To achieve the stated aims, a new 3-year / 6- semester curriculum was developed by senior medical experts. It consists of both intensive theoretical study in the first year with a gradual introduction to practical work under tutelage in the second and third years. This new practiceoriented curriculum is in stark contrast to previous curriculums that would include tāghūt-sponsored pseudo-sciences such as“ culture”( i. e. secular nationalism) or superfluous subjects that are irrelevant to a physician’ s day-to-day work. The new curriculum covers specialties such as general surgery, fracture and orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, cardiology, pediatric and medical emergency, ophthalmology, urinary surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery.
The teaching staff consists exclusively of degree holders. Entrance is open to both females and males, with a dedicated school building, hospital, and female teaching staff for the female students. To support the students in their efforts the Islamic State does not charge any fees and provides the students with all that is necessary in terms of food, clothing, housing, transport, and books. For further encouragement high-achievers are granted rewards.
lands, chasing after worldly pleasures instead of performing hijrah to the Islamic State – and this despite hijrah being an undeniable Islamic obligation, in addition to the fact that hijrah was and still is relatively easy. The Islamic State offers everything that you need to live and work here, so what are you waiting for?
Caring for the Muslims and their children
A Call to Action
A senior medical worker in the Health Dīwān in ar-Raqqah explained to Dābiq that the Medical College attracted more than 300 applicants, of which 100 were accepted, half of whom were muhājirīn. He also mentioned that the student body is highly motivated and achieved good results in the first months, but that the staff wishes for support from additional teachers, preferably muhājirīn with experience in the medical field. He also indicated that a practical laboratory will soon be opened for the students.
This should be received as a wake-up call for the many Muslim students in the lands of kufr who claim to study medicine to“ benefit and support the Muslim Ummah,” but then remain in those
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