Prospectus 2022 School of Medicine

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MEDICINE
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NOTE
This Prospectus is only valid for 2022 as regulations and syllabi may be amended for 2022. The general regulations and
further information appear in the General Information and Regulation Prospectus.
Although the information contained in this Prospectus has been compiled as accurately as possible, it is possible that
errors and omissions have inadvertently occurred, for which we apologise in advance. The University reserves the right
to amend any regulation or stipulation without notice. The information is correct up to 30 November 2021.
The fact that particulars of a specific module or programme have been included in this Prospectus does not
necessarily mean that the module or programme will be offered in 2022.
This Prospectus must be read in conjunction with the General Information and Regulations Prospectus 2022.
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STRUCTURE AND PERSONNEL
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DEAN
Executive Dean Prof J Hall
Associate Dean School of Medicine Dr F Christians
Faculty Manager Mr A Fledersbacher
Campus Administrator Ms D Titus
Faculty Officer Ms F Mario
Administrative Officer/Secretary: Office of the ED Ms Y Shaanika
Administrative Officer/Secretary: School of Medicine Ms T Kadhila
Examination Officer Ms L Xoagus
Student Records Officer Mr M Nowaseb
Student Support Officer Mr A Ngwangwama
Administrative/Field Officer Ms R Reinhold
Security Officer Mr H Nakadiva
ICT Officer Mr A Shikongo
ICT Officer Mr S Shilongo
General enquiries regarding the school of Medicine and the qualifications offered by the School should be directed
to:
Ms F Mario
The Faculty Officer
School of Medicine
University of Namibia
Private Bag 13301
WINDHOEK
Telephone: +264-61-2065015
E-mail: fmario@unam.na
Matters regarding specific subjects and departments should be addressed to the relevant Head of Department.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE PREAMBLE................................................................................... 6
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OATH ............................................................................................. 6
ACADEMIC CALENDAR – UNAM CORE DATES 2022 ..................................................... 9
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS OF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ............................................ 11
ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT RULES ............................................................................... 19
Module Title: English for Academic Purposes .................................................................... 25
Module Title: Contemporary Social Issues.......................................................................... 25
Module Title: Computer Literacy ........................................................................................ 26
Module Title: Medical Physics ............................................................................................ 27
Module Title: Embryology and Introduction to Anatomy ................................................... 27
Module Title: Systemic Anatomy I...................................................................................... 28
Module Title: Systemic Anatomy II .................................................................................... 28
Module Title: Organic Chemistry ........................................................................................ 29
Module Title: General Biochemistry I ................................................................................. 29
Module Title: General Biochemistry II................................................................................ 30
Module Title: Medical Microbiology I ................................................................................ 30
Module Title: Medical Microbiology II............................................................................... 31
Module Title: Clinical Microbiology ................................................................................... 31
Module Title: Systems Physiology I .................................................................................... 32
Module Title: Systems Physiology II .................................................................................. 32
Module Title: Pathophysiology............................................................................................ 33
Module Title: Anatomical Pathology................................................................................... 34
Module Title: Chemical Pathology ...................................................................................... 34
Module Title: Haematology ................................................................................................. 35
Module Title: Medical Imaging and Diagnostic .................................................................. 36
Module Title: Sociology of Health and Disease .................................................................. 36
Module Title: Developmental Psychology .......................................................................... 37
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service I ................................................. 38
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service II ................................................ 38
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service III............................................... 39
Module Title: Statistics for Health Sciences........................................................................ 39
Module Title: Epidemiology ................................................................................................ 40
Module Title: Research Methods and Proposal Writing...................................................... 41
Module Title: Nutrition and Dietetics .................................................................................. 41
Module Title: Health Systems Management........................................................................ 42
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Module Title: Electives ........................................................................................................ 43
Module Title: Family Medicine I......................................................................................... 43
Module Title: Family Medicine II ....................................................................................... 44
Module Title: Family Medicine III ...................................................................................... 44
Module Title: Research Project ........................................................................................... 45
Module Title: Pharmacology I ............................................................................................. 45
Module Title: Pharmacology II............................................................................................ 46
Module Title: Pharmacology III .......................................................................................... 47
Module Title: Professional Ethics........................................................................................ 47
Module Title: Anaesthesiology I ......................................................................................... 48
Module Title: Anaesthesiology II ........................................................................................ 48
Module Title: Internal Medicine I........................................................................................ 49
Module Title: Internal Medicine II ...................................................................................... 49
Module Title: Internal Medicine III ..................................................................................... 50
Module Title: Internal Medicine IV..................................................................................... 50
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology I ....................................................................... 51
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology II ..................................................................... 51
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology III .................................................................... 52
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology IV .................................................................... 53
Module Title: Paediatrics I................................................................................................... 53
Module Title: Paediatrics II ................................................................................................. 54
Module Title: Paediatrics III ................................................................................................ 55
Module Title: Paediatrics IV................................................................................................ 55
Module Title: Psychiatry I ................................................................................................... 56
Module Title: Psychiatry II .................................................................................................. 56
Module Title: Psychiatry III................................................................................................. 57
Module Title: Surgery I ....................................................................................................... 57
Module Title: Surgery II ...................................................................................................... 58
Module Title: Surgery III ..................................................................................................... 59
Module Title: Surgery IV..................................................................................................... 59
PROGRAMME ........................................................................................................................ 60
Module Title: Basic Concepts and Practice of Anaesthesiology ........................................ 63
Module Title: Anaesthesiology and Trauma....................................................................... 63
Module Title: Comorbidities and Peri-operative Care........................................................ 64
Module Title: Pathophysiology and Higher Care of Sick Patients ............................... 65
Module Title: Anaesthesiology in Pregnancy ..................................................................... 66
Anaesthesiology and the Child ............................................................................................ 67
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Module Title : Clinical Research Methodology................................................................... 68
Advanced Anaesthesiology I ............................................................................................... 68
Pain in Clinical Practice ....................................................................................................... 69
Management in Anaesthesiology Practice ........................................................................... 70
Clinical Training Core ......................................................................................................... 70
Advanced Anaesthesiology II .............................................................................................. 71
MMed (Anaesthesiology) Thesis ......................................................................................... 72
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE PREAMBLE
The mission of the School of Medicine is to produce health professionals whose knowledge, professional skills, and
practice in medicine are in tune with the needs of society (practice patterns, and scientific advancements). The
School shall provide a learning environment conducive to the pursuit of professional competence by health workers,
while providing quality services to the community and undertaking relevant translational research for enhancement
of health. The School will continually strive for the establishment of training programs in a wide spectrum of health
disciplines and lending support to the human resource development initiatives of the country, including post-graduate
education of physicians and scientists. The School is mandated to prepare graduates for the medical degree of the
University of Namibia.
The key objectives of the School of Medicine are:
▪ To promote equity of access to health care services for all;
▪ To promote affordable health care service delivery by strengthening health care systems which are
sustainable, cost-effective, efficient and culturally relevant and acceptable;
▪ To institute measures to counter major health risks including the prevailing communicable diseases;
▪ To develop academically and professionally qualified medical doctors in sufficient numbers for manning
various health care delivery systems;
▪ To contribute to the development of a national health care system that is capable of providing a fully
comprehensive range of preventive, curative and rehabilitative health care that is cost-effective,
sustainable and acceptable to the recipients of such health care services;
▪ To conduct research directed to the health care needs of the Namibian society at large, and which is
instrumental in ensuring quality health care service delivery.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OATH

