Over 200 students graduate from RCSI Bahrain

Manama : The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) held its seventh Conferring Ceremony yesterday. 

Over 200 students graduated from undergraduate courses in nursing and medicine, as well as the RCSI Bahrain-hosted Institute of Leadership’s (IOL) Masters in Healthcare Management and Masters in Quality Safety and Healthcare Management. Students were  also awarded Membership of RCSI and Membership of RCSI’s Faculty of Dentistry.

Minister of Health Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh attended the ceremony on behalf of Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

Among the candidates, 150 were from undergraduate, bridging and masters programmes in nursing. This marks the university’s biggest ever cohort of nursing graduates on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the launch of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

RCSI Bahrain staff, stakeholders, special guests, dignitaries, government officials, students’ families and senior representatives of RCSI Dublin were also present.

The graduates from RCSI Bahrain and the National University of Ireland (NUI) were presented with their degrees by RCSI President Professor John Hyland and RCSI Bahrain President Professor Sameer Otoom.

The valedictorian address was delivered by nursing graduate, Narjes Ashkanani, who also received the BSc (Hons) Nursing Gold Medal.

With yesterday’s ceremony, the total number of RCSI Bahrain graduates has reached 1,300 since the inaugural conferring ceremony back in 2010.

RCSI Bahrain is a constituent university of RSCI, which was established in 1784. 

Like its Irish counterpart, RCSI Bahrain is a not-for-profit health sciences institution focused on education and research to drive positive change in all areas of human health worldwide.