Makassed General Hospital offers postgraduate medical residency training in a modern and well equipped medical facility with a diverse patient population and a high quality teaching staff.

The medical resident, at the completion of his residency training program is expected to have achieved the academic excellence and in-depth clinical competence characteristic of a well-trained general specialist in his field.

The program includes specialized curricula in each of the following specialties where the educational progress and the clinical activity of each resident are carefully supervised by an experienced attending staff guided by the chairmen of departments.

General Surgery      

The objective of the residency training in surgery is the provision of diverse clinical experience in the field of surgery which includes the preoperative, intra operative and post-operative management of the surgical patient.  The clinical responsibilities of the surgical house office increase in depth and complexity as the level of the training progresses.

Internal Medicine

The residency training program in General Internal Medicine has its mission the education and training of residents in the clinical skills, knowledge, and humanistic qualities desirable in a well-trained general internist.

Obstetrics & Gynecology:

During this postgraduate education, each resident has opportunities to consolidate much of the basic information he learned in medical school, develop diagnostic skills, learn to treat obstetrics & gynecology conditions, perform obstetric and gynecology procedures, and become aware of the responsibilities of the physician towards his patients, their families and community.

Moreover, the department of OBGYN has initiated a fellowship program in feto maternal medicine in collaboration with the University of Lille. The feto maternal sub specialist will have further theoretical and practical training in:

–           High risk pregnancy  and feto – maternal medicine

–           Ante natal diagnosis of a wide range of maternal and fetal disorders through invasive and non invasive techniques.

–           Management of high risk pregnancies antenatally, perinatally and postnatally

Pediatrics:

The department of pediatrics at Makassed General Hospital has, in addition to its residency training program that graduates general pediatricians, a fellowship program in neonatology done in collaboration with the University of Lille. Duration of this subspecialty training include two years of which one year is spent at Lille University and the other at Makassed General Hospital.

 The aim of this training is to add to the wellbeing of fetus and neonate in regular nursery and intensive care unit at Makassed General Hospital and to distribute the expertise over areas remote from the capital Beirut on nationwide level.

To further strengthen these training programs, Makassed General Hospital sought and achieved the following accreditation and affiliation agreements:

The Arab Board of Medical Specialties Accreditation

The Arab Board for Medical Specialties of the Arab League/Council of Ministers has recognized the hospital as a teaching hospital in the following medical specialties: