At 9 am 29^th May, 2007, the president of Hawler Medical University Assistant Prof. Dr. Pishtewan Hashim Al- Bazzaz, welcomed the attendants in the opening session of the course of Pediatric and Adult Hospital Infection Control, as a continuous activity of the Iraqi CME center in Erbil.

The 3 days course included lectures by the participants; while the 3^rd day was allocated for a field tour in Maternity and Pediatric Hospital. The evening session course included lectures and course on line with Dr. Victoria Fraser/ President of the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of USA. 

Dr. John Podgore, Dr. Barbara Aktinson and Dr. James Brien, the team of physicians from USA, presented their fruitful lectures in this course.

Participants from Erbil, Dohuk, Mosul, Kirkuk and Basra have been participated, the total number was 63.

Further more. The course mainly aimed at updating physicians' knowledge about the methods of infection control in Iraqi hospitals; meanwhile participants submitted to a pretest to assess their knowledge as part of continuing medical education.

As a conclusion of this course the participants will submit on line to a pre and post- conference test, successful participants will be awarded certificate from the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of USA.

In addition, Hawler Medical University awarded the certificate of attendance to the participants.

On 19 April 2007, the College of Medicine hosted the first Annual Scientific Conference of Student's Project. This conference aimed to present a couple of researches done by a group of 4^th year Medical Students and was supervised by the Department of Internal and Community Medicine.

The conference began with a welcoming speech by the Dean of the College, Assistant Prof. Dr. Farhad Jalil Al-Khayat, followed by a speech from the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Edris Hadi Salih. The Minister was impressed by having this conference which, conducts for the first time in Kurdistan, and would open the chance of having more similar conferences within all Colleges in Kurdistan. He expressed his wishes of having more researchers presented in the future and proposed to record those students' researchers in order to have an advantage when submitting for graduate study in the future.

The Minister's speech followed by the speech of the President of Hawler Medical University, Assistant Prof. Dr. Pishtewan Al-Bazzaz. His speech best described as a welcoming and encouraging one.

A short break came with visiting the exhibition done by some of the medical students, and then followed by presenting the researches. 

The topic of the researches was as followed:

1- Expectation of secondary school students  (1st Place)

 Presented by: Esra Omar & Shina Kameran

 Supervised By: Prof. Dr. Tariq Al-Hadithi

2- Medical Student Attitude Tward Medical Teaching (2nd Place)

Presented by: Hemin Jawad & Hemin Hamza

Supervised By: Dr. Wali Omer

3- Epidemiological Cases admitted to the Coronary Care Unit / Hawler (3rd Place)

Presented by: Hojir Amir

Supervised by: Prof. Shatha Al- Sharbatti

Other researches (in random ordering)

1- Use of Computers in private Clinics

Presented by: Bahra Hussein & Muhanad Muhamad

Supervised By: Dr. Wali Omer

2- Prevalence of Alcohol consumption among students of Hawler Medical University

Presented by: Muhammad Umer                                                                          Supervised by: Dr. Samir Mahmood

3- Epidemiological Study on smoking habit and related factors among students in Hawler Medical & Salahaddin Universities

Presented by: Hojr K. Ahmed

Supervised by: Dr. Kamaran Hassan

4- Blood Group demographic distribution in Arbil

Presented by: Janan Wadih

Supervised by: Dr. Lazha Talat

5- Frequency of Hypertention in outpatient clinic in Rizgary Hospital and Mala-Afandi PHC

Presented by: Sangar Rasheed

Supervised by: Dr. Jwan Mahamed

At 9 am 17^th April, 2007, on behalf of Minister of Higher Education, the president of Hawler Medical University Dr. Pishtewan Hashim Al-Bazaz, welcomed the attendants in the opening session of the conference of refreshing course of OBGYN as the first IRAQI CME Center activity in Erbil.

Dr. Kamal Kirkuki, deputy of the Kurdistan National Assembly gave a speech and expressed his support and KNA's to this program.

 An eighty obstetrics and gynecologist from Erbil, Dohuk, Sulaimanina, Mosul, and Kirkuk participated in this Conference, out of 80, twelve of them were trainers, while the remained were trainees.

Tow specialties from USA, Dr. Martin Olsen and Dr. Randall Williams participated in this course and they played an important role to achieve one of the CME Center Objectives, which is updating knowledge.

The course started from 17^th April and lasted for 3 days, the last day was a practical session at the operating room in Maternity Hospital in Erbil. The course has been focusing on the following aims:

1. Refreshing and updating the knowledge,
2. Establishing a Northern Iraqi Specialty Societies that compile OBGYN specialties in Kurdistan Region, Iraq,
3. Establishing a link and communication between OBGYN specialties in Iraq and those of USA,

 Hosted by Hawler Medical University,  the International Medical Corps (IMC), in partnership with the Medical Alliance for Iraq (MAI) organized a 3-day conference in Erbil between December 5th and 7th 2006.  The conference brought the senior elements of the Iraqi medical system together with international physicians from the US and UK (MAI). The focus of the conference was to compile a comprehensive list of Continuing Medical Education (CME) needs for the creation of the northern campus of the Medical Education and Training Centers of Iraq, (METCI) in the Erbil area of Kurdistan. The METCI will serve to provide CME and training, and will also house conference facilities for lectures, courses, panels and AV presentations. Additional facilities such as operation theatres for performing surgical procedures would be an integral part of the METCI. The center will also be equipped with an E-Learning Center, a library and a Telemedicine unit.

During the ceremony, certificates were granted to the graduated students and prizes were distributed among the first three graduates of each college.

During the study year 2005-2006, 45 students have graduated from postgraduate studies while 204 students have obtained graduate degree from the four colleges; 87 students from the College of Medicine, 31 students from the College of Dentistry, 33 students from the College of Pharmacy and 53 students from the College of Nursing.

Graduation Guide in PDF format: Introduction, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy,  Nursing, Final.