Almaarefa College of Medicine program offers the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS), which requires six years of study and one year of internship (a total of 222 credit hours). The students in the College are required to complete successfully a set of courses that are taken over three phases. The first is a one-year (two semesters) premedical phase. The second is a two and a half-year (five semesters) basic sciences phase, in which students study all body systems in integrated blocks with clinical relevance. The third phase is two and a half-year (five semesters) phase composed of clinical rotations in the different fields of Medicine and Surgery. One-year (12 months) Internship is required after completion of all courses before official graduation