- Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) or its equivalent with at least 5 passes
- Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) or its equivalent with at least 2 principal passes.
- An Honors degree from an accredited degree awarding institution
- Candidates who have a Pass degree should have at least a Postgraduate Diploma with at least a credit from an accredited degree awarding institution.
Additionally, for international applicants:
- Applicants whose first language or medium of instruction is not English, must provide evidence from a recognized English language training institution that they have sufficient command of English language.
- Applicants should have their documents verified by NCHE.
- Applicants should have their degree certificate and transcript translated and converted into an equivalent of Ugandan Universities’ CGPA
For applicants to clinical programmes;
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- Have documentary evidence of Internship Training indicating disciplines and dates.
- Be registered or eligible for registration with Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.
- A current certificate of good standing with the Medical Practitioners’ Council of the country of origin.
An honors degree in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
Code |
PROGRAMME |
DURATION |
UGANDAN STUDENTS |
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS |
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|
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TUITION (SHS.) per Semester |
FUNCTIONAL FEES (SHS.) per year |
TUITION (SHS.) per Semester |
FUNCTIONAL FEES (SHS.) per year |
MMED |
Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine |
3 |
1,400,000 |
1,270,000 |
2,800,000 |
2,540,000 |
Other Fees | ||
ITEM | Ugandan | International |
NCHE | 20,000 | USD. 50 |
Smart ID Card | 33,000 | USD. 10 |
Application Fees Undergraduate | 50,000 | USD. 50 |
Application Completion programmes | 80,000 | USD. 50 |
Application Fees Postgraduate | 50,000 | USD. 50 |
Application Fees PHD | 100,000 | USD. 100 |
Certification Fees | 3,000 | |
Graduation Fees | 20,000 | USD. 50 |
Transcript Fees | 25,000 | USD. 50 |
Certificate Fees | 25,000 | USD. 50 |
Partial Transcript | 20,000 | USD. 10 |
Convocation | 10,000 | USD. 50 |
Retake Fees | 30,000 | USD. 10 |
Application Fees for Change of Programme | 10,000 | USD. 10 |
Replacement of Admission Letter | 10,000 | USD. 10 |
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The Master of Medicine programme for Internal Medicine is a three-year post-graduate programme in adult medicine. Successful completion of this programme results in the degree of Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology.
The programme was introduced at the University in 2001. Support at the outset came from The Tropical Health and Education Trust in London. Teaching incorporated regular visits from international experts as well as teaching from the staff of the Internal Medicine Department and other local departments. Currently, the department has built the capacity of past graduates who are now in charge of teaching, clinical care, and research. Since its inception, the programme has regularly produced successful graduates, all of whom are now providing specialist medical care in Uganda and abroad. During the programme, the candidates are based in Mbarara at the University and integrated Referral Hospital, apart from during annual leave and agreed periods of study leave to pursue special interests
A cycle of lectures and tutorials is provided by internal and external teachers so that all the topics of general medicine are covered, as well as epidemiology and biostatistics, during the three years. Students are required to complete a research project during their first year, an audit in the second year, and work for their thesis dissertation in the second and third years. Nominated supervisors will assist them with this work. There is also the opportunity to spend up to six weeks in different specialist clinics/rotations to further knowledge and clinical skills. Additionally, during the second year, students will be required to complete attachments with the Intensive Care team, Hospice, and the community. Students in the programme will also gain teaching experience from themselves teaching and assessing the undergraduate medical students.
Students gain a vast amount of clinical experience from attending the daily post-take medical rounds and rotating through attachment to the different medical teams. Throughout the year they are expected to be on the regular ward rounds, the basic working day being 8 am to 10 pm. Outside these hours, they also need to be available for emergency cover (in rotation) during the week and the weekends. They rotate through periods spent attending the general medical outpatient clinic, and the neurology, epilepsy, respiratory, diabetes, cardiology, gastroenterology, endoscopy, haematology and oncology, renal, TB, and HIV clinics.
2.2 Programme justification / rationale
There is a need throughout Uganda for medical doctors with specialist training in internal medicine so that they are available to provide optimal medical care for the public. Internal Medicine is a very large component of medicine with many major subspecialty areas and so is an essential component of medical education. This course aims to produce specialists able to provide health care in hospitals at all levels, and also care and medical advice in the community. There is a particular emphasis on preventive and primary care medicine. Graduates from the course will also be exposed to training opportunities in research and teaching and so be able to contribute to the advancement of medical knowledge, particularly in those areas important to health in Uganda.
Career and Employment opportunities
Upon completion of the programme, students will be competent to take up the responsibilities of specialist physicians in both rural and urban settings. They should have the knowledge and experience to be effective teachers to medical students and others within the health system. And they should have incorporated the knowledge to be able to analyse and take part in medical research. They will have reached the point from where they can, if they so desire, pursue further specialist training within the burgeoning subspecialties of Internal Medicine necessary for modern health care.
Overall Aim
The primary aim of the programme is to equip medical doctors with the knowledge and skills to be effective specialist physicians in adult medicine.
2.4.1 Specific Objectives
- To enable students to acquire the level of medical knowledge expected of a specialist physician providing medical care. This will include the need to demonstrate competency in biostatistics and epidemiology and skill in assessing the medical literature with a view to enabling and encouraging lifelong learning. Expertise in the clinical assessment of patients with medical disorders will be an essential competency to learn.
