About
In 2010, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) continued its challenging journey of transformation, with the goal of turning its hospitals into true Academic Health Centers. HMC is seeking, as an organization, to evolve into a thriving Academic Health System that links together health, education and research, powered by the synergies between itself and its academic partners.
This highly ambitious partnership is carried out in close collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and other academic partners in Qatar and internationally.
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Foreword from key medical academic leader
Dr. Steven A. Wartman, President and CEO, Association of Academic Health Centers, Washington DC, USA
In the education realm, recognition of the need for substantive curricular change is growing. For example, the new 'Genes to Society' curriculum at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine includes a special 'societal component' that emphasizes how individual patient phenotypes may affect the family or community.
Dean's foreword
Dr. Javaid Sheikh
Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Qatar has a visionary leadership with a clear commitment to transform it into a knowledge-based society by 2030. Very specific milestones in human, social, economic, and environmental domains have been targeted to achieve this vision.
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