Clinical skills training
Direct, supervised practice on core clinical skills: cannulation and blood draw, surgical suturing, first aid, and working with mechanical ventilators.
Learning starts with practice.
A student-led, non-profit medical education team in Gaza. We turn what health students learned on a screen into skill they can do with their hands.
Skills we have trained
6 clinical skills · 7 courses · since August 2026
- Suturing
- IV cannulation & blood draw
- First aid
- Mechanical ventilation
- ECG
- Clinical nutrition
About us
It started with one student noticing a gap.
Misbar Medical Team was founded on 19 July 2026 by Mustafa Hassan Abu Rahma, a medical student who saw that years of online learning had left his peers in Gaza’s health faculties without hands-on practice.
What began as an idea became, within weeks, a working team: a first course in basic nursing skills, then suturing, first aid, mechanical ventilation, ECG and clinical nutrition, each one taught by doctors and specialists who volunteer their time.
Misbar (مِسبار) means probe: an instrument that reaches places others can’t. That is our job: to reach health students in Gaza wherever they are.
Misbar is not a hospital, a clinic or a treatment provider. It is an education platform and a student community built on practical training.
Our vision
To be the first place health science students in Gaza turn to for building practical skills, through a learning community that joins knowledge, practice and research.
Our mission
To turn theoretical knowledge into practical skill through courses and workshops led by doctors and specialists, open to as many health students as possible.
Why it matters
Between the lecture hall and the bedside, there is a gap.
Long years of remote learning cost many health students in Gaza their interactive lectures and direct clinical practice. They learned procedures from a screen. Their hands are still waiting.
- Structured practical training is scarce, especially for students who cannot afford private training centres.
- There is no shared learning space where students from different health disciplines practise together.
- Students need simple, reliable medical content written for them.
- Conditions in Gaza’s health sector make regular hands-on training harder than usual.
What we do
Three areas, one goal: health students who can do, not only recite.
Research & academic development
Activities that build scientific reading and research thinking, and reliable, simplified medical content made for students.
A student community
Around 400 students from medicine, nursing, anaesthesia and other health fields sharing knowledge, opportunities and volunteer work.
Programs delivered
Our course log
Seven courses delivered under the supervision of doctors and specialists. A record, not a plan on paper.
4–6 August 2026
Basic nursing skills
17 August 2026
Basic suturing skills (1)
22 August 2026
Mechanical ventilation
8 September 2026
Basic suturing skills (2)
8–10 September 2026
First aid
15 September 2026
ECG interpretation
22 September to 1 October 2026
Clinical nutrition
The log stays open. Next: more clinical skills, more disciplines, more students.
Every clinical skills course is supplementary training. It does not replace accredited academic qualification, and does not authorise students to perform a procedure on a real patient without licensed supervision.
Sponsor the next courseOur impact
Two months in, this is the record.
- Courses delivered
- 7
- Students trained
- 350+
- Volunteer team members
- 25
- Students in our community
- ~400
What we are measuring next: pre- and post-test results for each course, participants by university and faculty, the share who later applied a skill in a real clinical setting, and participant satisfaction. We will publish them when they are complete, not before.
From the field
Inside the training rooms: hands learning, trainers correcting, and students from different disciplines at one table.
From an idea to a delivered course
Every program follows the same ten steps, so a sponsor knows exactly what their support becomes.
- Identify a training need among students.
- Choose the topic and the target skill.
- Engage the right trainer or partner.
- Prepare the content and supplies.
- Open registration to students.
- Handle logistics and on-site setup.
- Deliver the program, theory and practice.
- Document the activity in photos and writing.
- Collect evaluations from trainer and participants.
- Follow up and measure longer-term impact.
25 volunteers, seven areas of work
- Program coordination and leadership
- Design and visual content
- Media, outreach and social platforms
- Field organisation and operations
- Registration and participant records
- Photography and documentation
- Training, under supervision of doctors and specialists
Members change; the way we work stays the same.
Our principles
- Accessibility
- Training open to as many students as possible.
- Practical learning
- Practice comes before memorisation.
- Academic integrity
- Accuracy and credibility in everything we teach.
- Collaboration
- Side by side with doctors and academic institutions.
- Volunteerism
- Real volunteer effort from the team and trainers.
- Dignity before pity
- We treat students as future colleagues, never as victims.
Join our mission
No formal partners yet. A real record already.
Misbar has no formally accredited institutional partnerships yet; talks with some universities and organisations are under way. What we offer any supporter is a team that has already proven it delivers.
Donate directly
Your donation covers training supplies and the running costs of our courses. The whole team volunteers; no salaries are paid. Every supporter receives a report on what their gift made possible.
Fund a course
Sponsor a full training program, or cover its supplies: suture kits, cannulas, dressings and training equipment.
DonatePartner with us
Universities, hospitals and organisations can host a course, co-develop educational resources, run joint research, or accredit certificates.
Become a partnerTrain with us
Doctors and specialists, in Gaza or across the diaspora, can volunteer as trainers or content reviewers.
Volunteer as a trainerWhy support Misbar
- Direct reach to hundreds of health students in Gaza.
- A 25-member volunteer team able to run a training program end to end.
- A real record of 7 delivered courses.
- Every activity documented, visually and administratively.
- Transparent reporting on impact and spending to every supporter.
- Flexible delivery within the conditions on the ground.
Ways to collaborate
- Sponsor a program
- Fund a complete training program.
- Host a training
- Host a course at your premises.
- Provide clinical trainers
- Doctors or specialists to lead sessions.
- Academic partnership
- A formal partnership with a university or faculty, with accredited certificates.
- In-kind support
- Training supplies and equipment.
- Research collaboration
- A joint research project.
- Educational resources
- Co-developed learning content.
- Long-term partnership
- A program partnership across several courses.
Help us train Gaza’s next health workers.
Donate through PayPal, or tell us how you would like to help. We reply to every message and report back on what your support made possible.
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