Department of Family and Community Medicine

About Department

AN OVERVIEW

The Department of Family and Community Medicine is a clinical department with various responsibilities encompassing teaching, training, providing community service and conducting scientific research. In addition to participating in the teaching of the MBBS Program, the faculty members are also involved with the teaching activities of Post graduate students enrolled in  family medicine residency program and preventive medicine residency program under the purview of the Saudi Council for Health Specialties (SCFHS).

VISION, MISSION AND VALUES

VISION: Achieving local, regional, and international excellence in the field of Family and Community Medicine through leadership in medical education, medical care, and scientific research.

MISSION:

1-Providing an advanced academic and technical knowledge environment that improves the knowledge and skills of students and health workers

2-Providing outstanding education and training in family and community medicine

3- Conducting innovative scientific research that meets the needs of the community

4- Contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of community health problems and their prevention

 Value:

We are committed to the Islamic values ​​and ethics of honesty, professionalism, responsibility, respect and excellence.

Department activities:

1-Teaching:

Teaching family and community medicine courses and evidence-based medicine for male and female students of the College of Medicine. The department also supervises and participates in teaching and training of Saudi residency programs of Saudi board of Family Medicine and also residency program of Saudi board of Preventive Medicine. In addition to the department’s contribution to some master’s courses for health colleges, such as a master’s degree in public health

2- Training:

. It includes training of health providers in order to improve the quality of health services.

-Training primary health care physicians and the health team in primary care centers

-Training of school health providers  and the schools health team

-Training student counselors in schools and school principals on how to deal with various health problem

-Training students on how to deal with some problems

-Training parents of disabled students on how to quickly intervene to reduce the size of disability

-Participation in the membership of scientific committees of scientific conferences that study problems specific to society, for example: mental health and society - health education - the school environment - etc.

3-Research

The department implements many priorities clinical and community research projects and community services that will be beneficial to patients and promote community health by studying various health problems in the community in terms of prevalence rate and prevention methods. They are published in scientific journals. The department also contributes to the dissemination of scientific research concepts for health providers  and raising The quality of medical research through participation in research schools and holding scientific workshops related to scientific research

4- community service

The staff of the department contribute to the provision of medical and advisory services through the university clinics for family and community medicine in Abha - Medical City, and provide preventive and curative services to community members, in addition to active participation in global health days and events such as early detection of breast cancer and other health events.

Head of Department
colleges

Head of Family and Community Medicine Department

Dr. Safar Abadi Saeed Alsaleem Alshahrani

Associate Professor, Chairman of department

Consultant of Family medicine

MBBS, SB-FM,AB-FM

Courses
  • COMM 361 (Basic Clinical Skills)  4(0+4)
  • COMM 431 (Community Medicine) 8(6+2)
  • COMM 642 (Family Medicine) 7(2+5)
  • COMM 652 (Evidence Based Medicine) 3(2+1)
  • Family medicine board courses
  • Preventive medicine board courses
  • Shared Master of Public Health
Staff and Faculty List

FACULTY MEMBERS / STAFF

Name

Nationality

Academic Rank

Speciality

Email

MALE SECTION

     

Safar Abadi Saeed Al-Saleem

Saudi

Associate Professor (HOD)

Family Medicine

asalslim@kku.edu.sa

Khalid Saad Ali Al Gelban

Saudi

Professor

Family Medicine

Ahmed Abdel Rahman Mahfouz

Egyptian

Professor

Community Medicine

 mahfouz@kku.edu.sa

Hassan Moh. Almusa

Saudi

Professor

Family medicine

Sayed Esam Mahmood

Indian

Professor

Community Medicine

smahmood@kku.edu.sa

Awad Saeed Abdallah Al Samghan

Saudi

Professor

Family Medicine

asoman@kku.edu.sa

Mohamed Abadi Saeed Al Saleem

Saudi

Professor

Family Medicine

mabade@kku.edu.sa

Abdullah abdulmheson  Al Sabaani

Saudi

Associate Professor

Community Medicine

aalsabaani@kku.edu.sa

Rishi Kumar Bharti

Indian

Assistant Professor

Community Medicine

brishi@kku.edu.sa

Faisal Saeed AlQahtani

Saudi

Assistant professor

Family Medicine

fsqahtani@kku.edu.sa

Ayoub Ali AlShaik

Saudi

Assistant professor

Family Medicine

alashaikh@kku.edu.sa

Shaheta Faraj Shaheta

Egyptian

Assistant professor

Community Medicine

shfaraj@kku.edu.sa

FEMALE SECTION

     

Shamsun Al-Nahar Al-Rahman

Bangladeshi

Professor

Community Medicine

skilil@kku.edu.sa

Razia Aftab Ahmed

Pakistani

Associate Professor

Family Medicine

 raftab@kku.edu.sa

Aesha Farheen Siddiqui

Indian

Assistant Professor

Community Medicine

afarheen@kku.edu.sa

Fatima Riaz

Pakistani

Assistant Professor

Family Medicine

frhyad@kku.edu.sa

Haifa Abdel K. Al-hefdi

Saudi

Assistant Professor

Family Medicine

haifa@kku.edu.sa

Asma Saad Habash

Saudi

Assistant Professor

Family Medicine

ahabbash@kku.edu.sa

Razan Suliman Al-Huayed

Saudi

Demonstrator

Family Medicine

Department Committees

1- Curriculum development and quality committee

2. Academic counseling committee

3- Exam committee

4- Postgraduation and boards committee

Useful Links
Contact Us

Chairman Tel 017247003

Email : asalslim@kku.edu.sa