400 students and staff from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) descended on the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain for the annual Winter Ball.
Traditionally one of the most popular events on the universitys social calendar, the Winter Ball is a chance for students to take a break from their studies, dust off their glad rags and put them to good use.
This years gala event was Venetian Masquerade-themed and featured a live band and DJ as well as prize draws and a photobooth.

150 students at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) yesterday celebrated their transition to clinical training during the annual White Coat Ceremony at the Busaiteen campus.
Regarded as a seminal moment in the course of medical training and future careers, the ceremony is a symbolic event based around the presentation of the students white coats and takes place in the Intermediate Cycle stage.
Yesterdays event featured an address by RCSI Bahrains Head of School of Medicine, Professor Joe McMenamin, who highlighted the significance of wearing the white coat and the responsibility associated with it. His message to the students on being a good doctor was; "Dont just hear what your patients say to you but listen to what they say."

Guest speakers were Bahrain Medical Society General Secretary, Dr Manaf Al Qahtani, who advised students about professionalism, empathy and compassion as doctors, and RCSI Bahrain Senior Cycle student, Maryam Fareed Ashoor, who outlined her own experiences and what might lie ahead for her peers.

The ceremony concluded with the students recital of the professional declaration, through which they vowed to maintain professional attitudes and behaviours in work and relationships with classmates, teachers, patients and the community.

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The Ritz-Calrton Bahrain Hotel poolside once again provided a beautiful backdrop for the RCSI Bahrains annual Talent Show.
Run by RCSI Bahrains Student Council in conjunction with the Student Services Office, the Talent Show is the perfect showcase for students varied and often previously-hidden talents.
This years event featured a total of 18 performances, including those by guitarists, keyboard and ukulele players, rappers, singers, speakers, an acapella group and a stand-up comedian.
The musical duet of Majda Shanta and Asad Chisti was announced as the winner of the event for their by the judging panel of RCSI Bahrain Head of Quality Enhancement, Dr Kathy Strachan, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Stephen Harrison-Mirfield and his wife, Lucy.

RCSI Bahrain this week presented a cheque for over BD1200 to the Bahrain Red Crescent (BRC) Society.
The money was raised primarily through events organised as part of RCSI Bahrains second annual Health Week, which took place last month, but also included contributions by several other student clubs and societies and charity projects.
The cheque was presented to BRC Secretary General, Dr Fawzi Amin, by RCSI Bahrains Chief Operating Officer (COO), Stephen Harrison-Mirfield and will be directed towards providing dignity kits to displaced people, both locally and regionally, in crisis situations.
Launched by the SRC team in 2015 with the aim of promoting healthy lifestyle among staff and students, RCSI Bahrains Health Week programme falls in line with the universitys overall objective of advancing human health in Bahrain.

RCSI Bahrain staff and students this week generated 39 units of blood for donation to the Central Blood Bank as part of its regular blood donation drive.
That figure means that the university has donated a total of 288 units of blood since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Blood Bank back in 2012.
The next blood drive, organised by the universitys Community Engagement department, is set to take place in the next academic year.

RCSI Bahrain this week welcomed His Excellency Simon Martin CMG, British Ambassador to The Kingdom of Bahrain, for a tour of the campus and a meeting with the Executive Committee.
COO Stephen Harrison-Mirfield conducted the tour before Ambassador Martin met with President, Professor Sameer Otoom to discuss the universitys ongoing activities.
Previously the Deputy Private Secretary to Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, Ambassador Martin joined the UKs Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1984 and served in London, Rangoon, Budapest and Prague, in a number of policy and commercial roles, before being appointed Her Britannic Majestys Ambassador to The Kingdom of Bahrain in September 2015.
The visit coincides with a series of celebrations taking place across Bahrain on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of relations between Bahrain and the UK and follows on from RCSI Bahrains participation in a special symposium organised by the Higher Education Council last month to promote collaborations with UK institutions.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) yesterday hosted a special event aimed at introducing its nursing cohort to future career opportunities.

Organised by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, in collaboration with the Careers and Alumni Office, the annual Nursing Careers Day attracted nursing students and graduates.

Attendees were welcomed to the event by RCSI Bahrains Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor Joe McMenamin, before the programme got underway with a presentation on Expanding and Extending your Nursing Career by Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Seamus Cowman.

The keynote speech was delivered by special guest, Professor Hester Klopper, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FUNDISA, the South African not-for-profit organisation established to improve nursing education and excellence in nursing scholarship.

