1. Participation in of the admission of new patients in the hospital and writing the follow-up daily viewing in the medical file (in the morning and the evening) based on the instructions and guidelines and recommendations of the physician and the senior resident doctor and under their supervision and follow-up.
2. Documenting observations (clinical history, vital signs, re-writing therapy, and follow up of the results of laboratory and radiological investigation, surgical report and participate in the preparation of patients for all procedures and recommendations requested by the physician and the senior Resident, and any observations that may arise on the health and pathological status of the patients admitted for hospitalization) and present the clinical case hospitalized in the hospital by the seniors doctors and supervisors doctors.
3. Following up and supervising the medication and feeding of patients and ensure that the nursing staff performs that duty.
4. Accompanying the supervisor and senior Resident during their morning and evening visits in the ward and intensive care or while working in outpatient clinics, ER, and other units and sections of the hospital in the Specialization they belong to and helping them perform their duties while recording their observations in the patient’s file and ensure follow-up and implementation.
5. Training to read the results of radiographs, ECG, and laboratory tests under the supervision of a senior doctor and the specialist doctor.
6. According to schedules prepared by the Scientific Council and the Chief Resident doctors, continuous presence in the different wards is prepared.
7. General supervision of the hygiene and order of the department and assuring the availability of equipment, medical devices, and supplies, and keeping the standard infection control and sterilization.
8. Control the organization and accuracy of the patient’s file.
9. He/she may not discharge patients or transfer them to another department or hospital.
10. Compliance with the working hours and duties assigned in the shifts, according to the schedules and program prepared by the Scientific Council and Chief Resident doctors, may not leave the unit or department he/she works in without the supervisor doctor or senior’s permission Resident.
11. He/she may intervene in life-saving cases or those that arise on the clinical point of the patients, which may lead to severe complications. In such cases, he/she shall inform the senior resident physician or the treating physician and document those procedures in the patient’s file.
12. Preparing discharge reports under the direct supervision of the senior resident physician.
13. Comply with any tasks and duties assigned to them by the supervising specialist or senior resident doctor.
14. Training to work in the outpatient clinic under the supervision of the specialized physician and the senior Resident.
15. Training and practicing on some interventions such as pleurocentesis and ascites and cerebral spinal fluid puncture.
16. Follow-up the availability of medication and medical supplies in the ambulance.
17. Participation in education and supporting patients and their families.
18. Adherence to the facility or hospital policy in which he/she is training without any conflict with the policy of the residence program.

1. Basic Life Support (BLS) is mandatory for all trainees.
2. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Mandatory for all trainees in internal specialties in all its branches – Anesthesia – Intensive Care – Emergency Medicine.
3. Advanced Life Trauma Support (ATLS) is mandatory for all surgical trainees in all branches. Emergency medicine is optional for anesthesia and intensive care.
4. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is mandatory for all trainees of pediatrics.
5. Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) for all trainees in pediatrics – OB\GY – Emergency Medicine.
6. EBM course and the principles of the predicate cycle of scientific research.
7. (Communication Skills).
8. A course in skills is delivering of unpleasant medical information for patients or their families (Breaking Bad News).

Vacations for resident physicians are determine by a regulatory decision issued by the Syrian Board for Medical Specialties (attached).

Any health facility recognized as a training center can apply to accept former (over a long period) Resident doctors to continue the specialty to work within the facility. In this case, the Resident is employed within the facility by the employment policy followed within the facility or organization. Still, the resident doctor should adhere to the attendance policy and the training program of the SBOMS after obtaining the approval of the relevant scientific council, conducting an interview with him\her, and determining the residency year. The Resident is added to the SBOMS body’s entries.

Residents who have dropped from training are fully entitled to continue their residency programs after submitting all the necessary documents proving the training earlier in accordance with the following conditions:

• To complete the training in the centers accredited by the SBOMS.
• Any interruption for more than two years, the resident doctor will follow the residency program from the point he/she stopped at, but after having a training for two months not calculated as part of the residence program.
• A drop-out resident is entitled to his/her primary exam rates, if he/she has passed it successfully before he/she stopped.

If the identification documents of the resident doctor are not available, he/she is verified as being a former resident through an investigation committee formed by SBOMS then the responsible scientific council conducts an interview and makes a detailed examination that determines his/ her current training level, and academic year.

1. All the resident doctors registered in the Syrian Board for Medical Specialties and dropped out of training are asked to show their training status. They enroll in training in one of the accredited training hospitals within a month, and in case of not responding, the registration is stopped for an entire year. The doctor will be dismissed from SBOMS residency registration in case of non-compliance with the duties and officially declared on the SBOMS official.
2. Resident doctors registered in the Syrian Board for Medical Specialties and have completed their training and have not sat for the final exam for more than two examination sessions are required to submit their examinations during one of the two examination sessions in 2021 dismissed from the residency program.
3. Resident doctors who are not registered in the Syrian Board for Medical Specialties and who have completed their training are required to apply for registration in SBOMS and submit the final exam during the first or second sessions of 2021, or they will not be admitted to SBOMS residency program after that date.
4. Doctors who graduate from the Syrian Board for Medical Specialties with Specialization will be requested to terminate their contracts. Organizations and entities where these doctors work will also be asked to terminate any contracts with those doctors to allow the opportunity to accept new residents instead of them.
5. Resident physicians for Specialization not allowed to practice as specialists in the specialty throughout the training period, whether it was done within a public hospital or private health center, even under the permission of the donating hospital or organization, and if non-compliance of the resident doctor is proven, he /she will have a registered warning for one time. He / she will be dismissed from the residency program in case of non-compliance after the warning.
6. All doctors wishing to join the residency program of SBOMS are required to have spent two full years in the areas of northwestern Syria to be entitled to start the residency and training program.
7. The end of 2021 is a deadline for exceptional dealings with former residents, and all residents will be treated through uniformed policy at the beginning of 2022.