Posts in category: Alfaisal University

Inspired by the surge in technological development in the fight against COVID-19 and its repercussions, Alfaisal University chose E-health as a topic for this year’s 9^th Health Promotion Project: “E-Health: The New Norm, The New Competency”.

More than 350 first-year medical students participated in the event discussing over 30 topics in digital health and the newly developed health technologies that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the inevitable need of using these technologies as they are increasingly becoming a major source for health services.

Each booth exhibited an aspect of digital health, including the innovative pre-Covid & post-Covid applications, their limitations, implementations, anticipated impact on the community and health system, and their future.

The topics varied between diagnostics, therapeutic, and patient experience.

The idea of this yearly event started when students used to visit the schools that they graduated from to deliver presentations about topics that were relevant to youth and school students.

Consequently, and in order to ensure broader dissemination of knowledge, Alfaisal University decided to host the event on campus and invite different schools to join.

More than 1000 guests attended this year’s event including Alfaisal University’s students and faculty and participating students’ friends and family, school students from all over Riyadh, and 15 judges from significant institutions including: The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, King Faisal Foundation, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Dar Al Hikmah University, and “Waey” Association for Community Health.

Students’ exhibited projects were evaluated against different criteria by judges whose expertise ranged from clinical medicine to public health to artificial intelligence to project management.

On December 8, the winning groups were announced. “Surgical treatment” group ranked 1^st. Two groups ranked 2^nd: the “Emergency treatment” and the “Physical examination”. The 3^rd place was shared by three groups: the “Blood sugar monitoring”, the “Emergency monitoring”, and the “Pulmonary function tests”.

 

The Boeing-funded Solar Car Areej 1 came to a noteworthy conclusion at Alfaisal University after 5 years of hard work. Ambitious students from various engineering programs worked hard to ensure the car’s modules were designed for high efficiency, performance, & safety. The team at Alfaisal University continues to test and fine-tune the car in preparation for the SASOL 2021 International Solar Car Competition in South Africa.

Alfaisal University was ranked #10 in “The World’s Best Small Universities 2020”, by Times Higher Education.

To be eligible for the ranking, universities must appear in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2020, teach more than four subjects, and have fewer than 5,000 students.

According to Times Higher Education, Alfaisal achieved this ranking because of its small size, where students can benefit from an 11:1 student-to-staff ratio.

Earlier this year, the University topped the Times Higher Education Young University Ranking of 2020 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Region. It is ranked 31st in the world for universities under 50 years old.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date.

The ranking is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. It is the only university ranking to be independently audited by professional services firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts.