Postgraduate and Research - Interdisciplinary Courses Structure

Postgraduate and Research

Course coding, Hours per Week and Per Semester

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