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Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

The Medical curriculum emphasizes a student-centred, small-group, problem-based, and integrated approach to learning. A variety of learning methods, including lectures, laboratory sessions/demonstrations, small group tutorials, communication/clinical skill sessions, community/hospital visits, computer-assisted learning programmes, and self-learning are used. Through the use of stimulus problems, students are encouraged to explore the hierarchy of systems from molecules, cells, tissues, organs and major body systems to the patient as an individual, and as a member of a family, a community and a population. The curriculum is designed to emphasize and integrate the four key themes of human biology in health and disease, doctors and patients, medicine and society and becoming a doctor.

The MBBS curriculum lasts for 10 semesters, spread over 5 years. The first semester is an Introduction to Health and Disease Course. This provides and introductory overview of the structure and function of the human body, in which students examine the interaction between different levels in the system, and so take a holistic view of human biology.

For the following three semesters, the curriculum consists of interdisciplinary, system-based modules, each lasting for six weeks. These include:

• cardiovascular system
• respiratory system
• gastrointestinal system
• renal and genitourinary system
• endocrine system
• haematology & immunology
• musculoskeletal system
• central nervous system
• head and rock system

In the fifth semester, the curriculum focusses on multi-system problems, and so helps the students to integrate the knowledge they have acquired during the earlier parts of the course. For the remaining five semesters, the emphasis shift to the clinical management of patients, as students rotate through a series of clerkships in the major medical disciplines.

Physiology is addressed extensively throughout the first 5 semesters, and to a smaller extent, it is revisited during the clinical training semesters. Any students who have a particular interest in Physiology are able to explore the subject in more detail by selecting some of the Physiology topics from a range of special study modules (electives).