All (Students and Faculty):
We pledge to serve our patients, their families, our community and each other with respect, competence,
compassion, and humility. We hold as our ideal to care and treat all of our patients. From them we will learn. We
hold as our ideal the advancement of knowledge. Through it disease will be understood, prevented and cured. We
hold as our ideal open-minded collaboration. To this we are collectively committed.
We hold as our ideal critical self-evaluation. Through this we will grow.
Faculty:
We, your faculty, promise to serve as worthy role models, as our own teachers have before us.
Students:
We, your students, recognize the excellence and commitment of those from whom we learn.
Faculty:
We promise to support your personal and professional growth, in health care settings, in the laboratory, in the
community, and through your own teaching.
Students:
We promise to pursue responsibly our calling to patient care, to service, and to research.
Faculty:
We promise to maintain an environment where scientific integrity and ethical standards sustain your trust in us.
Students:
We commit ourselves to the highest standards of academic honesty, scientific integrity and ethical practice as
students and in our professional lives.
All (students and faculty members):
nation. We accept the challenges and opportunities of those alumni whom we follow. We vow to be professional,
punctual and courteous. We vow to honour and respect life on earth, in all forms, crawling and reasoning, with
intellect or with handicap, to be ambassadors of healthy living and a prosperous future. We vow to take to heart and
mind that all men are created equal. We vow to uphold this pledge and our assistance to others who do the same.
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Due Dates for the 2022 Academic Year
DATE GENERAL DATES

21 January Last day for appeals (Semester 2 & Double modules – Regular and Supplementary/Special examinations
of November 2021)
14 January Last day for application of retention of continuous assessment (CA) mark and
Last day for application for exemption(s) (Senior Students)
17 January Last day for recommendation of retention of continuous assessment mark and Promotion Examinations by
Faculties
24 January Last day for approval of retention of continuous assessment mark and Promotion Examination by Examinations
Department
07 February Promotion Examination
11 February Last day for application for exemption(s) - senior students
12 February Last day for Late Registration for all Senior students (Late fee payable)
12 February Last day for approval of module(s) & qualification changes (Senior Students)
04 March Last day for application for exemption(s) – 1st year students
11 March Last day for approval of exemption(s) changes – all students
29 April Last day to submit Theses and Dissertations for examinations (for Spring Graduation 2022)
02 August Last day for Appeals (Semester 1 Modules - Regular and Supplementary/Special examinations of June 2022)
31 August Last day to submit outstanding documentation
07 October Last day to cancel enrolment
28 October Last day to submit Theses and Dissertations for examinations (For Autumn Graduation 2023)
DATE CANCELLATION DUE DATES
13 May Last day to cancel Semester 1 modules
07 October Last day to cancel Semester 2 modules
07 October Last day to cancel Double modules (module that extends normally over one academic year
DATE FINANCE DUE DATES
18 March Last day to cancel Semester 1 and Double modules with 100% credit
30 April Last day to cancel Semester 1 modules with 50% credit
24 June Last day to cancel Double modules with 50% credit
12 August Last day to cancel Semester 2 modules with 100% credit
31 August Last day to cancel Semester 2 modules with 50% credit
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ACADEMIC CALENDAR – UNAM CORE DATES 2022
FIRST SEMESTER:
10 January University Opens
10 January Start of Summer School (until 22 January)
24 January Academic staff resumes office duties
14 February Lectures commence for FIRST SEMESTER Senior Students
28 February Lectures commence for FIRST SEMESTER First Year Students
11 April First semester BREAK commences
19 April Lectures resume after first semester break
20 May Lectures end for FIRST SEMESTER
31 May Regular Examinations commence Senior Students
07 June Lectures end for FIRST SEMESTER First Year Students
13 June Regular Examinations commence First Year Students
21 June Regular Examinations end Senior Students
24 June Regular Examinations end First Year Students
30 June End of FIRST SEMESTER
04 July Start of Winter School (Until 08 July)
04 July 08 July Mid-year Recess
11 15 July Special/Supplementary/Winter Term Examinations start (until 15 July)
SECOND SEMESTER
25 July Lectures commence for SECOND SEMESTER
22 August Second semester BREAK commences
29 August Lectures resume after second semester break
21 October Lectures end for SECOND SEMESTER
27 October Regular Examinations commence
18 November Regular Examinations end
28 November Special/Supplementary Examinations start (until 2 Dec)
09 December End of SECOND SEMESTER
16 December End of academic year
09 January 2023 Start of Summer School (until 21 January)
12 January 2023 University opens (2023 academic year)
24 January 2023 Academic staff resumes office duties
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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES – 2022
10 Jan University Opens

10 Jan Summer school start (until 21 January)
11 Jan SoM Academic staff resumes office duty
12-14 Jan Written and Clinical supplementary exams 4th, 5th & 6th years MBChB
13-14 Jan Online registration (Senior Students MBChB) (Tentative as exact dates are not out)
17 Jan Lectures commence for FIRST SEMESTER: 2nd & 3rd year MBChB (until 13 May)
Block lectures start 4th year MBChB
Clinical rotation starts 5th year MBChB
21 Jan Summer school ends
18 Feb Block lectures end 4th year MBChB

Clinical rotation ends 5th year MBChB
21 Feb Registration commences 1st year MBChB (Tentative as exact dates are not out)
28 Feb Lectures commence 1st year MBChB (until 17 June) (NO 1st SEMESTER BREAK)
25 Mar Clinical rotation ends 4th year MBChB

