TY - JOUR AU - Bajammal, Sohail AU - Zaini, Rania AU - Abuznadah, Wesam AU - Al-Rukban, Mohammad AU - Aly, Syed Moyn AU - Boker, Abdulaziz AU - Al-Zalabani, Abdulmohsen AU - Al-Omran, Mohammad AU - Al-Habib, Amro AU - Al-Sheikh, Mona AU - Al-Sultan, Mohammad AU - Fida, Nadia AU - Alzahrani, Khalid AU - Hamad, Bashir AU - Al Shehri, Mohammad AU - Abdulrahman, Khalid Bin AU - Al-Damegh, Saleh AU - Al-Nozha, Mansour M. AU - Donnon, Tyrone PY - 2008 DA - 2008/11/25 TI - The need for national medical licensing examination in Saudi Arabia JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 53 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Medical education in Saudi Arabia is facing multiple challenges, including the rapid increase in the number of medical schools over a short period of time, the influx of foreign medical graduates to work in Saudi Arabia, the award of scholarships to hundreds of students to study medicine in various countries, and the absence of published national guidelines for minimal acceptable competencies of a medical graduate. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-53 DO - 10.1186/1472-6920-8-53 ID - Bajammal2008 ER -