Classes
Epidemiological Studies and Research Design
Course Description: The first few sessions of the course are devoted to fundamentals: incidence and prevalence; random error (p values and confidence intervals), risks, and bias. Student will then learn how to investigate an outbreak. The last sessions focus on study designs, from cohort studies to randomized trials. Students will be asked to read research articles designed to answer a clinical question and then evaluate its validity and generalizability. Course learning objectives The main objective of the course is to teach students to be critical users of research articles, not to be researchers. At the end of the course, the student should be able to: 1.Find evidence from the research literature to answer a specific clinical question 2.Evaluate the validity, and applicability of research articles to answer specific clinical questions 3.Identify and interpret some of the risk factors affecting patients and the community 4.Identify issues with regards to medical research ethics 5.Know the basics of investigating an outbreak
Evidence Based Medicine (Biostatistics)
Course Description Biostatistics is an introductory course designed for first year medical students. It covers descriptive graphical and numerical measures, probability concepts, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, two- sample t-tests, two-sample nonparametric tests, simple categorical data analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and correlation. Course Objectives The main objectives of this course include promoting self-direct learning, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities utilizing basic biostatistical techniques. At the end of this course students will be able to: -Perform basic biostatistical analysis using a statistical software, (SPSS) -Have better understanding and begin to interpret main results of medical and public health research articles -Participate in medical and public health research
Community Medicine - Primary Healthcare in the KSA
This course is planned and developed by a cooperative multi-disciplinary partnership of the College of Medicine faculty and the community-based health services providers. The course is responsive to the evolving social and health systems of Saudi Arabia. It serves medical students by providing community-centered learning experiences.
Principles of Logistics and Supply chain Management (undergraduate)
Operations Management (undergraduate)
Coop Internship (undergraduate)
Management Informarmation Systems
Course Description As information systems are increasingly taking active role in managing modern digital businesses, the needs for understanding how MIS is effectively integrated in the day-to-day operations is also increased. This can be easily seen through the penetration of IT in all business management areas such as customer management, marketing, financial analysis, production, procurements, innovations… etc. Therefore, MIS has become a crucial tool at all management levels. With this in mind, instead of focusing on pure IT aspects, the course shall emphasize on the use of information systems in managing businesses. It will provide knowledge and basic methodologies and approaches to deal with business operational needs in alignment with corporate business objectives. Furthermore, it will study how outputs from various management information systems from different operational units can be integrated to support business in identifying challenges, taking decisions, and achieving competitive advantage. Key Learning Objectives The main objective of this course are: § Increasing the students’ knowledge and progress their understanding on the role of information systems in managing modems businesses. § Prepare the students to use information systems as an integral part of business management strategy. § Upon successful completion of this course, the students will: o Understand the important of MIS concepts and dimensions in the of businesses management. o Understand the types and roles of information systems in modern businesses o Understand the models of business competitive advantage. o Acquire relevant knowledge on managing information management ethics, privacy and intellectual properties. o Develop a strategy on selecting and implemented required technology infrastructure and associated applications for business management. o Manage corporate information systems and databases as business assets and practical measures to ensure business continuity. o Introduce the concept of information security measures and how they are supported with adequate IT governance and practices. o Understand the role of management information system to support corporate ecommerce initiatives.
Course Description
This course is aimed to help our students understand and apply the analytical concepts and tools for managing operations in production of goods and services. Some of the key strategic concepts covered include improvements in operational effectiveness through cost reduction, and continuous improvements in quality, reliability, flexibility and speed of operations. This course also covers critical operations management activities, such as supply chain management, inventory deployment and control, transportation networks optimization, demand and supply planning, scheduling, project management, forecasting, and the management of quality including the principles of Lean Management and innovation. Some of the course sections will use the experimental or experiential learning approach.
Key Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Define operations and operations management.
Identify the roles and responsibilities of operations managers in different organizational contexts.
Explain the importance of effective application of the operations management principles in different contexts such as service organization and production based organizations.
Describe the main issues concerned with today’s competitive environment and their influence on managing operations.