“Khalifa Medicine” grants citizen students a monthly salary of 27 thousand dirhams

Khalifa University of Science announced that the College of Medicine, which it recently launched on the university’s campus in Abu Dhabi, provides full scholarships to citizens and expatriates, in addition to other benefits, including a monthly salary of 27 thousand dirhams for citizen students, full tuition fees, and support for attending educational events locally and internationally. Accommodation at the university is free of charge (subject to availability), in addition to the provision of textbooks by the university, while scholarships for international students include full tuition fees, and financial support. To attend educational events locally and internationally, and to live at the university at no cost (subject to availability), in addition to providing textbooks.

The College of Medicine at Khalifa University is the first of its kind in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, which combines engineering and medicine, noting that it will be available to enroll for national and expatriate students, and it is expected that no tuition costs will be imposed so far. Whether for Emiratis or expatriates.

The university explained, in its response to Emirates Today’s inquiries, that the system of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the university adopts the American “4+4” system, which is four years of bachelor’s degree and then four years of medicine, and therefore one of its conditions is the medicine and health sciences program at “Khalifa University.” The student applying for study must have a bachelor’s degree in one of the sciences or engineering specializations, in addition to the requirement of passing the “M-CAT” test approved for studying medicine.

She pointed out that for students enrolled in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences as holders of bachelor’s degrees, the graduates will dream of a “Doctor of Medicine” certificate, which is a postgraduate certificate for medicine, pointing out that a graduate of the Medicine and Health Sciences program from Khalifa University can study master’s and doctoral programs in parallel to his studies. Medicine program, where the College of Medicine and Health Sciences intends to offer master’s and doctoral programs in medicine and health sciences, so that students can study them or choose master’s and doctoral programs in biomedical engineering, for example.

The university announced, in a press conference, that the academic program at the College of Medicine will launch in August 2019, and is expected to include 50 medical students who will graduate in May 2023, noting that the rate of applications for admission from qualified citizens is expected to increase, as work will be done to increase the number of teaching staff. To accommodate all applicants for admission.

Required documents

Khalifa University stated that the documents required for admission to the pre-med program include a copy of a bachelor’s degree (preferably in the field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics), with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0), and an IELTS certificate with a score of 6.5. In addition to a personal statement, a copy of the CV, in addition to letters of support from specialists, one of whom must be a faculty member at the university where the student graduated.