Medical education in Morocco: Current situation and future challenges

Abstract

Morocco is a North African lower middle income country; home to the oldest University in the world, where the first identifiable medical degree was issued. Medical Education in Morocco is provided through 10 Medical Schools offering each year around 3200 new places in the first year of medical studies. It is facing many challenges in both its undergraduate and postgraduate programs that need to be addressed urgently through the currently debated national reform of medical studies.

Keywords:

• Medical education
• Morocco
• reform of medical studies

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Maryam Fourtassi

Maryam Fourtassi, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Mohamed Premier University, and Head of the Rehabilitation Department at Mohamed the 6th University Hospital, Oujda, Morocco.

Naima Abda

Naima Abda, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Head of the Epidemiology Department at the Faculty of Medicine of Mohamed Premier University, and also Head of the outpatient clinic at Mohamed the 6th University Hospital, Oujda, Morocco.

Yassamine Bentata

Yassamine Bentata, MD, PhD, is a Full Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Mohamed Premier University. She is also Head of the Nephrology Department at Mohamed the 6th University Hospital, Oujda, Morocco.

Abderrazak Hajjioui

Abderrazak Hajjioui, MD, is a Full Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Mohamed Ben Abdallah University, and Head of the Rehabilitation Department at Hassan the Second University Hospital, Fez, Morocco.