To acquaint the selected students with modern research methods and to enable them to develop skills in some of these research methods, especially building upon their work of the first and second year courses.
To enable the selected students to obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Science as an indication of their basic potential for specializing later within the fields of Medicine, Physiology and related Biological Sciences.
General Regulations
Candidates will be selected after the end of the second year of the MBChB. course.
The BSc. (anatomy) course will normally be available between the second and third year of the MBChB. degree course.
The course which will be on full time basis extending over three terms will consist of discussion classes, tutorials, practical and filled work with special reference to the development of skills related to conducting original investigations, the analysis of data and the preparation of papers containing original observations. Students will \ be required to present at least two comprehensive review papers per term, the nature of the paper and the precise number to be determined by the department of the Human Anatomy in consultation with the external examiner. Students will be required to undertake extensive guided reading.