Designed to offer eligible students the opportunity of acquiring hands-on practical clinical experience, to complement academic learning, our Medical Internship Program includes clinical rotations across all H.H. the President Initiatives Hospitals (MOPA) medical facilities, namely:
- Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital- Umm Al Quwain (SKGH) – a 203-bedded General Hospital in Umm Al Quwain,
- Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital- Ras Al Khaimah (SKSH) – a 246-bedded tertiary referral hospital based in Ras Al Khaimah; and
- Sheikh Khalifa Medical City- Ajman (SKMCA) – a 220+ bedded hospital based in Ajman.
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to offer an internship program, uniquely designed, to provide medical interns with a comprehensive learning that will enhance their medical knowledge and clinical skills, and support them as they gain exposure to aspects related to professionalism, system-based learning and problem solving techniques.
Our pledge is to provide interns with a world-class training that offers the best possible experience. While making their time with us positively memorable the program will help shape the future of first class clinicians.
Program Overview
With the aim of ensuring a holistic, up-to-date medical internship experience the H.H. the President Initiatives Hospitals medical intern program has been developed and is based on recognized international standards.
The curriculum offered at H. H the President Initiatives Hospitals not only addresses core medical concepts and diverse clinical topics but also places emphasis on communication, understanding systems and quality of patient care, emotional intelligence and evidence based medicine. This program ensures that new graduates are equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence early in their careers.
Application period
- Application documents should be submitted between June 1 – June 30, 2022. Applications that are submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
Eligibility of application
- UAE nationals
- Graduates from medical schools listed in the Avicenna database (formerly the WHO Directory of Medical Schools).
Application requirements
The following documents are required to be submitted along with the application form.
(Total size of attachments should be less than 5 Mb.)
- Dean’s letter
- Latest Medical School Transcript Copy
- Application Form (Download)
- Curriculum Vitae (Download)
- Passport-sized photograph
- Passport Copy
- Emirates ID Copy
- Khulasat Qaid/Family Book Copy
- Letter of Recommendation (If any available)
- Experience Certificates (If any available)
Note
- The original copy of the application form must be submitted at the time of the entrance interview.
- Only complete applications will be accepted.
- Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
How to apply
- Applicants can ONLY send the required documents to the following e-mail address: clinicaleducation@skgh.ae
- All submitted documents will not be returned.
Selection Process
- Review of application documents
- Interns interviews
- Final acceptance
- The date and place of the entrance interview will be announced soon.
- All applicants will be notified of their selection via e-mail.
- The final acceptance will be decided by The Internship Committee.
Contact
If you have any questions about the internship program, please use the following contacts:
Training Hospital | Telephone | |
Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital | clinicaleducation@skgh.ae | +971 6 706 1108 +971 6 706 1111 Ext. 1549 |
Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital | interns.coordinator@sksh.ae | +971 7 201 0167 +971 7 201 0163 |
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Ajman | Etr.department@skmca.ae | +971 6 714 7363 +971 6 711 7777 Ext. 6363 |