New Blog Post: All you need to know about Clinical Attachments in the UK Dr Ola Fahham and Dr Omar Hiraki, both Syrian doctors now working in the UK have developed extensive experience and knowledge of the UK health system. In the second of their blog posts, they share useful...
SBMS Statement: Immediate Release On the 14th June 2023, hundreds of refugees and migrants were on a fishing boat which left Libya on the 10th June 2023. Around 104 survivors have been rescued by the Greek authorities with hundreds more missing and presumed dead. Read SBMS’s statement about this...
Dr Omar Hiraki and Dr Ola Fahham, both of whom are SBMS members and have successfully navigated getting their first job in the UK have provided the first in our Arabic language blog series for 2023. In this blog, they provide first hand, practical advice that will help those who...
Welcome to our next Seminar in our Series to support Syrian healthcare workers in the UK We plan a panel of SBMS committee and other members who have recent experience of GMC registration and examinations (IELTs/OETS and PLAB 1 & 2) as well as membership (MRCP, MRCS and others.) Our...
SBMS statement on the cholera outbreak across Syria. The Syrian British Medical Society (SBMS) notes with alarm the cholera outbreak which is now widespread across Syria; cases were first noted in northeast Syria but have now also been reported in northwest Syria in all areas of geopolitical control. Cases of...
SBMS Education Working Group are pleased to invite you to our next in the seminar series for Syrian doctors who are new to the UK. The next session will be on Sunday 18th September 2022 between 1900-2000. Register below. Do also review our previous webinars and resources for Syrian doctors...
On 3rd April 2022, SBMS co-organised a webinar in Arabic for the general public on their health during Ramadan. It was broadcast live on facebook with more than 200 attendees. Please see here for the recording. We thank our chair and speakers Dr Mohamed Najjar, Dr Mohamed AlHadj-Ali (also...
Former SBMS chair Dr Yaser Sabouni provides life-changing surgeries to Syrian refugees in Lebanon in collaboration with MAPS (Multi-Aid Programs) in March 2022 SBMS are pleased to announce the completion of a surgical mission named ‘Mission of Hope’ with MAPS (Multi-Aid Programs) with whom Dr Yaser Sabouni (SBMS’s former chair,)...
We are pleased to announce our first webinar (Seminar for Syrian Dentists) aimed at Syrian dentists in the UK – which follows on from the successful seminar series for Syrian doctors. We already have Dr Yazan Douedari, a Syrian dentist who is now GDC registered and working in the UK...
We continue to update our resources for Syrian doctors, dentists and pharmacists and keep this live document of relevant links. We have uploaded presentations and documents for our Seminar Series aimed at Syrian doctors in the UK and are planning our next seminar for dentists in the UK. Please visit...