Entitled The 21^st Century Nurse, Professor Klopper focused on the latest changes and challenges facing the nursing industry.

Among other speakers on the day were RCSI Bahrain Associate Professor in Nursing and Director for Masters in Nursing programme, Maura Pidgeon; RCSI Bahrain Head of Community Engagement, Julie Sprakel, and National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) Allied Medical Profession Consultant, Namat Al Subaie.

RCSI Bahrain alumni Hanan Nabeel Ahmed Ali; Noor Munther; Lulwa Ali Al-Muqla and Khaled Abdulaziz Fares Alhusain also spoke to contemporaries about their respective careers in nursing in Bahrain since their graduation.

The final presentation saw Tamkeen Community Advisor Mohamed Ali introduce a host of local programmes to help employability.

The hosting of this, the universitys seventh Nursing Careers Day, comes in the wake of the Supreme Council for Health confirming its patronage of the Positive Promotion of Nursing campaign, to be run in conjunction with RCSI Bahrain and other healthcare facilities and ministries.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

89 future doctors graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) yesterday following the seventh annual Conferring Ceremony, held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

His Highness Sheikh Ali Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, attended the event on behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, alongside RCSI Bahrain staff, stakeholders, special guests, dignitaries, government officials, students families and senior representatives of RCSI in Dublin.

On the occasion of the ceremony, His Highness Shaikh Ali congratulated the graduates and their families on their momentous achievements and confirmed that healthcare is an important sector for the Bahraini government, in terms of increasing the standards of living and levels of investment.

He added that His Royal Highness the Prime Minister is committed to supporting efforts to develop the healthcare sector, including building new hospitals and health centres, advancing healthcare services and attracting the best international medical institutions and faculty, as part of the overall vision of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Shaikh Ali went on to praise RCSI for its contribution to the healthcare sector in Bahrain through its academic expertise and the development of Bahraini nursing and medical graduates of the highest calibre, which will reflect positively on the quality of healthcare services in the Kingdom.

In accepting their awards from RCSI President, Mr Declan Magee, and RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom, yesterdays graduates received degrees from RCSI Bahrain and the National University of Ireland (NUI), as well as licentiates from the Royal college of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) and RCSI.

In his address, Mr Magee congratulated the graduates on their achievements and praised the ongoing relationship between RCSI and the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Professor Otoom also took the opportunity to congratulate the graduates and extended his gratitude to the friends and family members who had supported them in their achievements, while NUI Registrar, Dr Attracta Halpin, also paid tribute.

The Conferring Ceremony also provided an opportunity to recognise students for exceptional performances throughout their undergraduate training and yesterday proved to be a momentous occasion for Maryam Fareed Ashoor, who won the three main specialist prizes on offer.

The 24-year-old Bahraini received the James Finucane Prize in Medicine, the John Murphy Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Niall OHiggins Prize in Surgery, marking the first occasion that all three prizes have been won by the same student.

Dr Ashoor also presented the 2016 Valedictorian address.

The Clinical Lecturer Award for Medicine, as voted by the graduating class, was presented to Dr Dalal Alromaihi, Consultant Endocrinologist at King Hamad University Hospital.

Yesterdays ceremony brought to more than 1,100, the number of RCSI Bahrain graduates since the inaugural Conferring ceremony back in 2010.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

The subject of transnational education came under the spotlight during a special symposium hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) recently.

Referring to the provision of education qualifications from institutions in one country to students in another, transnational education has been at the forefront of RCSI Bahrains strategic development since it first opened its doors in 2004.

Organised by the universitys School of Postgraduate studies and Research, the symposium featured presentations by a number of locally-based and international experts.

RCSI Bahrain Vice President for Academic Affairs and Head of School of Medicine, Professor Joe McMenamin kicked off proceedings by discussing the role of RCSI as a global leader in transnational education, before Association of Medical Schools of Europe President, Professor Peter Dieter spoke about the European experience of convergence and diversity of medical education curriculum.

RCSI Bahrains Head of Student Development and Wellbeing, Dr Wendy Maddison looked at the shaping of so-called glocal students, while Professor Hossam Hamdy from the University of Qatar covered the development of a curriculum with a new world of global education.

The Association of Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR) President, Professor Ibrahim Al Alwan, discussed ways that EMRO countries could cope with a diverse curriculum before RCSI Bahrain Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Seamus Cowman, tackled the impact of transnational education on allied health professionals and nursing.

