Objectives: The educational curriculum in the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nahrain aims to help and prepare students to become physicians at the level of responsibility in terms of scientific, ethical, and academic standards through the following:

1. Defining the desired level of the physician in his practical life by acquiring personal and cognitive qualifications that lead to comprehensive medical care and enable him to make the correct scientific decision and bear professional responsibility.
2. Providing the scientific structure in terms of acquiring cognitive information and understanding its importance in various disease conditions to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions.
3. Practicing clinical skills through communication with the patient, gathering information, performing clinical examination, and developing a comprehensive treatment plan starting from differential diagnosis and ending with monitoring the patient's response.

Vision: Paving the way for the development of healthcare with a focus on patient care fundamentally and in integration with the development of medical teaching curricula and preparation for scientific research through:

• Patient care - providing clinical medical services at a high academic level
• Benefiting from the application of modern scientific concepts for better healthcare
• Emphasizing the highest values in professional ethics and scientific research
• Teaching curricula - applying modern methods in medical teaching to ensure continuous development in scientific programs.
• Scientific research - providing a solid foundation for preparing to conduct academic and clinical scientific research

Message:

1. Teaching and training undergraduate and postgraduate clinical students in line with the progress recorded in teaching and clinical knowledge globally.
2. Preparing physicians capable of managing comprehensive medical care to improve the patient's health status based on advanced diagnostic and therapeutic developments.
3. Advancing scientific knowledge aimed at understanding the disease process and then the possibility of prevention and treatment through cognitive integration between basic sciences and clinical sciences.
4. Creating a generation of medical college graduates qualified and able to complete their postgraduate studies with a perspective of modern concepts of medical care.