title: Strategic directions for university hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
abstract: The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing a massive support for its healthcare services. This year's fiscal budget for health care is by far the largest in the history of the kingdom. While pursuing the conventional goals of healthcare delivery systems, such as equity, affordability and availability of services, the ministry of education (MOE), formerly called ministry of higher education (MOHE), is also seeking to achieve certain excellence standards, which are expected to set the bar for other countries in the region to follow suit. Almost all, under construction, university hospitals were adopting a paradigm shift in the standard of health care and training provided. This report summarizes these standards.
authors.affiliation: a Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University , Saudi Arabia .
authors.forename: Khalid A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Bin Abdulrahman
authors.affiliation: b Cairo University , Egypt.
authors.forename: Bassel
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tawfik
mesh_terms: D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D000066908:Simulation Training