academic course will introduce students to Epidemiology, the basic science of disease prevention and an important tool in both public health and clinical medicine. The learner will understand how to use principles of epidemiology in prevention strategies, measuring public health policies and describing the diseases in communities (descriptive epidemiology) and epidemiological study design, bias, confounding, and measures of risk used in the study of disease etiology and related risk factors (analytic epidemiology).Special attention is paid to the most relevant issues such as outbreak investigation, screening, and surveillance.