- To expose students to various responsibilities for the development of skills in being in charge of medical service.
- To teach students how to analyse publications on clinical and research work to inculcate a habit of continuous medical education i.e., lifelong effective learning
- To facilitate the students to complete their own research projects, culminating in a dissertation on their own research to be defended in the final year. For many students, it has proved the case that this has resulted in the objective of continuing research in a Ugandan context post-graduation.
2.4.2 Programme Outcomes
By the end of the programme, the trainee shall:
- Exhibit professional skills in the management of patients with different medical conditions
- Be able to identify and diagnose different medical conditions
- Provide comprehensive emergency care in internal medicine.
- Be competent specialists in Internal Medicine.
- Employ relevant methods of assessing patients with different medical conditions.
- Be able to use preventive and therapeutic interventions effectively including procedures in a safe, appropriate, and timely manner
- Function in a multidisciplinary clinical team and have the ability to seek appropriate consultation from other health professionals, recognizing the limits of their own expertise
- Demonstrate effective communication skills.
- Be able to carry out quality improvement and research projects.
- Perform specialised procedures in internal medicine.
- Conceptualise and perform scientific research.
Innovations
The programme is rapidly evolving to enable students to get the maximum experience of the various subspecialties of internal medicine. To this end, specialist services now include cardiology, respiratory medicine, renal medicine, diabetes, oncology, HIV and TB medicine, and GI endoscopy. Plans for a major cancer center, linked with the Uganda Cancer Institute, are well advanced. There is the intention to further integrate with the emergency medicine service to advance teaching in that area. With the set-up of these subspecialty clinics, the attending physicians are able to link with existing clinics both locally and internationally and this has enabled the sharing of information via the use of ICT. The department of internal medicine has webinar case conferences with the University of Virginia, Royal Free hospital, UK, and encourages the trainees to prepare and lead the case discussions.
Curriculum structure
Year one, semester one
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 7101 |
Epidemiology |
Core |
24 |
102 |
0 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7102 |
Infectious diseases 1 |
Core |
39 |
72 |
0 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7103 |
Cardiovascular diseases 1 |
Core |
26 |
90 |
8 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7104 |
Respiratory diseases 1 |
Core |
25 |
98 |
2 |
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
20 |
Year one, semester two
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 7201 |
Gastroenterology 1 |
Core |
21 |
102 |
6 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7202 |
Haemato-oncology, palliative care 1 |
Core |
41 |
68 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 7203 |
Nephrology 1 |
Core |
23 |
92 |
12 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7204 |
Neurology 1 |
Core |
25 |
100 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 7205 |
Clinical Methods 1 |
Core |
- |
150 |
|
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
25 |
Year one, recess term
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 7301 |
Introduction to Research methods 1 |
Core |
|
145 |
5 |
75 |
5 |
MED 7302 |
Introduction to research methods 2 |
Core |
|
148 |
2 |
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
Year two, Semester one
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 8101 |
Gastroenterology 2 |
Core |
16 |
118 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 8102 |
Rheumatology |
Core |
22 |
106 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 8103 |
Endocrinology |
Core |
25 |
100 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 8104 |
Haemato-oncology and palliative care 2 |
Core |
23 |
104 |
|
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
20 |
Year two, semester two
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 8201 |
HIV medicine |
Core |
22 |
76 |
|
60 |
4 |
MED 8202 |
Infectious Diseases 2 |
Core |
23 |
104 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 8203 |
Cardiovascular diseases 2 |
Core |
22 |
106 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 8204 |
Clinical Methods II |
Core |
|
150 |
|
75 |
5 |
|
Total Semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
19 |
Year two /Recess term
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 8301 |
Research proposal development |
Core |
|
145 |
5 |
75 |
5 |
MED 8302 |
Clinical Audit |
Core |
|
145 |
5 |
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
Year three, semester one
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 9101 |
Biostatistics |
Core |
30 |
42 |
18 |
60 |
4 |
MED 9102 |
Nephrology 2 |
Core |
22 |
106 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 9103 |
Neurology 2 |
Core |
25 |
100 |
|
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
|
14 |
Year three, semester two
Course Code |
Course Title |
Status |
LH |
PH |
TH |
CH |
CU |
MED 9201 |
Respiratory diseases 2 |
Core |
21 |
106 |
2 |
75 |
5 |
MED 9202 |
Advanced Clinical Methods |
Core |
0 |
150 |
|
75 |
5 |
MED 9203 |
Advanced Internal Medicine theory |
Core |
60 |
20 |
10 |
75 |
5 |
MED 9204 |
Research project and dissertation |
Core |
0 |
150 |
|
75 |
5 |
|
Total semester load |
|
|
|
|
75 |
20 |
LH=Lecture hours PH=Practical hours CH=Contact Hours CU=Credit Units
Recess term:
During the recess term, the clinical responsibilities of the postgraduates will continue. However, this term adds to the facilitation of time for students to pursue medical experience in the community. Students are expected to spend two weeks at a community health centre, and two weeks with the Intensive care service. The timing of such periods of study will be agreed upon with the postgraduate coordinator.