Attracting attendees from RCSI Bahrains faculty and external stakeholders, the event provided an opportunity to discuss changes occurring around educational curriculum and the challenges of transnational education and concluded with a panel discussion.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

As an advocate of transnational education, RCSI Bahrain awards undergraduate medicine and nursing degrees from both its own institution and from RCSI in Dublin.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) recently hosted His Excellency, Dato’ Ahmad Shahizan Abd Samad, Malaysian Ambassador, to its Busaiteen campus.

During the visit, which was organised in line with efforts to promote bilateral relations between Bahrain and Malaysia in the field of higher education and medical education, the ambassador met with RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom, and enjoyed a tour of the facilities.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) recently launched its first Peer Observation of Teaching (POT) programme.

More than 20 members of RCSI Bahrains academic staff attended the sessions, which were organised by the universitys Professional Development Unit (PDU), in collaboration with the Health Professions Education Centre at RCSI in Dublin.

A collaborative and reciprocal process whereby one peer observes anothers teaching (actual or virtual) and provides supportive and constructive feedback, POT is a means of encouraging continued professional development in teaching and learning through critical reflection.

Increasingly recognised as a valuable support tool for academics in higher education settings to evaluate and develop their teaching, the process has enjoyed steady growth around the world in recent years.

The first programmes at RCSI Bahrain were conducted by RCSI Curriculum Innovator, Dr Martina Crehan, who travelled from Dublin.

A pilot study for the implementation of a peer observation of teaching programme was first carried out by RCSIs Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Zena Moore and Quality Enhancement Executive, Anne Weadick.

The study aimed to establish academic staff perceptions of peer observation of teaching, to implement a pilot of peer observation of teaching and to evaluate the impact of the project, through capturing the experience of both the reviewer and the lecturer reviewed.

Based on the results of this study, a POT working group was established and policy guidelines, and support resources in relation to feedback processes, templates, and reflective practice were developed.

The launch of the POT programme at RCSI Bahrain falls in line with the universitys strategic pillar of Teaching and Learning.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) yesterday (Sunday) marked the official opening of its refurbished and renamed centre of physical and social activity.

The Hub - formerly known as the Sports and Recreation Centre - has undergone extensive development over the summer break, in the wake of unprecedented levels of footfall and participation in activities at the facility.

As part of the refurbishment, the Hub has introduced state-of-the-art spinning bikes, a volleyball court, a PlayStation/X-Box game-zone as well as newly-designed areas that provide dedicated Chill-Out, Work-Out and Time-Out space.

These additions compliment the fully-equipped male and female gymnasiums, Crossfit box, studio rooms, - all of which have recently been revamped to accommodate the needs of the most advanced user - 900-square meter multipurpose sports hall, one of the best basketball courts in Bahrain and the adjacent, full-size, outdoor 4G sports field already in place.

Home to the universitys competitive sports teams, the Hub is supported by locally-based companies DHL, Euromotors and RCSI Travel and also hosts a Sadad services payment machine, a DHL service point and its very own outlet of Gloria Jeans Coffees.

The universitys ever-expanding sports and fitness activity schedule - led by highly-qualified in-house trainers Adam Wallace, Alana McConalogue and Kazzafi Ansari - is open to all students and staff members.

As one of the regions leading healthcare institutions, RCSI Bahrain is committed to combining successful academic achievements with healthy lifestyle and provides a full programme of extracurricular fitness and sporting activities that falls in line with the overall objective of advancing human health in Bahrain and further afield.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) this week played host to its annual Clubs and Societies Fair at its Busaiteen campus.

Held annually at the start of the academic year, the event is one of the biggest in RCSI Bahrain’s student calendar and offers a chance for established clubs and societies to showcase their activities and attract more members, while for new students, it is an opportunity to get a taste of the extracurricular activities the university has to offer.

This year’s event saw a record number of more than 40 existing and prospective clubs and societies canvass the student body of over 1,200 full-time medicine and nursing students Alongside the long-standing organisations, including the Football and Basketball Clubs, Medical and Nursing Societies, new clubs and societies such as the Eastern Cultural Society, the Running Club, Ping Pong Club and Psychiatry Society will be hoping to have attracted sufficient numbers of members to be awarded full club/society status by the university.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

As one of the region’s leading healthcare institutions, RCSI Bahrain is committed to combining successful academic achievements with a full programme of extracurricular and sporting activities.

