ARTICLE FEATURES . Medical Colleges
Medical Colleges after the Covid-19 Pandemic New majors and programs that simulate the future
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any researchers and stakeholders have talked about many changes that the world will witness after the coronavirus subsides. Among these changes are the emergence of new specializations that are expected to receive great demand after the pandemic subsides, amid expectations that the crisis will lead to millions of unemployed people in the world. It is expected that there will be high demand for crisis management consultants and financial consultants. Experts expect that a large number of companies will work remotely, so the demand for programmers and time management specialists will increase. After the spread of the coronavirus crisis, medicine has proven that it has regained its position as the most important science for humans, as the status of doctors in the whole world has risen after medicine became the first and last hope in discovering the treatment that would save the world. The world no longer cares about any of the other sectors. Flights, factories and events have stopped, but the concern was that a hospital would not stop providing service to an infected person. Therefore, according to the opinion of many experts in the medical and educational fields, the study of medicine will move to a higher position, and specializations that were not known before become essential with the great transformations caused by the pandemic. After the expected demand for medical specialties, universities are expected to expand their medical faculties of all kinds, and it will become important to develop medical sciences and the institutions that teach them in order to keep pace with this increasing demand. Also, institutions that teach medicine will put the issue of saving the world from pandemics as their top priority given what we have seen in the past months, which will affect the curricula and their development, and increase the attempt to focus on instilling medical values in medical students.
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The coronavirus crisis has proven the urgent need for personnel specialized in Emergency Medical Sciences, Respiratory Care Sciences, Medical Laboratory Analysis and Laboratory Research, Health Management and Disease Outbreak Control, medical assistance and support experts and biotechnology.
Post-pandemic transformations Many specialists assert that epidemiology has increased in importance after the emergence of the coronavirus crisis, and it is a science specialized in the study of epidemics and the analysis of their data and their impact on societies and the world. After the Covid-19 crisis and its major repercussions, this science related to medicine will be greatly activated. It is expected that the interest to study and research it, learn about its details and dive into it, will increase. Epidemiology has become one of the most important sciences affected by the coronavirus crisis, especially after it became widespread in all countries of the world. University hospitals have always played a major role in containing the medical isolation for coronavirus in all countries affected by the pandemic. This has led universities to significantly increase investment in these hospitals, which will enhance the medical education process everywhere. It is also expected that grants in this field will increase in various universities around the world, whether to fill the gaps in dealing with the virus, or to meet the increasing demand in medical specialties, especially new ones. Universities started announcing new Master’s programs related to medical sciences, which were launched in line with the Covid-19 outbreak, such as Master of Science in Adult Critical Care Nursing in the Health Sciences Faculties, Master of Science in Environmental Health, Master of Science in Environmental Engineering in Colleges of Engineering in a number of well-known universities. In addition to doctorate programs in pharmacy that are compatible
THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS HAS PROVEN THE URGENT NEED FOR PERSONNEL SPECIALIZED IN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESPIRATORY CARE SCIENCES, MEDICAL LABORATORY ANALYSIS AND LABORATORY RESEARCH, HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND DISEASE OUTBREAK CONTROL, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT EXPERTS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY.
University hospitals have always played a major role in containing the medical isolation for coronavirus in all countries affected by the pandemic. This has led universities to significantly increase investment in these hospitals, which will enhance the medical education process everywhere.