28 Mar Clinical rotation starts 4th year MBChB
01 Apr Last day to submit draft examination papers for external moderation for 1st, 2nd and
3rd year MBChB
11 Apr 1st semester Break Starts (until 18 April) (NOT for 1st Year MBChB)
29 Apr Last day to submit final ready examination papers for MBChB (1st, 2nd and 3rd year
Students)
02 May Clinical rotation starts 5th year MBChB

09 May Announcement of provisional CA marks: MBChB (2nd and 3rd year)
Examination commences 4th year MBChB
13 May Announcement of final CA marks: MBChB (2nd and 3rd year)
Lectures end for 1st semester: 2nd & 3rd year MBChB (16 weeks)
Examination ends 4th year MBChB
16 May Break: 4th Year MBChB (until 27 May)
19 May Regular Examinations commence 2nd & 3rd year MBChB (until 3 June)
30 May Clinical rotation starts 4th year MBChB
03 Jun Regular Examinations end 2nd & 3rd MBChB

06 Jun COBES starts 3rd year MBChB (until 1 July)
13 Jun Announcement of provisional CA Marks 1st year MBChB
17 Jun Announcement of final CA Marks 1st year MBChB
17 Jun Lectures End for 1st SEMESTER 1st year MBChB
Exam Board Meeting (Senior students)
21 Jun Regular Examination Commence 1st year MBChB (until 1 Jul
01 Jul Regular Examinations end 1st year MBChB

COBES ends 3rd year MBChB
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04 Jul Clinical rotation starts 4th year MBChB
08 Jul Clinical rotation ends 5th year MBChB
11 Jul Lectures commence 1st, 2nd & 3rd year MBChB, (Until 4 November) for SECOND SEMESTER
12-15 Jul Special/Supplementary exams 2nd , 3rd & 4th year MBChB
20-22 Jul Special/Supplementary exams: 1st year MBChB
27 Jul Exam Board Meeting (09:00) (for all exams)
05 Aug Clinical rotation ends 4th year MBChB

Examinations: Last day to submit draft examination papers for external moderation for 4th
year MBChB
08 Aug Block lectures start 4th year MBChB
12 Aug Clinical rotation ends 5th year MBChB
15 Aug Clinical rotation starts 5th year MBChB (One week of this rotation will be used for
Emergency Medicine Course in September)
Clinical rotation starts 6th year MBChB (One week of this rotation will be used for
Emergency Medicine Course in September)
22 Aug Semester Break Starts (until 26 August)
02 Sept Examinations: Last day to submit draft examination papers for external moderation for
MBChB: 1st, 2nd, 3rd ,5th & 6th year
Examinations: Last day to submit final ready examination papers for 4th year MBChB
09 Sept Block lectures end 4th year MBChB
19 Sept Examination commences 4th year MBChB
23 Sept Clinical rotation ends 5th year MBChB
26 Sept Clinical rotation starts 5th year MBChB
07 Oct Examinations: Last day to submit final ready examination papers for MBChB: 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
5th, & 6th year
Examination ends 4th year MBChB
Last day to submit final ready examination papers for 5th & 6th year
10 Oct COBES starts 4th year MBChB
28 Oct Clinical rotation ends 5th year MBChB
31 Oct Announcement of provisional CA marks: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year MBChB
04 Nov Lectures end 1st, 2nd & 3rd year MBChB for SECOND SEMESTER
Announcement of final CA marks: 1st, 2nd & 3rd year MBChB
COBES ends 4th year MBChB
07 Nov Electives starts 4th year MBChB
Regular Examination commences 5th and 6th year MBChB
10 Nov Regular Examination commences 1st, 2nd & 3rd year MBChB &
25 Nov Regular Examination ends 1st, 2nd ,3rd 5th & 6th year MBChB
30 Nov Special / Supplementary exams 2nd and 3rd year MBChB starts for all written and practical
papers for Preclinical modules
01 Dec Moderation starts for MBChB

02 Dec Special / Supplementary exams 2nd and 3rd year MBChB ends for all written and practical
papers for Preclinical modules
Moderation ends for MBChB
05 Dec Exam board meeting
16 Dec Electives ends 4th year MBChB
2023
16-20 Jan Written and Clinical Special/Supplementary exams 4th, 5th & 6th year MBChB
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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS OF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN, BIOLOGICAL & TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

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Head of Department: Prof Q Wessels
Associate Professor: Prof Q Wessels, NDip (Biomedical Technology) Tshwane University of Technology; BSc
(Medical Sciences); BSc (Hons) Cell Biology; MSc (Anatomy) University of Pretoria; PhD
(Anatomy) University of Pretoria; MSc (Clinical Education) University of Edinburgh; FHEA.
Associate Professor: Prof J Misihairabgwi, PhD (Biochemistry) University of Zimbabwe; BSc (Hons) (Biochemistry);
University of Zimbabwe; PGDHE (Health Sciences) University of Namibia
Associate Professor: Prof Azu O O, BSc (Hons) Human Anatomy, College of Medical Sciences, University of
Calabar; MSc, Anatomy, College of Medicine, (University of Lagos), Idi-Ababa, Lagos,
Nigeria; PhD, Anatomy, College of Medicine, (University of Lagos), Idi-Ababa, Lagos,
Nigeria; Certificate of Program Completion, Clinical Trials (Harvard Medical School,
Boston), Cert. Plastique Technique (Germany)
Associate Professor: Prof MM Claassens, MBChB (Stellenbosch), BSc Hons (Northwest), MPhil (Stellenbosch),
PGDip (London), MSc (London), PhD (Amsterdam).
Senior Lecturer: Dr JA Sheehama, PhD Biology (Medical Microbiology and Medical Biochemistry) Kazan
State University; Masters in Biology (Microbiology and Molecular Biology) Kazan State
University
Senior Lecturer: Dr E Nepolo, PhD (Biochemistry) University of Namibia, MSc (Applied Molecular Biology);
University of Namibia; BSc (Molecular & Physiological Biology); University of Namibia
Lecturer: Dr RJ Kandando, HND (Manchester Polytechnic, UK), DipHE (Wolverhampton Polytechnic,

