Main Activities
The Department organizes an intensive clinical course annually for any interested prospective candidate for the Arab/Saudi Board Examinations. This course has attained some degree of popularity amongst residents within and outside the Kingdom. Department staff as well as leading authorities in obstetrics and gynaecology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are usually to participate in the course.
The department also organizes an internal symposium in obstetrics and gynaecology annually. Leading figures in the specialty as well the subspecialities within the kingdom and internationally are usually invited to present papers during such symposia.
A skill lab is being conducted at the King Khalid University Hospital. The lab is degined to expose students (both under and post graduate) to real life clinical situations in the speciality using dummies and mannequins. This obviates the need for human patients for practical obstetrics and gynaecology with the attendant difficulties.
Other Activities
The Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department at the KKUH is one of the biggest academic/clinical department at the King Saud Medical College.
The king Khalid University Hospital, being a tertiary centre, accepts complicated cases referred to it from other medical institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It is one of the centre for the training of post graduates in obstetrics and gynaecology. It is recognized by the Saudi Council for medical specialization, the Arab Board and the saudi Association of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the K.S.A
The department is equipped with very modern and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic tools which help to give the best to patient who present.
The Department has the following units :-
Gynaeecology beds,
Antenatal beds.
beds for Labour and Delivery.
Post Natal beds.
The delivery suite has its own obstetrics & Gynaecology Theater and an adjoining recovery room. Department units and other problems related to delivery are performed in this theater.
There is a room exclusively for gynaecological surgery. This room is part of the main theater complex for the hospitals surgical procedures.
For the promotion of academic and clinical excellence the department has a number of sub divisions viz.
1. Perinatology
2. Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technique.
3. Ultrasound.
4. Gynaecological Oncology.
5. Endoscopic Surgery
Aims of the Department:
To provide an efficient ante-natal care for the mother and her fetus and improve the general health status of the Saudi Community.
To be in the fore front in the provision of health education to the general public.
To provide basic knowledge in obstetrics & gynaecology to medical students.
To teach, train and assist post graduate doctors achieve the necessary theoretical and practical skill as laid down by the regulations of the Saudi/Arab Boards and the Department of Obstetricians & Gynaecology.