School of Medicine
Botswana has finally established its very first medical school after years of intensive planning to get this project underway. It has already admitted a total of 36 top students specially selected from BSc and Premed who will be pioneers of "SoM" beginning in August 2009.
The Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) professional degree is a 5 year programme. The first two years will follow an integrated Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach. The last three years are clinically structured providing the opportunity to practice in the hospital and community. Although at present a warehouse is being utilized, the Faculty of Health Science building will be completed in first half of 2010. A 450 bed academic hospital is also being constructed and is due for completion in 2013.
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