UK), Postgraduate Diploma (Clinical Laboratory Sciences) (University of Leeds, UK), M.Sc
(Clinical Biochemistry) (University of Leeds, UK), Ph.D (University of Surrey, UK); Registered
Specialist Clinical Biochemist (Medical and Dental Council of Namibia)
Lecturer: CD Izaaks, ND (Medical Technology) Cape Technikon, South Africa; B Tech (Biomedical
Technology), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa; MTech [cum laude]
(Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa; PGDHE (UNAM); Registered
Medical Technologist (Allied Health Professions Council of Namibia)
Lecturer: Ms H Zaire, MSc Epidemiology Wageningen University,USA (in progress); BSc. Animal
Science UNAM
Lecturer: Dr A Du Plessis, MBChB University of Stellenbosch; DCH College of Medicine, South Africa,
PgDip (Health Professionals Education) UCT
Lecturer: Dr K van Niekerk MBChB University of Namibia; Msc Clin. Ed University of Edinburgh (in
Progress)
Lecturer: Mrs A M N Shatri BSc (Hons) Microbiology & Biochemistry; Master of Science (Applied
Human Biology), University of Namibia.
Lecturer: Mr Haindongo EHH, BSc Microbiology & Biochemistry; Master of Science (Biology),
University of Namibia
Lecturer Mr Nghoshi S, MSc in Applied Field Epidemiology (UNAM)
Lecturer: Ms J Nelongo, MSc (Biology) & BSc (Molecular & Physiological Biology and Chemistry)
University of Namibia; BTech & ND (Biomedical Technology) Cape Peninsula University of
Technology; PGDHE (Health Sciences) University of Namibia.
Lecturer: Dr Z Mkandla, PhD (Human Physiology) University of KwaZulu-Natal, MSc (Biomedical

Technology) Cape Peninsula University of Technology, BTech (Biomedical Technology)
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, ND (Biomedical Technology) Cape Peninsula
University of Technology
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Lecturer: Ms LNN Shipingana, BSc (Hons) Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of Namibia;
MSc Molecular Biology, JSS University, India
Lecturer: Mr DH Haiyambo, BSc (Hons) Microbiology & Biochemistry; MSc Biology (UNAM)
Senior Technologist: Ms A Poolman BSc Human Life Science; BScHons (Cum Laude) Human Anatomy; MSc
Human Anatomy.
Technician: Ms K Niiteta, BSc (Hons) Biochemistry & Chemistry, University of Namibia.
Technologist: Mr FI Tshavuka, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, Namibia University of Science and
Technology
Technician: Mrs D Bouman, BSc Zoology & Physiology, University of South Africa
Technician: Mr JJ van der Merwe, BMedSci University of the Free State, BMedSci (Hons), University of
the Free State, HED University of South Africa
Assistant Technician: Mr J Lakanemo
Technologist Lusia Mhuulu, BSc (Biochemistry and Chemistry) University of Namibia, MSc (Biochemistry
and Molecular Genetics) University of Namibia
Technician Vacant
Technologist: Ms. TE Nashihanga, BSc (Hons) Microbiology & Biochemistry, University of Namibia
Staff Development: Ms J Namene. BSc (Hons) Microbiology & Biochemistry, University of Namibia; MSc
(Forensics), JSS University, India.
Staff Development: Ms TPT Keendjele, BSc (Physiology) University of Pretoria, BHSc with Honours (Physiology)
University of the Witwatersrand
Staff Development: Ms HH Eelu, BSc (Human Genetics) University of Pretoria, BSc Hons (Molecular and Cell
Biology) University of Cape Town, PgDip (Health Professionals Education) UCT, MSc
(Control of Infectious Diseases) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

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Namibia
Head of Department: Dr. F Yimer
Lecturer: Dr F T Yimer, MD (Gondar University), Ethiopia; Internal Medicine Physician and Neurologist
(Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences) in collaboration with Mayo Clinic,
Rochester.
Lecturer & skills lab coordinator:

S/r E Hamukwaya MNSc (UNAM), PM (UCT), PG Dip (critical care) (UNAM), 14DCNM
(UNAM)
Lecturer: Dr. F. Christians, MBChB (UCT), M Fam. Med (UCT), MPH (Umea University, Sweden,
FCFP(CMSA), Dip HIV Management (CMSA)
Senior Lecturer: Dr. Z Malan MBChB (University of Pretoria), MMed Family Medicine (University of Pretoria),
PhD Family Medicine (Stellenbosch University)
Lecturer: Dr. J Kuehne MBChB (University of Cape Town), M. Phil Applied Ethics (Stellenbosch
University), Dip HIV Management (Colleges of Medicine South Africa), Master in Family
Medicine (University of Cape Town), Cert. In Health Science Education (SAFRI)
Lecturer: Dr H M Ndjaba. MMED Psych (University of Nairobi Kenya); MD of Medicine (Hubert Kairuki
Memorial University), Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; Diploma in Clinical Medicine (Tanga
Medical Training School), Tanga Tanzania.
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Lecturer & COBES coordinator:
Ms. Ndiitodino Kakehongo , MSc, (Applied Field Epidemiology) (UNAM), BNSc,
(Clinical)(Hons) (Community Health, General Nursing Science & Midwifery Science)
(UNAM).
Senior Lecturer: Dr L N Lukolo, PhD Nursing Science (Community Health) UNAM; Masters in Nursing Science
(MCUR)(Community Health) University of Stellenbosch SA; Honors Degree in Nursing
Educatio (BCUR):
Nursing Education and Management: University of Namibia, Diploma in comprehensive
Nursing Science: General nursing science, Psychiatric, Community Health and midwifery)
University of Namibia, Diploma in Health System Management (Galilee International
Management Institute, (Israel); Certificate in Nursing (Enrolled Nurse): Onandjokwe
Lutheran hospital Nursing School.
DEPARTMENT OF MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

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Namibia
Head of Department: Dr BJ Nggada
Lecturer: Dr BJ Nggada, Specialist obstetrician/gynaecologist: MBBS(Unimaid), Fellow West African

College of Surgeons (FWACS (Nigeria)), MIRD (UniAbuja)
Senior Lecturer: Dr F Sinyinza, BSc (Human Biology), University of Zambia, School of Medicine; MBCHB,
University of Zambia, School of Medicine; Master of Medicine (Paediatrics & Child Health,
University of Zambia, School of Medicine
Lecturer: Dr LC Kimera, Specialized obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB Mbarara University of

Science and Technology, Uganda; MMed (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) Makerere
University, Uganda.
Lecturer: Dr A T Msusa. Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBBS University of Malawi; Fellow of

the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of South Africa (FCOG(SA))
Lecturer: Dr J Katumba, Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB Makerere University, MMed

Obstetrics (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Makerere University, Fellow of Gynaecologic
Oncology, East African Centre of Excellence for Oncology (EACO)
Lecturer: Dr AF Muyotcha Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB (UZ) MMed (Obstetrics

and Gynaecology) (UZ)
Lecturer:
DR R Mano, Specialist Paediatrician, MBChB (UZ), MMED Paeds UZ), Dip HIV Man (SA),
AHMP (FPD/Yale)
DEPARTMENT OF SURGICAL SCIENCES

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Namibia
Head of Department: Dr Youssef Saad. MB. B Ch. (Assuit University, Egypt); Masters in General Surgery
(M Sc., Assuit University, Egypt; MRCS (Membership of Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh, U.K.), Diploma of Laparoscopic Surgery (IRCARD, France).
Associate Professor Rukewe A. MBBS (University of Ilorin, Nigeria); DA (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria);
MSc (University of Ibadan, Ibadan,Nigeria); FMCA (National Postgraduate Medical
College of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria)
Senior Lecturer Dr C B Mbangtang (General Surgery). MBBS (University of Ibadan, Nigeria); DA

(Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesia, University of Ibadan, Nigeria); MMed (Surg),
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University of Zimbabwe; FRCS (Edin) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland;
FCS (ECSA) College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa; FICS, International
College of Surgeons.
Senior Lecturer Dr E Fynn. MBChB (Ghana) DCH(SA), M. Med (Radiodiagnostics) FCRad(SA).

Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Wales)
Senior Lecturer Dr Kingsley U T. MBBS (Univeristy of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria); DA (University of Benin, Benin-
City, Nigeria); FMCA (National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria);
FWACS (West African College of Surgeons (Anaesthesia), Ibadan, Nigeria)
Senior Lecturer Dr. Onochie Nweze, MBBCh., FWACS (Specialist Anaesthesiologist).
Lecturer: Dr Dzvanga M T, Bachelor Degree in Surgery and Medicine, Postgraduate Diploma in

Anaesthesia; University of Zimbabwe
Lecturer Dr Ndhlovu Munyaradzi, Mb. B Ch., M Med General surgery, University of Zimbabwe.
Lecturer: Mr. Nikanor Boas Johannes, S Sc. (UNAM), P Phill. Medical Physics (University of Ghana).
MASTER OF MEDICINE
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Namibia
Coordinator Prof Rekewe A
Senior Lecturer Associate Professor Rukewe A. MBBS (University of Ilorin, Nigeria); DA (University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria); MSc (University of Ibadan, Ibadan,Nigeria); FMCA (National
Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria)
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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
The regulations should be read in conjunction with the General Information and Regulations prospectus
PROGRAMMES
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 15BMCH
PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION
The purpose of the UNAM MBChB Degree Program is to produce health professionals whose knowledge, professional
skills, and practice in medicine are in tune with the needs of society (practice patterns, and scientific advancements).
The training shall accommodate the learning environment conducive to the pursuit of professional competence by
health workers, while providing quality services to the community and undertaking relevant translational research for
enhancement of health. The School will continually strive for the establishment of training programs in a wide spectrum
of health disciplines and lending support to the human resource development initiatives of the country, including post-
graduate education of physicians and scientists. The School is mandated to prepare graduates for the medical
degree of the University of Namibia.
EXIT PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
Graduates of the MBChB degree will have satisfied the requirements to enter into a medical Internship immediately
after graduation. Upon completion of Medical Internship they will be registrable as a medical practitioner.
The registered medical practitioner will be able to provide evidence based general medical care at a district hospital
or similar setting and also manage the district health system. The graduate will be competent and be able to manage
a private practice. In addition, graduate should be able seek further training in research or specialisation. In their
practice, the graduates will be expected to remain competent throughout their professional life and be able to initiate
and participate in change.
Upon successful completion of the program, the graduate will be able to inter alia:
Patient Care Competences
1. Independently obtain clinical information from a patient in a logical and organized manner and utilize
such information to formulate a clinical diagnosis and develop a prioritized list of differential diagnosis.
2. Apply basic, clinical and social science knowledge to identify key clinical and social problems,
formulate and initiate treatment of common medical and surgical conditions;
3. Request appropriate diagnostic investigations, interpret findings and utilize the findings to make
evidence based clinical decisions;
4. Evaluate the validity of laboratory/diagnostic tests;
5. Prescribe appropriate medications and other instructions safely
6. Involve patients and their caregivers in all aspects of their care and at all times preserve and promote
patient dignity and wellbeing.
7. Refer or make effective medical consultation including safe hand-over or takeover of patients;
Competences in emergency care
8. Identify promptly a patient with an acute medical and /or surgical problem;
9. Initiate treatment of medical and surgical emergencies and carry out basic life support;
10. Perform minor diagnostic and surgical procedures;

