Hussa Z. AlOuda
MD, MRCP(UK)
Internal Medicine Physician · Kuwait
Clinical medicine · medical education · founder, The MOC
Internal Medicine physician in Kuwait with interests in acute and general medicine, medical education and clinical decision-making. Chief Resident for three years, teaching medical students and junior doctors alongside clinical work. Founder and editor of The MOC, an independent clinical education platform for doctors in training.
CURRENT POSITION
Resident, Internal Medicine
Final year from Oct 2026. Expected completion 2027.
Clinical training
Rotational training across five teaching hospitals in Kuwait: Farwaniya, Amiri, Mubarak Al-Kabeer, Jaber and Ibn Sina. Two intensive care blocks and two coronary care blocks, emergency medicine, medical consultations, and subspecialty rotations in neurology, nephrology, haematology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, rheumatology, respirology, geriatrics, microbiology and oncology, alongside general and acute internal medicine throughout.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
MRCP(UK)
PACES passed February 2026 in all seven skill domains. Written Part 2, 2023. Part 1, 2023.
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSc)
Certification
ACLS Provider, current to 2028. Point-of-care ultrasound training, 2022 and 2023.
LEADERSHIP
Chief Resident
Three years representing residents on the Residency Programme Committee, communicating resident concerns and programme decisions between the cohort and committee.
Vice President, Internal Affairs
Head of the organising committee
Head of Media Committee
TEACHING
Examiner, MegaOSCE
Invited speaker, “Before You Begin”
Invited talk on entering medical training, incorporating The Capsule, a bilingual mentorship project bringing together written and recorded advice from doctors across stages of training.
“Navigating Ward Calls”
Ongoing
Supervision and teaching of interns, junior residents and medical students as part of clinical work. Bedside teaching, case discussion, and clinical skills sessions for preclinical and final-year students. Clinical skills training at the annual first-year medical camp.
EDUCATIONAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS
Independently published clinical education material. Not peer-reviewed.
Founder and Editor, MOC
An independent clinical education platform for internal medicine trainees. I develop, write and edit its clinical educational content, drawing on primary literature and current guidelines.
Acute Medicine Series
Acute Infections · Cardiopulmonary Emergencies · Acute Neurology · Acute Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Acute Haematology and Rheumatology · Acute Endocrinology and Nephrology
Every chapter follows one fixed structure: immediate approach, how to think, what to do next, disposition, common mistakes. Dr Farah AlHouti contributed to the neurology volume.
IM Rapid Review
A postgraduate internal medicine review built around pattern recognition, clinical reasoning and next-step management.
Ward-call clinical library
Forty-six structured references covering vitals, laboratory results and the presenting complaints that generate on-call pages, plus inpatient prescribing guides, clinical documentation templates, and career and examination guidance for trainees.
Clinical tools
An arterial and venous blood gas interpreter. A free on-call checklist. Offline access for use on the ward.
Contributing author, Medicine Survival Booklet
A student-written clinical reference for Kuwait University medical students, sponsored by the 6ebeya student body, written by around thirty contributors.
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Closing the Screening Gap
A departmental quality improvement project that raised screening completion from 23% to 57%, meeting its aim, developed through successive PDSA cycles.
RESEARCH AND PRESENTATIONS
LDL-C and acute coronary syndrome
Co-author and sub-investigator.
Selected departmental presentations
- Pulmonary renal syndrome in the intensive care unit. Weekly ICU and anaesthesia departmental meeting. 2026
- Journal club: phase 3 trial of seladelpar in primary biliary cholangitis. Gastroenterology, Amiri. 2024
- Secondary prevention of stroke, antiplatelet agents beyond aspirin and clopidogrel. Farwaniya. 2023
- Approach to shock. Jaber Hospital. 2023
- Non-thyroidal illness syndrome. Endocrine morning meeting, Amiri. 2023
- Guillain-Barré syndrome, taught to final-year medical students. Ibn Sina. 2023
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Membership
Kuwait Medical Association, since 2021.
Languages
Arabic and English.
Community work
Volunteered through the COVID-19 pandemic at the International Fairground field facility and the Al Amiri Hospital pharmacy. Public screening campaigns with 6EBEYA and KuMSA at the Avenues Mall, one of which screened over 2,000 people. Humanitarian trips to Kenya and to Jordan.
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Last updated · August 2026