JOIN OUR MBBS STUDY PROGRAMME OR HUMAN BIOLOGY STUDY PROGRAMME
Each year approximately more than 150 students enter the faculty to follow the MBBS degree programme. Our graduates secure high ranks in the common merit order and excel at postgraduate examinations both locally and internationally securing competitive positions in clinical and academic fields. A revised curriculum based on integrated teaching learning methods has been adopted to suit the changing needs of the employment market throughout the world.
The Faculty is unique in that it was the first Medical Faculty to offer degree programmes in Allied Health Sciences. The degree programmes in Human Biology, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing and Pharmacy has produced graduates in these fields who continue to be pioneers in their respective fields.
MBBS STUDY PROGRAMME
The integrated MBBS curriculum with a preclinical phase, a para clinical phase and a clinical phase combines sound theoretical knowledge with practical skills in laboratory settings and applications in real life situations through teaching learning activities in many diverse setting. Clinical teaching takes place in 2 teaching hospitals; Colombo South teaching hospital and Sri Jayewardenepura General hospital and many other local health care facilities and preventive health care is learned at the Boralesgamuwa Medical officer of Health area.
B.SC. HUMAN BIOLOGY STUDY PROGRAMME
The course was initiated in 1994 at the Faulty of Medical Sciences with the intention of fulfilling the need to provide human resources for Medical and Health sciences faculties and to provide research institutes, private sector institutions involved in food and nutrition, public and private sector diagnostic institutions and health policy making institutions with individuals with necessary knowledge and skills.