Professor Sameer Otoom, RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Joe McMenamin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor Ciaran OBoyle, Director Institute of Leadership and Dr Michael Shannon, Director of the Institute of Leadership Programmes - RCSI Bahrain, welcomed 70 Masters Students who are undertaking hosted Masters Programmes in Healthcare Management and Quality & Safety in Healthcare Management.
The programmes offer a wide range of leadership development encompassing education, competencies and development for healthcare and management staff focusing on core components of leadership, management and quality & safety in healthcare management. Critically, the programmes affords students opportunities to explore and analyse complex leadership, organisational and managerial challenges and deploy a broad range of tools to identify, assess and implement solutions to enable leadership and quality within and across healthcare.
Students attending these programmes represent Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Policy, Administration and Health Insurance. A distinct asset of these Masters programmes is a strong focus on the of multi-professional teams and learning from the variety of disciplines represented on the various programmes.
Dr Michael Shannon highlighted the supportive atmosphere that is facilitated by the Institutes of Leadership staff that fosters the students leadership and management development through evidenced based practice, reflection, dialogue, advocacy and enquiry. Dr Shannon thanked Professor Sameer Otoom and Professor Joe McMenamin and RCSI Bahrain staff for supporting the Institute of Leadership programmes.

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) Department of Surgery Chairman and King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH) Chief of Staff, Professor Martin Corbally, recently presented the prestigious ‘State of the Art Lecture at of Ireland’s largest surgical symposia.

The 41st Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium took place at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and Professor Corbally delivered one of two centre-piece lectures, alongside Professor Michael Solomon from the University of Sydney. The Sir Peter Freyer Meeting commemorates one of Irelands foremost Urologists who described a trans-vesicle prostatectomy in 1900 and is an important annual event for surgeons at all levels.

Prof Corbally’ s presentation, entitled; ‘ The Surgeon in the Modern World’ covered the delivery of the Irish Service, the regulation of the profession by the Irish Medical Council and his altruistic work in Vietnam and Tanzania. 

The speech outlined a number of issues of importance to both national and international practice and featured acknowledgements of his colleagues here at RCSI Bahrain and KHUH.

For his contribution, Professor Corbally was presented with the Sir Peter Freyer State of the Art Lecture Medal at the banquet dinner.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) celebrated the tenth anniversary of the establishment of its School of Nursing and Midwifery, under the patronage of Her Excellency, Dr Aysha Buaneq, Ministry of Health Undersecretary.

A cake-cutting ceremony marked the start of a series of events taking place over the course of the academic year to celebrate this momentous occasion and to promote a positive professional nursing agenda in Bahrain.

The cake-cutting was attended by Dr Buaneq and fellow representatives of the Ministry of Health, Bahrain Defence Force – Royal Medical Services and King Hamad University Hospital alongside RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom; Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Seamus Cowman, colleagues and students.

The university established its School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2006, with a primary aim of growing the base of indigenous nursing talent in Bahrain and, since then, has graduated over 800 nurses, through its BSc (Hons) Nursing, BSc Nursing Bridging and Masters in Nursing programmes.

RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom, emphasized that these accomplishments would have not been possible without the continuous support that the university receives from the government to its various healthcare programmes, and to all of its partners in the private sector. He also stressed on his thanks and gratitude to his Royal Highness Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, for his patronship of RCSI Bahrain’s conferring ceremony that is going to take place at the end of the month and is going to be the 7^th conferring ceremony for nursing and postgraduate studies students.

The upcoming November Conferring Ceremony will be a particularly significant day for the school, as it will feature the university’s biggest ever cohort of over 150 nursing graduates.

Successful students graduate from the School of Nursing and Midwifery with degrees from both RCSI Bahrain and the National University of Ireland and our graduates become work-ready and confident nurses who can meet the needs of their patients and the health services.  

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

Under the patronage of the Supreme Council for Health Chairman, His Excellency, Lieutenant General Dr Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) played joint-host to an international research conference in collaboration with King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH).

Replacing the university’s previous Annual Research Day event, the KHUH/RCSI Bahrain International Research Conference is the first such joint-venture by the two organisations.

Taking place over two days, the conference began with a scientific session at the KHUH campus on Wednesday, featuring oral presentations and followed by the presentation of the Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Khalifa Research Prizes.

