Doha: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has launched the Continuing Medical Education Program for the National Clinical Guidelines and for health practitioners in the State of Qatar, in cooperation between the strategic planning and performance departments, and health specialities.
The programme offers a series of educational activities for health practitioners in the form of virtual educational tours broadcast live on the information network under the title National Clinical Guidelines. Within the framework of the practical application of the programme, a scientific seminar was organised for health practitioners of various specialisations on “Anemia in Children”.
Director of the Strategic Planning and Performance Department at MoPH, Huda Amer Al Kathiri expressed her pleasure at working on launching this programme in cooperation with the Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP), saying that intensive and concerted efforts in this programme and others will provide resources and strengthen the outputs of operations in this regard and will also help in continuing the provision of an effective and advanced healthcare system to achieve the goals of the National Health Strategy.
Director of the Department of Healthcare Professions Dr. Saad Al Kaabi said the Department is keen to assist health practitioners in the State of Qatar to develop their professional performance and upgrade the level of services they provide to patients by providing medical education and continuing professional development activities, adding that it is also keen to support other departments of MoPH and its various programmes in order to achieve the Ministry’s objectives and raise the level of medical services provided in the State of Qatar.
It is noteworthy that the National Clinical Guidelines Team of the Strategic Planning and Performance Department at MoPH has supervised the development of 52 national clinical guidelines in various medical specialities, in addition to issuing special brochures for patients related to these guidelines in Arabic and English, according to the best international standards.
They have also been published on the websites of the Ministry, Qatar National Library and the Guidelines International Network. A work plan, including many educational and awareness activities for health practitioners and a number of other activities, has been drawn up, within the framework of teh Ministry’s keenness to achieve the goals for which these guidelines were developed in order to make them part of the daily practice of health practitioners in their various locations with a view to improving the quality of health care. It was also agreed with the Department of Health Professions to present a programme of continuing medical education activities to deliver the content of clinical guidelines to health practitioners in Qatar.
Based on all this, a three-year accredited continuing education programme has been established. It consists of a series of virtual educational tours / category 1 of continuing professional development activities / broadcast live and directly through the information network to be recorded and provided in the form of self-educational activities (Category 2 of CPD activities) to allow health practitioners benefit from these activities according to the time appropriate for them and educational and professional needs.
Health practitioners will be able to obtain the Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development points required to renew their professional license in Qatar by participating in these activities which may also be used to fulfil the requirements for membership of other professional institutions.
