Royal College of Medicine Baghdad

Bac kground: The motivations behind why people choose to study medicine in Iraqi medical schools are unknown. Such information could help school pupils to make more informed career decisions and assist medical schools in enhancing the student selection process.
Aims : To investigate why people choose to study medicine in Iraq.
Subjects and methods: The first-year students admitted on the academic year 2015-2016 to Baghdad College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, were invited to complete a structured questionnaire, which was administered through the college electronic education portal. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 21 software.
Results : A total of 152 (50% response rate) students responded. Women constituted 69.1% of respondents. Most students (61.8%) had made their choice by themselves without family pressure. The most frequent reasons that affected this choice were “humanitarian reasons and a wish to provide help to others” as well as “childhood dream,” “positive community appraisal of doctors,” and “ready availability of work
for physicians.” About three-quarters (73.6%) of the students made some inquiry about medical school before making their choice, and the people asked were most frequently a medical student or a doctor. Information provided by the consulted parties was regarded as satisfactory by 64.2% of the surveyed students, had a positive value in 47.2%, and affected their decision in 34.9%. The highest proportion (42.2%) of the study sample was thinking about studying medicine since primary school. In addition, students with personal preference made their choice as a significantly younger age.
Conclusions: Reasons to apply for medical schools in Iraq are similar to those in many countries. Most of the students who inquired about studying medicine had not contacted the medical school itself.

Following the end of the First World War, several British orientalists had a significant influence on politics and development in a number of Arab countries in the Middle East. These include familiar figures such as TE Lawrence in Hejaz, Jordan and Syria, Gertrude Bell in Iraq, Harry St John Philby (later Sheikh Abdullah) in Saudi Arabia and Sir John Glubb (Glubb Pasha) in Jordan. There are however other less well-known individuals, of whom Harry Sinderson Pasha is one. Sinderson was a physician who played a significant role in the development of health and medical education in modern Iraq after it was established by the British in 1920. He was personal physician to the Royal family of Iraq, a confidant to King Faisal I and then to the Prince Regent, and he played an important role in the politics of that period.

Baghdad Medical College in Baghdad, Iraq, has invested in the Sectra Visualization Table, a unique tool for interacting with real-size virtual bodies.  The university will use the table to enhance its medical education and research. Source: https://medical.sectra.com/news-press-releases/news-item/DF7E0297BFFA6ECF/

This BMJ article, is the first ever published mention of the first medical college established in Baghdad, Iraq in 1927. EXCITING HISTORY.
The conclusion of a new treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Iraq (writes a correspondent), and the prospect of the early admission of Iraq to the League of nations, has brought into prominence the political and economic progress of "The Land of Two Rivers" since the accession of King Faisal. In educational matters, too, great strides have been made, and the infant Al-Al-Beit University of Baghdad already possesses Faculties of Religion, Agriculture, and Medicine.