DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORAL
SCIENCES
Chairperson
Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry and Social Behavioural Sciences. The department takes pride in offering the best knowledge and teaching methods to medical students in the faculty of medicine. The department teaches several courses under the new Bachelor of Science in Medical Sciences (BMS) program as well as the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). We provide core courses in Psychiatry and Social Behavioural Sciences. Our department is aimed at improving the quality of medical doctors in the country by training them on the important aspects of communication, policy, psychology, and human behaviour. Psychology courses aim to enhance theoretical knowledge of psychopathology, therapeutic interventions, and therapeutic modalities through lectures and clinical instruction. Here is a list of the core topics we teach in the faculty.
Our Programmes
- Information literacy and Digital Skills
- Introduction to medical ethics and medical law
- Language and communication skills
- Health governance, policy management and health care financing
- Sociology and Psychology for health Sciences (Sociology and Psychology for health Sciences I and Sociology and Psychology for health Sciences II)
- Health Information Systems,
- Health Management Systems,
- Psychology of Health,
- Sociology of Health and Illness,
- Health communication Skills,
- Health Policy and Leadership,
- Organisational Behaviour and Health Governance.
Our department also takes pride in the resources and skills that it hosts in developing new curriculum and degree programs. Our team has recently successfully developed 4 new degree programs that have been approved by the university and will be rolled out soon. The details of the programs are as follows:
- Master of Science in Global Health (MGH) (Coming Soon),
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Health Information Management (HIM) (Coming soon)
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Physiotherapy (Coming Soon)
- BSc (Hon) Occupational Therapy (Coming soon)
- Module on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (Coming soon)