Our Service Departments
Department of Anatomy and Physiology
Department of Community Medicine
The Department of Community Medicine teaches principles of primary health care, nutrition, environmental and occupational health and safety, biostatistics and epidemiology, research methodology, maternal and child health care, health education and promotion, basic concepts and principles of public health and global health, communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as patient safety. Students are given the necessary exposure to community medicine and primary health care through attachments to rural and urban primary health care facilities. They are attached to provincial, district and mission hospitals to appreciate community medicine in rural settings. Additionally, they are attached to local, urban council clinics and infectious disease hospitals to gain a critical understanding of the management and control of TB, HIV and other communicable diseases.
Department of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences
The Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry
Department of Surgery and Anaesthetics
Department Paediatrics and Child Health
Aim: the department aims to ground the student in solid principles of history taking examination and management of common Paediatric diseases and conditions. The learning shall be through instilling good clinical acumen, via lectures, tutorials, bedside teaching, seminars and presentations. At the end of it all we aim to produce a well-rounded cadre who can work well in the region and beyond. A cadre who can clerk, examine synthesize and manage both common and complex Paediatric conditions practicing evidence based Paediatrics and refer appropriately.