Asalamualaikum,
I’m happy to announce that from the 26th of september until the end of the year, we have the SDC courts 1 and 2 of the multi-purpose gym reserved for indoor soccer. We shall start at 8.00pm every saturday and finish by 10pm.
Soccer Game: Indoor
When: Every Saturday (8.00 to 10.00 pm)
Where: SDC Multipurpose room
Jazakom Allah…
Ebrima.
Inshallah we will celebrate Eid according to the declaration of ISNA and ISGH, tomorrow (Sunday, 20th of September).
Eid Prayers will be offered at Wadsworth Hall Room # G17-19 at 8:30 am.
Inshallah Brother Zeyad will do the Khutba. There is separate provision for men and Women.
Eid Mubaarak to all the members and muslims around the world. May Allah fulfil all our wishes and grant us the ultimate goal of Aakhirah..aameen,
Dear brothers and sisters,
Assalam u alaikum.
One of the members of MSA was in the local news for being the first Arabian native to complete an eight week health care training at Portage Hospital. The following is the excerpt along with the link of the local news daily where it appeared. May Allah help the student in all her future endeavors, AAMEEN.
http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/506121.html
HANCOCK – Copper Country residents have made homesickness a little less of an issue for Dr. Rudhab Bahabry this summer. Bahabry, of Saudi Arabia, is finishing eight weeks at Portage Health in Hancock as part of an elective through the King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah.
“I am most grateful to have had this experience,” she said in near-perfect English. “Some of my friends studied abroad in Canada and the U.S. and I wanted to try it. I have learned a great deal and am thankful to many people.”
Bahabry interviewed successfully with Dr. Kirk Lufkin, Portage Health’s Chief Medical Officer, last year, after Lufkin made the acquaintance of her husband, a Michigan Technological University student who was looking for a health care position for his wife so they could be together. Bahabry soon found she was pregnant, and had to postpone her start date. She gave birth at Portage in May, and started her instruction June 15.
The Saudi Arabian medical school process differs from that of the United States in that prospective doctors are not required to complete four years of a pre-medicine college curriculum and then four years of medical school. Instead, the system is based on six years of intensive medical training right out of high school for those students who qualify under a highly selective system.
Bahabry, who is completing her studies with a year’s internship, must complete two months each of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery and pediatrics, as well as one month of emergency medicine, two weeks of radiology and eight weeks of electives. Her eight-week stay at Portage qualified her for academic credit for the elective requirement. However, as Portage Health is not licensed as a “teaching hospital,” Bahabry could observe but not directly interact with patients.
“I shadowed doctors and asked a lot of questions,” Bahabry said. “I thought they would get bored with all of my questions but everyone was very nice.”
Radiologist Dr. Paul Lyle noted Bahabry was “consistently attentive and pleasant,” even at the end of a long working day, while Family Practice Physician Dr. David Kass said Bahabry had been very well-received by his patients.
But Bahabry’s tutelage in the laboratory with Pathologist Dr. Petio Kotov was particularly rewarding, for both teacher and student.
“She is gifted with a talent to recognize and remember tissue patterns, and spent a lot of time performing examinations of surgical biopsies to establish the correct diagnosis,” Kotov said. “This ‘test’ she has passed with excellent remarks.”
Bahabry’s success as a budding pathologist was a surprise even to her.
“I thought before that I wanted to be perhaps a neurologist or a dermatologist, but I loved working in the lab because each slide is like a mystery,” she said. “Dr. Kotov would say ‘look, what is this,’ and was so encouraging. I now believe this is what I want to do.”
Bahabry said the warm welcome by co-workers and new friends has helped ease the homesickness she feels for Jeddah, and the separation from her mother and sisters.
“Everyone we have met here has been so nice, it’s a small place, and it’s very quiet,” she said. “I will miss the climate and being close to nature, but of course I will miss my husband the most.”