Competences for communication
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11. Record accurately medical information and present clinical cases accurately including concise
summaries;
12. Explain tests and other procedures to patients or caregivers and obtain consent;
13. Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and relations;
14. Exhibit
communication skills and ethical behaviour with patients and caregivers from diverse
backgrounds and population groups.
Competences for Inter-professional activities
15. Identify the role of other healthcare professionals and function as an effective member of a multi-
disciplinary healthcare team;
Competences for research and evidence based public health practice
16. Apply the technical procedures, goals, and results of medical research including laboratory and
population or community-based research and integrate the finings into clinical /healthcare delivery
decision making;
17. Apply the knowledge on biological and non-biological determinants of illnesses and health and
determine the economic, social cultural and psychological factors that contribute to development
/continuation of diseases and formulate, sustainable disease prevention, health promotion and health
maintenance strategies for a community or population group;
Competences for leadership and health systems management
18. Assess relevancy, efficacy, quality, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of healthcare service delivery
and formulate a feasible plan;
19. Apply the technical procedures, concepts and principles of management and medical jurisprudence
to administer a health facility, unit or district;
Competences of Self-directed learning activities and professionalism
20. Identify own limitations, seek, retrieve and utilize scientific information from a variety of resources and
use this to improve patient care and personal competences;
21. Practice medicine with sound ethical behaviour considering local social and cultural considerations
and respect for human dignity and social justice
22. Exhibit sensitivity to the important role cultural backgrounds influence on health and wellbeing.
These core competences are designed to produce a medical graduate who is not only a physician, but is also a
scientist and scholar exhibiting the qualities of the Seven Star Doctor, namely a Care Provider, Decision-maker,
Communicator, Community Leader, Manager, Researcher and Life-long Learner.
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REGULATIONS
Criteria for Admission
Admission to the School of Medicine is based on the academic standing, essay writing skills, and a
successful interview. All provisional selections are made by the Committee on Admissions. To be considered for
admission into MBChB programme, a candidate:
1. Must hold a valid NSSC (Namibian Senior Secondary Certificate) or any other equivalent qualification with
at least 35 points in five subjects (including English, Mathematics. Physical Sciences/Physics/Chemistry and
Biology/Life Sciences) on the UNAM scale with a grade 2 or better on higher level OR a grade B or better on
ordinary level for Mathematics and Physical Sciences/Physics/Chemistry, and a grade B or better on ordinary
level for Biology/Life Sciences and English. Candidates with a C in English, meeting all the other subject
requirements, may be considered provided that they have at least 37 points in five subjects.
OR
2. Must hold a valid NSSC (Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate) on Advanced Subsidiary (AS), or any other
equivalent qualification with at least 35 points in five subjects (must include Mathematics, Biology,
Chemistry and Physics) with English at either O-Level (B) or AS level (d) on the UNAM scale with a grade (b)
or better on AS level for Mathematics, grade (c) or better on AS for Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
Candidates with a C in English on O-Level and (e) on AS level, meeting all the other subject requirements,
may be considered provided that they have at least 37 points in five subjects.
3. Must have successfully completed the entire first year BSc curriculum with at least 60% in each of the
Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics modules;
OR
4. Must have successfully completed a relevant degree program such as Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry or other
health related degree programmes.
OR
5. Mature Entry: Candidates aspiring for admission to the MBChB programme through the Mature Age Entry
Scheme must satisfy the following conditions:
5.1. They should be at least 25 years old on the first day of the academic year in which admission is
sought
5.2. They should have successfully completed senior secondary education
5.3. They should have proof of at least five years related work experience
5.4. They should pass each of the papers in the prescribed Mature Age Entry Test with at least 60% in
the Faculty specific papers, and 50% in the other papers.
5.5. Candidates, who, in the opinion of the Faculty, merit further consideration, may be called for an
oral interview before the final selection is made.
Essay Writing
An applicant shall be required to write an essay on a topic or topics so determined by the Committee on Admissions.
The essay exercise is designed to elicit communication skills and forms the basis of the interview. Topics are selected
in order to provide candidates an opportunity to display understanding of health and medical practice in the
Namibian context.
Letters of Recommendation
An applicant seeking admission to the School of Medicine shall submit a letter of recommendation from a previous
supervisor or appropriate mentor. These letters should reflect the ability, understanding, and desire to
become a successful health care provider.
Interviews
Eligible applicants shall be invited for personal interview. Video conferencing may be considered for students with
special circumstances. Interviews are conducted in order to determine the ability to express themselves
and give them opportunity to share formative experiences relevant to health care. Candidates will have opportunity
to provide personal information, general awareness, aspirations, and values. Special care is taken to ensure equality
among candidates.
Selection
The overall physical and mental status will be assessed without conducting a formal medical examination.
The final recommendation for admission is based on a weighted score composed of 80% academic achievement,
10% interview, 10% essay.
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UNAM EVALUATION SCALE:
NSSC CAMBRIDGE SENIOR CERTIFICATE GCE IB
POINTS AS H O HIGCSE IGCSE NSC HG SG AS A-level O-level HG SG
10 A 7
9 a 1 1 7 A a B 6
8 b 2 A* 2 A* 6 B b C 5 7
7 c 3 A 3 A 5 C A c D A 4 6
6 d 4 B 4 B 4 D B d E B 5
5 e C C 3 E C e C 4
4 D D 2 F D N/O/Subsi D 3
diary
3 E E E E 2
2 F F F F
1 G G G
DURATION OF STUDY
The minimum period for completing the programme 6 years and the maximum is 8 years.
EXEMPTIONS
UNAM will give exemptions for equivalent modules taken at other tertiary institutions but the exemptions shall not
exceed 50% of the modules in the MBChB degree program. An application for exemption from (a) module (s) must
be accompanied by documentary proof issued by the examining body concerned that the student has passed the
relevant module (not older than 5 years).
EXAMINATION REGULATIONS
Assessment Criteria
A student will be eligible to write the examination if they have obtained a Continuous Assessment Mark of at least 50%.
The regular UNAM requirement (40%) will apply to the UNAM core modules.
Unless otherwise indicated in the module descriptor, the Continuous Assessment Mark (CA mark) will count 40%
towards the final mark while the examination mark will contribute 60%.
A student will pass a module when he/she has obtained a final mark of at least 50%. In clinical modules, a subminimum
of 50% will apply for all written and practical/clinical examinations.
A student may qualify for a supplementary examination in a clinical module if he/she obtained a final mark of 45%-
49%, subject to a subminimum of 45% in each of the papers (written, clinical/practical).
A student who qualifies for a supplementary examination in a clinical module, should undergo a remedial clinical
training period of four weeks per module before the supplementary examination.
For detailed examination and promotion rules see the General Information and Regulations Prospectus.
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ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT RULES
1. MBChB I
FIRST YEAR TO SECOND YEAR OF MEDICINE
1.2.1 A student must have passed at least 128 credits the prescribed First Year credits to be
promoted to Second Year. If any of the failed modules is a pre-requisite for a Second-Year
module, the student cannot register for the affected Second Year module until the pre-
requisite is passed.
1.2.2 A student who has passed at least 96 credits (but less than 128 credits) will not be promoted to
Second Year, but will be allowed to take no more than 32 credits from Year 2 modules: 16
credits (equivalent to one full module) in Semester 1, and 16 credits (equivalent to one full
module) in Semester 2, in addition to the failed Year 1 modules, provided that the required
pre-requisites are passed.
1.2.2. Students are responsible for selecting their modules within the framework of the UNAM
timetable. Students will not be allowed to register for more than one module in the same
timeslot.
2. MBChB II
SECOND YEAR TO THIRD YEAR OF MEDICINE
2.2.1 A student must have passed ALL the prescribed First Year modules (160 credits). In addition,
the student must have passed at least 128 credits from the prescribed Second Year modules.
If any of the failed modules is a pre-requisite for a Third-Year module, the student cannot
register for the affected Third Year module until the pre-requisite is passed.
2.2.2 A student who does not qualify for promotion to Year 3 based on 2.2.1 above, but has passed
at least 256 credits from both first- and second-year modules, will be allowed to take no more
than 32 credits from Year 3 modules: 16 credits (equivalent to one full module) in Semester 1,
and 16 credits (equivalent to one full module) in Semester 2, in addition to the failed modules.
Such students will not be allowed to register for any clinical module of Year 3.
2.2.3 A student who fails three or more modules, will not progress to Year 3, but can take limited
modules from Year 3. The eligible student should have obtained at least 224 credits (all first-
year modules plus 7 out of 11 second year modules) and can take not more than 36 credits
(two full modules) from Year 3: 16 credits (one full module) in Semester 1, maximum of 20
credits (one full module) in Semester 2, provided that the required pre-requisites are passed.
2.2.4 Students are responsible for selecting their modules within the framework of the UNAM
timeslot.
3. MBChB III
THIRD YEAR TO FOURTH YEAR OF MEDICINE
3.2.1 A student must have passed ALL the prescribed First Year and Second Year modules (320
credits in total). In addition, the student must have passed at least 148 credits of the prescribed
Third Year credits. If any of the failed modules is a pre-requisite for a Fourth-Year module, the
student cannot register for the affected Fourth Year module until the pre-requisite is passed.
3.2.2 A student who passed all first- and second-year modules, and at least 128 (but less than 148)
credits from Third Year, will not progress to Year 4, but will be allowed to take any 4 of the 8
credit modules of Year Four, provided that the required pre-requisites are passed. Alternatively,
such students will be allowed to register for any 2 of the 8 credit modules of Year four, as well
as any one clinical from Semester 2 of Year 4, excluding Surgery II (SUR3780), provided that the
required pre-requisites are passed.
timeslot.
4. MBChB IV
FOURTH YEAR TO FIFTH YEAR OF MEDICINE
4.2.1 To be promoted to Year 5, a student must have passed ALL the prescribed First Year, Second
Year and Third Year modules, as well as at least 132 credits of the prescribed Fourth Year
modules. If any of the failed modules is a pre-requisite for a Fifth-Year module, the student
cannot register for the affected Fifth Year module until the pre-requisite is passed.
4.2.2 Students who are not promoted to Year 5, but passed all first, second- and third-year modules,
may continue with no more than 80 credits of Year 5 (in the North) provided that the logistical
arrangements for such rotations and the repeat of the failed modules are agreed to in writing
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and signed off by School of Medicine Management before the start of the academic year.
Also note all pre-requisites are met.
timeslot.
5. MBChB V
FIFTH YEAR TO SIXTH YEAR OF MEDICINE
5.2.1 In order to be promoted to Year 6, a student must have passed ALL the prescribed First Year,
Second Year, Third Year and Fourth Year modules as well as 120 credits from Year 5. If any of
the failed modules is a pre-requisite for a Sixth-Year module, the student cannot register for the
affected Sixth Year module until the pre-requisite is passed.
5.2.2 Students who are not promoted to Year 6, but passed all first, second, third- and fourth-year
modules, may continue with no more than 80 clinical credits of Year 6 (in Windhoek) in addition
to the Research Project (RPD3810) where applicable, provided that the logistical
arrangements for such rotations and the repeat of the failed modules are agreed to in writing
and signed off by School of Medicine Management before the start of the academic year.
Also note all pre-requisites are met.
timeslot.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR RE-ADMISSION INTO THE PROGRAMME
A student will not be re-admitted into the programme if she/he has not earned:
1. At least 64 credits by the end of the first year of registration
2. At least 160 credits by the end of the second year of registration
3. At least 272 credits by the end of the third year of registration
4. At least 384 credits by the end of the fourth year of registration
5. At least 528 credits by the end of the fifth year of registration
6. At least 696 credits by the end of the sixth year of registration
7. At least 864 credits by the end of the seventh year of registration

