Dubai Medical University · Quality Assurance & Institutional Effectiveness
SDG 04
SDG 04 – Quality Education 2025
DMU contributes to SDG 4 by providing accredited, inclusive education in the health professions, by supporting lifelong learning for practising clinicians, and by opening its campus and expertise to schools and the public.
Access to education
Measure (AY 2025/26) | Figure |
|---|---|
Students enrolled | 828 (752 undergraduate, 76 postgraduate) — up from 540 in 2024/25 |
Women | 825 (99.6%) |
Nationalities represented | 55 |
Emirati students | 159 (19%) |
By college | Medicine 368 · Pharmacy 302 · Nursing 158 |
The 2025 intake numbered 391 new students (not counting eight who left in the first week). In 2024/25, 59 students graduated, 12 of them Emirati.
New and accredited programmes
Master's in Health Professions Education — first cohort welcomed in September 2025 (Link).
UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) — DMU began international institutional accreditation in May 2025 (Link).
ACPE — external review of the new six-year PharmD and revised BPharm, 3 October 2025; eligible DMU pharmacy graduates now have a faster route to Canadian licensure.
UAE's first Herbal and Integrative Medicine summer internship (July 2025).
Lifelong learning for professionals
QA Hub records 46 professional-development events in 2025, many open to practitioners outside DMU. Highlights:
8th Regional Pharmacy Faculty Development Workshop with ACPE and AACP (January 2025): leaders from 24 pharmacy colleges in eight countries, including about 12 deans.
Preceptor Certificate Programme: 28 preceptors from 11 institutions (cohort 1) and 30 from UAE hospitals (cohort 2).
DHA-accredited antimicrobial stewardship workshop (6 CPD points), November 2025.
Basic Surgical Skills Bootcamp with IASSMS: 30 medical students from other UAE universities trained alongside 14 DMU students (November 2025).
Monthly Health Professions Education journal clubs and a career-guidance webinar series for medical students.
Education for the community
Project Nightingale (7–9 October 2025) (Link)
With the social enterprise Project You, DMU ran a three-day workshop for more than 60 Grade 8–9 pupils from Al Salam Community School on AI in emergency triage, with a mock emergency simulation.
DMU also hosted school visits and open days across 2025 and took its programmes to AETEX (Ajman) and Najah Expo (Dubai World Trade Centre). Library resources are open to students and staff under the Learning Resource Center policy (F.1).
Teaching quality and integrity
DMU adopted an AI Usage policy (C.7) and presented its AI Integration Framework at Abu Dhabi University's roundtable with the Digital Education Council (November 2025). Its College of Medicine received an Advance HE award for supporting fellowship, and DMU won an Advance HE Global Impact Grant for AI-powered medical education.
Sources
QA Hub registers (events, partnerships, research, scholarships, enrolment), read 19 October 2026
DMU news, dmu.ae (links above)