العربية 
Sana’a – UST President, Dr. Khaled Ahmed Salah, accompanied by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. Abdullah Al-Mikhlafi, inaugurated today, Sunday, Rajab 5, 1446 AH, corresponding to January 5, 2025 AD, the third field training exhibition for fourth-year female students of general Medicine and Surgery at the Girls’ Branch.
The University President toured the exhibition pavilions and listened to a brief explanation from the female students regarding the topics and locations of the field visits as well as the key results achieved. He commended the efforts of the Medicine and Surgery female students in community health awareness and education across a number of companies, factories, and institutions in the Capital Secretariat.
The topics of the field training for fourth-year general Medicine and Surgery female students this year focused on occupational health and safety, identifying occupational hazards, diseases, and accidents affecting workers in workplaces and how to prevent them, in addition to hypertension, diabetes, and domestic accidents for children under five years of age.
The field visits, organized by the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Faculty for fourth-year female students to a number of hospitals, restaurants, and companies in the Capital Secretariat, aimed to spread awareness and health education regarding occupational hazards affecting workers in these entities. They emphasized the necessity of providing individual and collective protective equipment for workers exposed to occupational hazards, such as special work clothes, face masks, head and face shields, gloves, sterilizers, protective glasses, and safety shoes.
Occupational injuries and accidents varied between burns, electric shocks, cuts, fractures, falls, suffocations, and poisoning, in addition to occupational diseases such as asthma, pneumonia, cancerous tumors, hearing loss, skin diseases, and psychological and mental illnesses related to work stress.
The rate of occupational accidents and diseases varied from one institution to another depending on the level of awareness, compliance with labor regulations and laws, and the presence of preventive measures and emergency procedures in workplaces.
The field training course, uniquely offered by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Science and Technology, aims to equip students with numerous professional and general skills that a medical graduate must master according to modern accreditation standards. These include communication skills with the community across its various sectors, diagnosing community-level health problems and their causes to propose solutions, providing community health awareness, teamwork and leadership skills, communication skills with various entities, as well as data presentation, analysis, reporting, and discussion skills.
The opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Mehdi Al-Qarwani, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Field Training and Hospitals; Dr. Suzan Al-Harwi, Dean of the Girls’ Branch; Dr. Kholoud Al-Baqari, Academic Supervisor for Fourth-Year Female Students; along with a number of faculty members at the Faculty.
