University of Dodoma Faculty of Medicine
UDOM Faculty of Medicine
University of Dodoma Faculty of Medicine : Programme Description
The Doctor of Medicine is a full time five years, ten semester programme. Each year academic year is made of 40 weeks organized in two semesters. Each semester is made of 18 teaching weeks and two examination weeks. There is an inter semester short vacation of two weeks. All courses in Doctor of Medicine programme have core status; that is every student must take all courses; there is no room for elective courses.
Training is organized into basic sciences (first to third year) in which courses which impart necessary foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes are taught, and clinical training (fourth and fifth year), in which students are taught to take history from patients, examine, order and interpret appropriate investigation, make treatment plan, participate in treating patients in wards, outpatients departments and theatre and make a follow up of such treatments. During clinical training, students are also taught to prevent the various diseases which affect individual at community level. Students are expected to exit at fifth year ready for clinical practice as intern doctors.
University of Dodoma Faculty of Medicine : Programme objectives
The MD programme is intended to achieve the following objectives:
- To train a general duty medical doctor who has broad knowledge of common human diseases with emphasis on diseases endemic in tropical countries.
- To produce medical doctors with skills and competencies that will enable them to manage and deliver preventive and curative health services efficiently.
- To develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills among medical doctors.
- To develop training and research capacity of the medical doctor.
- To promote good ethical conduct in the practice of medicine.
University of Dodoma Faculty of Medicine Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this program, the medical graduate should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of normal and abnormal structure, function, development and growth of the human body and personality.
- Evaluate patients clinically and by laboratory investigations to reach appropriate diagnosis.
- Administer correct medical and surgical interventions to the patients and refer where appropriate.
- Manage health services at different levels of the health delivery system.
- Identify and provide relevant preventive and curative community health services according to national and community priorities.
- Conduct relevant training and supervision of other health personnel.
- Conduct research and utilize the findings to improve the quality of health services.
- Keep updated with advances in medical and health fields through continuing education.
- Abide to good ethical conduct.
- Apply entrepreneurial skills in health management practices
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