In addition to the above regulations, a student will only be allowed to repeat a particular module twice failure to
clear any module after the third registration of the particular module, will result in termination of studies.
6.1 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CREDITS PER YEAR
Year 1: 160 credits

Years 2-4: A student will be allowed to register for a maximum of 32 credits more than the total credits of the
particular curriculum year.
Years 5-6: A student will be allowed to register for a maximum of 60 credits more than the total credits of the
particular curriculum year.
REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFICATION AWARD

A student can graduate with the MBChB degree upon successful completion of the prescribed 1024 credits in the
curriculum. Following graduation, graduates will be required to successfully proceed into a two-year medical
internship in Namibia or as per requirement of the relevant country.
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Summary Table
The curriculum of the MBChB is made up of the following components:
YEAR 1 semester 1
Module Title Module Code NQF Credits Hours Prerequisites

/Week
Computer Literacy CLC3409 5 8 2
Contemporary Social Issues CSI3580 5 4 1
Embryology and ATM3511 5 16 3+4P

Introduction to Anatomy
English for Academic LEA3419 5 16 4 LCE3419

Purposes
Medical Physics PLG3501 5 8 2
Organic Chemistry BCM3501 5 8 2+2P
Systems Physiology I PLG3511 5 16 3+4P
Semester Credits 76
YEAR 1 semester 2
Contemporary Social Issues CSI3580 5 4 4
General Biochemistry I BCM3512 5 16 3+4P
Sociology of Health and CMM3512 5 16 3+4P

Disease
Statistics for Health Sciences RID3512 5 16 4
Systemic Anatomy I ATM3512 5 16 3+4P
Systems Physiology II PLG3512 5 16 3+4P
Semester Credits 84
TOTAL CREDITS 160
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YEAR 2 semester 1
COBES I CMM3600 6 8 4h of
integrated
learning
and
household
attachment
Developmental Psychology PCT3600 6 8 2
Family Medicine I FMM3601 6 8 2+2P
General Biochemistry II BCM3611 6 16 3+4P BCM3512
Pathophysiology PLG3611 6 16 3+4P PLG3511 and PLG3512
Professional Ethics RID3601 6 8 2
Systemic Anatomy II ATM3611 6 16 3+4P ATM3512
Semester Credits 80
YEAR 2 semester 2
Anatomical Pathology PTG3612 6 16 3+4P
COBES 1 CMM3600 6 8 4h of
integrated
learning
and
household
attachment
Developmental Psychology PCT3600 6 8 2
Internal Medicine I ITM3612 6 16 3+4P
Medical Microbiology I MCB3612 6 16 3+4P
Pharmacology I PMG3612 6 16 4
Semester Credits 80
TOTAL CREDITS 160
YEAR 3 semester 1
Module Title Module Code NQF Credits Hours Prerequisites/ (Co-

requisites)
Epidemiology RID3711 7 16 3+1P
Family Medicine II FMM3701 7 8 FMM3601
Haematology PTG3711 7 8 2+2P PLG3611
Medical Microbiology II MCB3711 7 16 3+4P MCB3612
Pharmacology II PMG3711 7 16 4 PMG3612
Surgery I SUR3710 7 16 3+4P ATM3611 and PLG3611
Semester Credits 80
YEAR 3 semester 2
Chemical Pathology PTG3702 7 8 2+2P BCM3611 and PLG3611
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Clinical Microbiology MCB3702 7 8 2+2P MCB3612 and
(MCB3711)
Obstetrics & Gynaecology OBG3712 7 20 40 hours for ATM3611 and PLG3611

