Undergraduate Programme
The Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences provides the first foundation of clinical programmes for medical students as well as training in introductory pharmacology for students in the faculty of Health Sciences and Technology in our University.
The second professional (3rd MB.BS) examination for medical students is primarily conducted by the faculty, with the exam taken at the end of 4th year. It is a 12 month training in Basic Clinical Sciences that comprises courses in Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Pathology (Chemical Pathology, Haematology and Immunology, Medical Microbiology and Morbid Anatomy).
Only bonafide medical students are considered eligible for admission into the programme for the second professional examination in the faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences after obtaining a minimum score of 50% in Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry in the first professional examination.
Postgraduate programmes
The Faculty currently runs Postgraduate programmes in the departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Haematology and Immunology.
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics:
M.Sc/PhD/MD – Pharmacology & Therapeutics
M.Sc/PhD/MD – Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Pharmacology
M.Sc/PhD/MD – Chemo-Immuno Pharmacology
PGD/M.Sc/PhD – Ethnopharmacology and Traditional Medicine
M.Sc/PhD – Pharmaco Economics and Pharmaco Epidemiology
Department of Haematology and Immunology
M.Sc/PhD –Haematology and Immunology
The following postgraduate programmes : – Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Pharmacology; Chemo-Immuno Pharmacology; Ethnopharmacology and Traditional Medicine; Pharmaco Economics and Pharmaco Epidemiology were recently approved.
The programme in Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Pharmacology equips students with skills required in the detection, analysis, and consultation pertaining to adverse drug effects that result in harm, criminal activity, or death. Forensic Pharmacology is specifically the use of toxicology and other disciplines such as analytical chemistry, clinical pharmacology, and clinical chemistry to aid medical or legal investigation of death, poisoning, and drug use.
The Chemo-immunopharmacology programme offers a rigorous and diverse postgraduate curriculum of studies ranging from classical chemotherapeutics of infectious diseases and chemotherapeutics of cancers to the immuno-therapeutics of a wide range of disorders.
Ethnopharmacology and traditional Medicine integrates aspects of botany, natural products chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, anthropology, medicine, psychology and comparative religious study. The programme provides the graduate with the relevant knowledge base, skills, attitudes, ethics and values to engage in advanced natural drugs and natural medicines level research, product development, production and business practice.
Pharmacoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology are new emerging areas of study. The central philosophies or goals behind Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology are improving drug prescription, improved provision and utilization of health products, better risk management and improvement of health outcomes.