出版社：Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
摘要：Health education programmes face numerous challenges, particularly in medical sciences. Universities are under pressure to provide innovative programmes and in particular curricula to embed and support research. Further, university rankings that have gained popularity in recent years pose another challenge to universities. As higher education continues to see limited government funding, the competition for global rankings within knowledge-based economies becomes more acute. The Kingdom of Bahrain has two medical schools, the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University (AGU), and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain). The two universities have established a sustainable collaboration that is a win-win situation for both institutions. AGU and RCSI Bahrain were driven by a common purpose to produce high quality research to serve the community and the region by the close working of faculty from each other’s University. They envisioned that this collaboration would increase the research productivity of Bahrain and the region and would give researchers another source of funding. This further evolved into the signing of a memorandum of understanding in 2014 and the establishment of a Steering Committee. The AGU RCSI- Bahrain Research Grant has already supported nine research projects. Other beneficial outcomes emerged from this collaboration including organizing the AGU/ RCSI Bahrain First Joint Scientific Research Conference in 2019. We believe that AGU and RCSI Bahrain have achieved a successful and exemplary research collaboration.
