College of Medicine, Alfaisal University- Riyadh

About
Alfaisal University was founded by the highly reputed King Faisal Foundation in 2002 as one of the first Private Non-Profit, research and teaching universities in the Kingdom committed to achieving international standards of excellence. It has the support of national and international co-founders and distinguished Board Members that have continually supported the university in its mission to remain a student -centered institution committed to research.

Alfaisal University is made up of four faculties, spanning from Business, Engineering, Medicine, Science and General Studies offering world-class marketable undergraduate and graduate programs to the finest male and female students in the Kingdom and the Region. Located in the heart of Riyadh, the centre for commerce, industry and research, Alfaisal offers its students opportunities to develop their full potential with outstanding facilities, inspirational academics and research-led teaching that will enable our students to leave us as highly skilled, well-developed individuals able to make the transition into the workplace easily.

A word from HRH Prince Khalid Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz
HRH Prince Khalid Al Faisal bin AbdulazizWithin the framework of its caring for human development, which is the most important basic factor in total development, King Faisal Foundation extends its projects in serving education through King Faisal Schools, Prince Sultan College of Tourism and Management, Effat College, in addition to Scholarship Programs. Today it presents Alfaisal University as a contemporary Arab academic university that has international scientific affiliations with similar institutions. Alfaisal uses its expertise to develop educational techniques and provide appropriate mechanisms to mobilize the wisdom of the Creator of the human mind's abilities in order to innovate and upgrade life.

It is obvious that the main handicap that retards Arab societies, in general, is the low quality of education and the inability of its prevailing systems and means - such as prompting and keeping by heart - to qualify humans to be able to advance a society pursuant to a scientific rule that adopts contemporary means and technology, and to fulfill the urgent need for training the educated on thinking so as to reach the right decision.

It is illogical to confine the mission of upgrading education to the State alone. It is unfair to the State and to the investment in the human element that serves society as a whole. All of society must stand shoulder to shoulder to carry out this mission.

Therefore, the aim of this University is to provide the student with the educational level he seeks abroad, to be an example for voluntary work which the private sector can contribute to the development of our homeland, and, at the same time, to employ its abilities and research centers to serve society, and to build bridges to the most advanced international sites in educational techniques and tools.

Affiliations
Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI):Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI)
Alfaisal University signed a ten year agreement with PHMI to provide consultations, review course materials and work together on curricular development as well as academic programs.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
A committee of senior professor from MIT was formed to design the Engineering program

International Space University (ISU):
International Space UniversityAlfaisal university signed a memorandum of understanding with ISU to develop relationships internationally and to share knowledge

King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH)King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH):
King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH)King Faisal Specialist Hospital Alfaisal university signed 5 year agreement with (KFSH) to include training, research and studies.

CambridgeCambridge:
A committee of senior professors from Cambridge was formed to design the Engineering program

King Abdul-Aziz city for Science and Technology (KACST):
King Abdul-Aziz city for Science and TechnologyAlfaisal University signed an agreement with KACST to share research expertise, laboratories and facilities

Saudi Organization for Industrial Estate and Technology Zones (SOIETZ):
Alfaisal University signed an MOU with (SOIETZ) to collaborate on research and achieve common goals. The two parties will work together to support industrial Saudi Organization for Industrial Estate and Technology Zones clusters and specialized research in such areas as seawater desalination, petrochemicals industry, and other industries strategically important to the Kingdom.

French Aerospace company (THALES)French Aerospace company (THALES):French Aerospace company (THALES)French Aerospace company
Alfaisal university collaborated with (THALES) to design Programs for college of Business

Baud Telecom Company (BTC) :
Baud Telecom CompanyAlfaisal university signed a memorandum of understanding with (BTC) to design and implement the IT infrastructure and provide networking active components

Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC):
Alfaisal university signed a memorandum of understanding with (SWCC) to form a coordination committee represented equally by both parties in order to organize, Saline Water Conversion Corporationmanage and supervise parties' collaborative projects and research

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Alfaisal University Introduction