As part of a comprehensive program designed by Alfaisal University to provide practical experience to its students, the university sent some of its medical students abroad for a month-long stay in Temple, Texas, where they learned about research activities taking place and gained first-hand experience of high-tech surgical techniques. The Boeing Company, one of the founders of Alfaisal University, also sponsored 15 MBA students for a leadership development program that provided perspectives on effectively operating in a shifting global economy.
Alfaisal University offers a wide range of courses in its four colleges: business, engineering, medicine, and science. The courses have been designed in collaboration with distinguished international academic partners to satisfy the local and international market demands and prepare students for employment.
In July this year, 14 medical students got some hands-on training using the da Vinci Surgery System at Scott and White academic medical center in Texas.
Dr. Kristofer Wagner, director of robotics surgery at Scott and White, explained the equipment, as Dr. Timothy Ruddell, a surgical resident, worked the controls. The da Vinci system is powered by robot technology that allows the surgeon’s hand movements to be scaled, filtered and translated into precise movements of the instrument working inside the patient’s body.
Several students observed the practice procedures on the monitor used by Ruddell, while others stood next to the operating room table and watched the robotic arms make sutures. Eventually, the students were given an opportunity to practice suturing, cauterizing and cutting techniques. Scott and
White has been hosting students from Saudi Arabia for summer medical research programs since 2010.
Alfaisal students gain experience abroad
Alfaisal students gain experience abroad
Saudi Arabia condemns blast that hit mosque in Alawite area of Syria’s Homs
- Homs’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia condemned an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday that killed eight people.
The city’s press office said an explosive device had detonated inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib mosque and that security forces had cordoned off the area.
Syrian news agency SANA cited health ministry official Najib Al-Naasan as saying 18 others were wounded and that the figures were not final, indicating they could rise.
Extremist Syrian group Saraya Ansar Al-Sunnah said on its Telegram channels that it carried out the attack. The group previously claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Damascus church in June that killed 20 people.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said: “The Kingdom affirms its categorical rejection of terrorism, extremism, targeting of mosques and places of worship, and terrorizing innocent people. It expresses its solidarity with Syria in this great tragedy, and its support for the Syrian government’s efforts to establish security and stability.”
The statement extended the Kingdom’s condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Syria. It also wished the injured a speedy recovery.