Day two was hosted at the adjacent RCSI Bahrain campus, with a series of educational workshops on the subjects of i) Scientific Writing; ii) How to do Research and iii) Importance of Research Ethics, before a further scientific session through the afternoon.

State-of-the-art lectures have been delivered by international speakers, Professor Hilliard Jason and Professor Jane Westberg, Clinical Professors of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver; Professor, Teresa Pawlikowska, Health Professions Education Centre Director, RCSI, Dublin and Dr Salman Al Sabah, Director of Surgical Research and Consultant Surgeon Al-Amiri Hospital and Royale Hayat Hospital, Kuwait.

Over 200 staff, students, healthcare professionals and VIP guests attended the event over the course of the two days, when research from around the GCC as well as from the US, China, Japan, Ireland and Australia, was presented.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) celebrated its biggest ever Conferring Ceremony under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

More than 200 students graduated from undergraduate courses in nursing and medicine, as well as the RCSI Bahrain-hosted Institute of Leaderships (IOL) Masters in Healthcare Management and Masters in Quality Safety and Healthcare Management. Other students were awarded Membership of RCSI and Membership of RCSIs Faculty of Dentistry, in the presence of her Excellency Faeqa bint Saeed Alsaleh, Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Bahrain, attending on behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

Among those, were 150 candidates from undergraduate, bridging and masters programmes in nursing, marking the universitys biggest ever cohort of nursing graduates on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the launch of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The event was attended by RCSI Bahrain staff, stakeholders, special guests, dignitaries, government officials, students families and senior representatives of RCSI in Dublin. In accepting their awards from RCSI President, Professor John Hyland, and RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom, yesterdays graduates received degrees from RCSI Bahrain and the National University of Ireland (NUI).

Professor Otoom took the opportunity to congratulate the graduates and extended his gratitude to the friends and family members who had supported them in their achievements.

The valedictorian address was delivered by nursing graduate, Narjes Ashkanani, who was also awarded the BSc (Hons) Nursing Gold Medal.

Yesterdays ceremony brought to more than 1,300, the number of RCSI Bahrain graduates since the inaugural Conferring ceremony back in 2010.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) celebrated Bahrains 45th National Day and the 17^th anniversary of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifas ascension to the throne with a gathering of students and staff at the Busaiteen campus.

During the event, a photo archive of Bahrain from the past to the present was screened and attendees were introduced to aspects of Bahrains traditions through a traditional breakfast in a specially-designed setting.

The event commenced with a group photo of the attendees forming the number 45, in recognition of Bahrains 45^th National Day.

Speaking on the occasion, RCSI Bahrain President, Professor Sameer Otoom, extended his congratulations on behalf of the university to His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, His Royal Highness the Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister and to the people of Bahrain on the Kingdoms National Day.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.

Learning Systems and Technologies Coordinator, Sami Abid, and Nursing Lecturer, Eman Fateel, have been named as the winners of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain’s (RCSI Bahrain) annual Dean’s Awards for 2016.

The winners were announced during RCSI Bahrain’s annual staff dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel, where each was presented with a commemorative award and a prize of BD500, by RCSI Bahrain Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Head of School of Medicine, Professor Joe McMenamin.

Speaking on the occasion, Professor McMenamin offered his personal congratulations.

“I am honoured and privileged to acknowledge the contribution of all staff members to support the universitys commitment to excellence in education, research and service.  The ethos behind the Deans Award scheme is to recognise and celebrate these exceptional achievements. 

“I would like to congratulate Sami and Eman for their outstanding service to the University and I am delighted to announce them as the deserving winners of the Deans Awards 2016.”

Created in 2011 as a way of acknowledging the diverse and essential contributions of all staff members, the Dean’s Award scheme is open to nominations from all full-time staff.

The dinner event also provided an opportunity for RCSI Bahrain to acknowledge the contribution of long-standing staff members, Dr Bindhu Nair; Fatima Al-Hannan; Dr Wendy Maddison; Jovi Mallonga; Danah Smith; Dr Hussain Ali Nasaif; Catherine Abou-Zaid; Rabab Al Mouqahwi; Ahmed Al Mousawi; Manal Al Hashimi; Shini Thomas; Dr Amal Al-Gallaf; Jannat Al-Shaiba; Mohammed Yousif; Mansoor PV; Oman Kuttan Narayanan; Servillano Dizon and Dr Sireen Al-Aradi.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.