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Discover the USEK facilities dedicated for medical education and training, where students study medicine, develop clinical skills, and gain field experience.
The François S. Bassil Medical Building is located in Jbeil, close to the Notre Dame des Secours University Hospital in Jbeil and other affiliated hospitals across Lebanon.
This strategic location guarantees USEK medical undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students to engage in field work with renowned hospitals, while benefitting from reduced commuting time.
On the academic level, the building is a modern facility fitted with the latest equipment and housing lecture halls, classrooms, clinical skills and medical simulation laboratories, and specialized spaces for teaching and research in health sciences.
The building also welcomes USEK’s national and international scientific conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Nursing Sciences
Physical Therapy
Fundamental Health Sciences
Biomedical and Clinical Research
Explore the scientific foundations of healthcare through the study of human health, basic medical sciences, and the principles behind medical research and practice.
Explore the scientific foundations of healthcare through the study of human health, basic medical sciences, and the principles behind medical research and practice.
MissionThe mission of the department is to train universitylevel nurses to provide preventive, curative, and palliative care, and to promote, preserve or restore health. Such interventions contribute to the education and to the health of individuals or groups of people and take place, whether autonomously or collaboratively, within the framework of a multidisciplinary team in all areas of activity in the nursing profession.Program Educational ObjectivesGraduates will have the theoretical, technical and relational knowledge needed to understand and take care of the health needs of individuals or groups of people within the framework of a multidisciplinary team.Graduates will conduct self-assessment, scientific curiosity and critical awareness in order to improve the quality of nursing care and professional practices, and have the ability to acquire new knowledge quickly and adapt to various situations.Graduates will have values based on respect for individuals and their rights, thus exercising professional ethical behavior, allowing them to make informed decisions and act with autonomy and responsibility within the scope of their function.Student OutcomesAn ability to apply knowledge in applied science and natural science to relevant fields of nursing science.An ability to assess a clinical situation and formulate a nursing diagnosis.An ability to plan and conduct a nursing project.An ability to apply and use the knowledge, gestures and modern technical and scientific tools needed for nursing practice.An ability to identify complications or risks associated with care and / or disease and provide appropriate solutions.Ability to initiate and implement educational and preventive care and / or projects in an individual, societal and global context.An ability to communicate and lead an effective connection in a care setting.An ability to analyze and improve professional practice, and engage in training.An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.An ability to organize and coordinate care interventions and those related to trainee training, as part of a multidisciplinary team.A capacity to understand contemporary issues related to public and community health.Degree RequirementsThis program requires 110 credits for students entering at the sophomore level (holders of freshman or a recognized baccalaureate - equivalent to 30 credits), distributed as following:General Education Requirements21ENGLISH COMMUNICATION3INTERCULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS FLUENCY3ARTISTIC DISCOVERY3PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR3LEBANESE HISTORY AND LEGACY3EFFECTIVE THINKING AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING3DIGITAL LITERACY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY3Specialization89BIO200 - Introduction to General Biology (course covering GE: SCIENCES AND HEALTH)3BCH210 - Applied Biochemistry3NUT211 - Fundamentals of Human Nutrition3SIN240 - Introduction to Nursing Sciences3SIN242 - Human Anatomy and Physiology3SIN243 - Basic Nursing Care (course covering GE: HUMANITIES, ETHICS, AND CIVILIZATIONS)3SIN245 - Clinical Training and First Aid3SIN246 - Elderly Nursing Care3SIN260 - Clinical Internships I (course covering GE: CAREER MANAGEMENT)2SIN265 - Clinical Internships II2SIN270 - Clinical Internships (Summer)1SIN323 - Public and Community Health and Nursing Care3SIN340 - Pharmacology - Toxicology3SIN342 - Pediatric Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN343 - Respiratory Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN345 - Psychiatry and Nursing Care3SIN346 - Nutritional Endocrine Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN347 - Cardiovascular Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN348 - Digestive Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN349 - Sense Organs Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN350 - Urinary Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN360 - Clinical Internships III2SIN365 - Clinical Internships IV2SIN370 - Clinical Internships of Liability (Summer)1SIN441 - Obstetrics-Gynecology and Nursing Care3SIN442 - Infectious Diseases - Microbiology and Nursing Care3SIN443 - Neurological Pathology and Nursing Care3SIN444 - Pathology of the Musculoskeletal System and Nursing Care3SIN445 - Hematology-Oncology and Nursing Care3SIN446 - Medical-Surgical Intensive Care and Nursing Care3SIN450 - Administration and Professional Organization3SIN460 - Clinical Internships V2SIN465 - Clinical Internships VI2Total110Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
