"The Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP) presents to you its compliments"

In the Department of Healthcare Professions' (DHP) pursuit to recognize the role of healthcare professionals who are not clinically practice however, their roles are indirectly affecting the patient safety and society welfare, and for the sake of establishing a framework that acknowledges their qualifications, in addition to protecting their medical titles legally wherever they work and even after retirement; the DHP has developed the attached policy, which emphasizes the following:

• Healthcare professionals, holding a non-clinical role can request for a registration card issued by the DHP, this is applicable for those who work in research, teaching, administrative positions, and retired practitioners (for Qataris only). Please, see the attached policy to find out all the requirements and conditions.

• Healthcare practitioners from the above-mentioned categories (once they meet the required requirements) will obtain a registration card stating their profession and scope of practice (academic, research, or administrative), and stating that they are not authorized to practice clinically and have directly patients encounter.