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  A new hospital for Dubai
A state-of-the-art teaching hospital will be the main tertiary care facility within Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), providing high-quality inpatient and outpatient care. HMI and DHCC have entered the first phase of what is expected to be a fast-track process of designing, commissioning, and staffing the DHCC University Teaching Hospital (UTH).
 
  New foundation to spur research opportunities for Gulf Region scientists
The recently launched Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research will focus on developing scientific leaders who will build a life sciences research infrastructure in the region. Uitimately the Foundation’s leadership hope that its program will help lead to groundbreaking discoveries that change the way medicine is practiced not only in Dubai and Gulf Region, but throughout the world. The Foundation represents the third pillar of Dubai’s vision to become a globally recognized center of excellence for health care delivery, medical education, and research.
 
  Dresden educators work to advance clinical training
The Technical University of Dresden’s long partnership with HMI has resulted in comprehensive curricular reforms, and provided numerous opportunities for faculty to learn and incorporate innovative teaching strategies. In March, a contingent of faculty from Dresden came to HMI to discuss two major challenges: how to better integrate clinical teaching with clinical care and how to develop advanced faculty development programs.
 


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