Innovative Education and Research
Innovative Academia Programs
To be announced
Research
Clinical Support Subcommittee (COM)
- To facilitate and enhance the clinical research capabilities of Alfaisal University by fostering collaborations between the College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, and affiliated hospitals.
- One of the projects will be to create a registry of clinicians and Alfaisal medical students working together on clinical research projects and to ensure both parties are satisfied at the end of the collaboration.
Patient-Centered Research & Community-Centered Research (Consumer/End-User Level)
- Research under this program will mainly include Patient-Centered Research and Community-Centered Research. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research helps patients and their caregivers communicate and make informed healthcare decisions, allowing their voices to be heard in assessing the value of healthcare options. Patient-centered research planning means developing research questions and outcome measures that are relevant to patients. Under this domain, researchers must determine which patient populations and stakeholders to include in study design and then facilitate easy study participation. The research focuses attention on the patients' beliefs, preferences, and needs, in contrast to physician-centered care.
Faculty Research Mentorship Network (Researcher/Provider Level)
- This will be a peer-assisted program where faculty who have either solid research ideas and/or data wish to conduct research and require the help of more research-experienced faculty to complete their projects. This will include adjunct faculty in clinical settings who have access to clinical data but are unsure of how to utilize the data or write up a research paper. We will be connecting faculty who can bridge the gap among each other and produce scientific studies together.
Primary Care Research Interest Group (Learner/Facilitator Level)
- This will be an interest group where interested students from any level (alumni/interns/clerkship students/pre-clerkship students) who have an interest in primary care (internal medicine/family medicine/emergency medicine) research will be connected to a supervisor who will help design, allocate resources, and execute research projects under the program.
Training of Trainers
Dr. Baraa Alghalyini Honored at the First SCFHS Training of Trainers Forum
Riyadh, October 8, 2026 - Dr. Baraa Alghalyini, Vice Dean of the College of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Alfaisal University, was honored at the First Training of Trainers Forum, organized by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS), in recognition of her role as one of the founders of the Commission's Training of Trainers (ToT) program.
Dr. Alghalyini founded the program with a group of colleagues in 2016. Ten years on, ToT is the program through which the Commission certifies the faculty who teach and assess residents in postgraduate medical training across the Kingdom. Its core course, ToT on the Go, prepares program directors, institutional officials and trainers in teaching and assessment, with a dedicated surgical track. A further course, ToT-Pro, prepares experienced educators to deliver the program themselves.
ToT is now part of SCFHS accreditation. Under the Commission's program accreditation standards, trainers in accredited postgraduate programs must hold an accredited ToT certificate.
The forum brought together leaders in health professions education and training from across the Kingdom to discuss how to develop skilled educators and strengthen the quality of healthcare training.
Dr. Alghalyini's recognition reflects Alfaisal University's contribution to building the Kingdom's health workforce and to the quality of medical education under Saudi Vision 2030.
8 October 2026;Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Baraa Alghalyini was honored at the First SCFHS Training of Trainers Forum in recognition of her contribution to advancing postgraduate medical education and healthcare workforce development.
