The Postgraduate Programme is made up of two parts (Part I and II), distributed over eight (8) semesters, and taking 4 years as follows:
Year 1 (Part I) Semester
1 and 2
Year | Code | Medicine | HRS | Paediatrics | HRS | Surgery | HRS | OBGY | HRS |
1 | PHY 600 | Physiology | 72 | Physiology | 72 | Physiology | 72 | Physiology | 72 |
PAT 600 | Pathology | 72 | Pathology | 72 | Pathology | 72 | Pathology | 72 |
BCH 600 | Biochemistry | 72 | Biochemistry | 72 | Biochemistry | 72 | Biochemistry | 72 |
MIC 600 | Microbiology | 70 | Microbiology | 72 | Microbiology | 72 | Microbiology | 72 |
PAR 600 | Parasitology/ Immunology | 44 | Parasitology/ Immunology | 44 | - | - | Parasitology/ Immunology | 44 |
PHC 600 | Pharmacology | 72 | Pharmacology | 72 | - | - | Pharmacology | 72 |
PH 600 | - | - | Psychology | 10 | - | - | - | - |
ANT 600 | - | - | - | - | Anatomy | 180 | Anatomy | 180 |
BS 600 | Biostatistics/ Epidemiology Research
Methodology | 36 | Biostatistics/ Epidemiology Research Methodology | 36 | Biostatistics/ Epidemiology Research Methodology | 36 | Biostatistics/ Research Methodology | 36 |
EP 600 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Epidemiology/ ICT | 36 |
HAM 600 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Hosp Adm and Finance Management | 10 |
Each discipline will at least have four (4)
examinable basic science subjects to offer during the first year.
There will also be clinical training alongside the
basic sciences in all disciplines during the first year (Part I).
Year 2 to Year 4 (Part II) Semester 3
to 8
Year | Medicine | Paediatrics | Surgery | OBGY |
2 | Clinical
Medicine: - Body systems, systematically.
- Clinical features and diagnosis.
- Management and natural history.
- Research proposal.
| Description
of: - Dissertation; proposal write-up.
- Clinical situations affecting the child from
perinatal period to birth, and from neonatology to adolescence.
- Aetiology, pathogenesis.
- Clinical features, investigations, treatment and
follow-up.
| - Research proposal.
- Data collection.
- Case collection and analysis.
- Clinical surgery
| - Clinical OBGY and hospital activities.
- Journal club; case presentations, seminars.
- Dissertation.
- Clinical rotations.
- Radiotherapy (for two weeks at ORCI).
- Neonatology (2 weeks)
- Surgery/Urology (4 weeks)
- OBGY (16 weeks)
|
3 | - Dissertation.
- Clinical subspecialties e.g. pulmonary medicine;
renal medicine; cardiology.
| - Dissertation: data collection and writing.
- Clinical rotations – two rotations in the year.
- Journal club; case presentations; seminars.
| - Dissertation writing.
- Clinical surgery.
| - Dissertation.
- Hospital/clinical activities.
- Journal clubs.
- Seminars, case presentations.
|
4 | - Psychiatry – 4 weeks.
- Geriatric Medicine – 4
weeks
- Research for
publication in the year
-
Journal club
- Case presentations
- Seminars
| - Clinical rotations – two in the year.
- Dissertation – final write-up.
- Journal club; case; Ob/Gy (4 (wks); Internal Medicine (4 wks);
Paediatric Psychiatry (2 wks); ENT (2 wks) presentation.
- Seminars.
| - Specialties clinical rotations.
- 1.OBGY – 4 weeks.
- 2.Paediatrics – 8
weeks.
- 3.Ortho/Trauma – 6
months.
- 4.ENT – 6 weeks.
| - Dissertation
- Hospital/Clinical
activities
- Journal clubs
- Seminars; case
presentation
- Mock examination
- Final qualifying
examination
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