This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills, knowledge and experiential learning to enter the field of professional medicine.
Type: graduate degree
Duration: 5 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Health psychology
- Health policy and service provision
- Doctor and his environment
- Epidemiology and biostatistics
- Concepts of health and disease
- Molecules of body
- Tissue of the body
- Development of the body
- Structure of the body
- Electrical systems of the body
- General skills
Second year subjects:
- Principles of therapy and imaging
- Urinary system
- Musculoskeletal system
- Immunology and haematology
- Cardiovascular system
- Metabolism
- Infections
- Membranes and receptors
- Mechanisms of disease
Third year subjects:
- Gastrointestinal system
- Human diversity
- Health and disease in populations
- Human life cycle
- Respiratory system
- Ethical and legal aspects of medicine
- Genital system
- Reproduction
- Exocrine and endocrine glands
- Nervous system
Fourth year subjects:
- Internal medicine (cardiology/neurology)
- Surgery
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Psychiatry (oncology)
Fifth year subjects:
- Internal medicine
- Surgery
- Child health and psychiatry
- Gynaecology and urology
- Family medicine and anaesthesiology
- Electives (refer to university prospectus)
Careers: doctor, specialist, surgeon.
Source: www.ufs.ac.za