Dubai: Applications open for residency postgraduate programmes at MBRU

Dubai: Applications open for residency postgraduate programmes at MBRU

UAE - The Deanship of Postgraduate Medical Education at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) in Dubai Academic Health Corporation (DAHC) has announced that applications are open for 18 residency postgraduate training programmes and two internship programmes in the specialties of medicine and dentistry.

In July 2021, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, established DAHC with an aim to advance health services in the emirate through a new academic system that integrates healthcare, medical education and scientific research. This year marks the first time DAHC has sought admissions for postgraduate medical training programmes offered formerly by Dubai Health Authority.

DAHC will provide as many as 18 residencies across multiple specialities including but not limited to paediatric neurology, neurosurgery, paediatrics, internal medicine, emergency medicine, as well as orthopaedics and trauma surgery programmes. It will offer 13 fellowship accredited programmes in various sub-specialties such as paediatric otolaryngology, paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, adult endocrine, child and adolescent psychiatry, and adult pulmonology.

“As residents joining Dubai’s first academic health system, they will gain a unique insight into the synergies which arise when healthcare educators, students, highly skilled practitioners, and researchers