Interim Chair:
| Musharrafieh, Umayya |
| Professors: | Antoun, Jumana; Musharrafieh, Umayya;
Saab, Bassem; Usta, Jinan |
| Associate Professors: | Mufarrij, Afif; Romani, Maya; Sakr, Carine |
| Assistant Professors: | Assaf, Georges; Khater, Beatrice; RahmeBallan, Diana; Osman, Mona; Shararah,
Nabil; Zahran, Tharwat |
| Instructors: | Khaddaj, Wajdi; Khattar, Joe; Lakissian,
Zavi; Makarem, Nisrine; Moukheiber, Sami;
Razzouk, Jibrayil |
| Clinical Associates: | Alayan, Nour; Badr, Samia; Chalhoub,
Wissam; El Ashkar, Khalil; Ghanem, Mario;
Hleis, Sani; Lakkis, Najla; Maalouf, Grace;
Makhlouf-Akel, Madeleine; Malek, Elie;
Rahimi, Rose Maria; Sarkis Habib Ishak,
Hala; Zeidan, Randa |
The Department of Family Medicine offers a clinical clerkship and specialty electives to
fourth year medical students. It also offers a postgraduate training program to physicians
at the end of which they are eligible to sit for the Arab Board of Family Medicine.
Residency Program
The Department of Family Medicine offers a three-year training program. Residents who like to sit for the Arab Board will have an extra year. The goal of training is to produce competent, community-oriented family physicians capable of providing high-quality care to their patients. The program consists of rotations in the different clinical departments of the Faculty of Medicine, as well as ambulatory primary health care experience in the Family Medicine Clinics, emergency services at AUBMC, and satellite centers. All residents are required to sit for the In-training Examination of the American Board of Family Medicine during the first three years.
Teaching Activities
The department holds topic conferences, core content lectures, journal clubs, morning
reports, research forums, patients from our practice, practice management, guest lectures,
and workshops.
Family Medicine Added Qualifications Fellowships
The Department of Family Medicine has established three new fellowships. “The Primary
Care Sports Medicine Fellowship”, “The Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Fellowship”, and “Geriatric Medicine fellowship”.
- The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship offers a 1-year integrated academic and
clinical program. It prepares the primary care physician to deliver evidence based,
safe and quality musculoskeletal care. Applicants should have completed a residency
training in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or Emergency Medicine.
- The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fellowship offers a 2-year integrated
academic and clinical program. It trains the physicians to be proficient in all aspects of
the practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Completion of the program
leads to certification in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a master’s
degree in public health. Applicants should have completed a residency training in
Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
- The Geriatric Medicine fellowship offers a 2-year integrated academic and clinical
program. Training occurs in different settings, in hospital, clinics, and nursing home.
Fellows also receive training in palliative care. Applicants should have completed a
residency training in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
University Health Services (UHS)
The Department of Family Medicine is responsible for providing comprehensive primary
care services to the AUB community including students, faculty, staff and their dependents
at the Family Medicine Clinics and Advancing Research Enabling Communities Center
AREC (Bekaa) rural clinic.
Employee Health
The Department offers Employee Health services to the University including the Medical
Center.
Faculty Development
The Department provides faculty development courses to primary care physicians from
Lebanon and the region. Subjects covered include Integrative Health, Evidence Based
Practice, Health Information Systems, Communication Skills, Primary Care Centers Practice
Management, Employee Health and Travel Medicine.
Satellite Clinics
The Department of Family Medicine assists various Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs), governmental and private organizations in managing their primary care clinics. It is
currently sending residents to different community-based NGO clinics.