I 5 weeks
Paediatrics I PDC3712 7 20 40 hours for

5 weeks
Pharmacology III PMG3712 7 16 4 PMG3612
Surgery I SUR3710 7 20 40 hours for BCM3611, ATM3611 and

5 weeks PLG3611
Semester Credits 92
Year 3 Field work
Research Methods and RID3780 7 8 1+2P RID 3512

Proposal Writing
COBES II CMM3719 16 4 weeks of CMM3512

integrated
learning
TOTAL CREDITS 196
YEAR 4 semester 1
Module Title Module Code NQF Credits Hours Prerequisites/ (Co-

requisites)
Anaesthesiology I ANA3701 7 8 2 ATM3611, PMG3711 and

PMG3712
Health Systems CMM3701 7 8 2

Management
Medical Imaging and PLG3701 7 8 2

Diagnostics
Family Medicine III FMM3711 7 8 1+2P FMM3601 and FMM3702
Nutrition and Dietetics CMM3711 7 8 1+2P
Psychiatry I PCT3711 7 8 2 ITM3612 and PCD3712
Both semester 1 and 2
Internal Medicine II ITM3789 7 20 40 hours ITM3612

for 5 weeks
Obstetrics & Gynaecology OBG3789 7 20 40 hours for OBG3712

II 5 weeks
Paediatrics II PDC3789 7 20 40 hours for PDC3712

5 weeks
Surgery II SUR3780 7 20 40 hours for SUR3710

5 weeks
128
Year 4 Field work
COBES III – Management CMM3739 7 16 4 weeks of FMM3601 and CMM3701

integrated
learning
TOTAL CREDITS 144
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YEAR 5 Full year modules
Anaesthesiology II ANA3880 8 8 1 hour per ANA3701

week
Internal Medicine III ITM3880 8 40 40 hours for ITM3789

10 weeks
Obstetrics and OBG3880 8 40 40 hours for OBG3789

Gynaecology III 10 weeks
Paediatrics III PDC3880 8 20 40 hours for PDC3789

5 weeks
Psychiatry II PCT3880 8 20 40 hours for PCT3711

5 weeks
Surgery III SUR3880 8 40 40 hours for SUR3780

10 weeks
Research Project RPD3810 8 32 4 hours per

week
Electives MDC3789 7 16 6 weeks
TOTAL CREDITS 216
YEAR 6 Full year modules
Internal Medicine IV ITM3890 8 40 40 hours for ITM3880

10 weeks
Obstetrics and OBG3890 8 40 40 hours for OBG3880

Gynaecology IV 10 weeks
Paediatrics IV PDC3890 8 20 40 hours for PDC3880

5 weeks
Psychiatry III PCT3890 8 20 40 hours for PCT3880

5 weeks
Surgery IV SUR3890 8 40 40 hours for SUR3880

10 weeks
TOTAL CREDITS 160
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Module Descriptors
UNAM Core Modules
Module Title: English for Academic Purposes
Code: ULEA3519
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 4 hours per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: LCE3419
Compulsory/Electives: Compulsory
Semester offered: 1st year semester 1
Course Description:
This module develops a student's understanding and competencies regarding academic conventions such as
academic reading, writing, listening and oral presentation skills for academic purposes. Students are required to
produce a referenced and researched essay written in formal academic style within the context of their university
studies. Students are also required to do oral presentations based on their essays. The reading component of the
course deals with academic level texts. This involves students in a detailed critical analysis of such texts. The main aim
is therefore, to develop academic literacy in English.
Assessment Strategies
Continuous Assessment: 60 %
Examination: 40 % (1 x 3 hours paper).
Module Title: Contemporary Social Issues
Code: CSI3580
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 80
Contact Hours: 1 hour per week for 2 semesters (offered Online)
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: none
Semester offered: 1st year semesters 1 & 2
Assessment strategies: This is a 100% continuous assessment module with a variety of assessments which evaluate and
test the students individual learning and mastering of the course content (subject knowledge) through quizzes, tests,
Moodle assignments, journal entries, reflections as well as service and experiential learning projects.
Course Content: The module, Contemporary Social Issues (CSI3580), is designed to encourage behavioural change
among UNAM students and inculcate the primacy of moral reasoning in their social relations and their academic lives.
In providing students with critical and analytical thinking the module enables students to grow and develop into well
rounded citizens, capable of solving contemporary social challenges experienced in their communities and societies.
The teaching of the module takes three dimensions: the intellectual, the professional and the personal dimensions.
The intellectual dimension is fostered through engaging students with subject knowledge, independent learning and
module assessment. The professional dimension, on the other hand, is fostered through exposing students to real life
situations of case studies and practical exercises that draws attention to social issues that attract ongoing political,
public and media attention and/or debate. Finally, the professional dimension is fostered through group work and
online discussions.
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Module Title: Computer Literacy
Code: CLC3409
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 80
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: none
Module Content:
Understanding computer systems and technology: The problem-solving approach. Structure and components of a
modern computer - processor, memory, hard drives, disk drives, interfaces. The Windows environment.
Principles of information processing: word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases. nature and use of
software. Practical exercises: Use of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Communication using email. Overview of Internet.
Assessment: Continuous 100%:
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Module Title: Medical Physics
Code: PLG3501
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
The aim of this module is for students to learn core concepts of physics and relating these to their application in
medical practice. Students will learn about motion, elasticity, fluids, gases, waves, temperature, electricity, magnetism
and electromagnetism, lights, solids, and radioactivity all of which have direct application in studying some disease
processes such as cardio-vascular disease with respect fluid mechanics or diagnostics such as the use of ultrasound
and X-ray which are based on radiation and high frequency resonance; or treatment for example in radiation in
cancer therapy or use of laser beams. Students will have opportunity to observe some of the equipment in use
Module content
Topics: Units (standards, SI system, converting units, order of magnitude); Motion (displacement, velocity, acceleration,
falling objects); Vectors (representation, adding, subtracting scalar product, vector product); Force 1st on
3rd laws, mass, weight); Equilibrium (statics, equilibrium, elasticity); Fluids (density, specific gravity, pressure,
principle, measurement, flow, Principle, viscosity, surface tension, pumps); Waves (wave motion, types of
waves, energy, amplitude and frequency, reflection and interference, resource, refraction and diffraction); gas laws;
Temperature (atomic theory, temperature and thermometers, thermal expansion, thermal stress, diffusion); Electricity
(change, field, potential, currents, basic circuits; Magnetism (magnetic fields, electric currents, force, electric charge,
ampere and out coulomb, Law, torque); Electromagnetism (electromagnetic induction, transformers,
transmission of power, production of electromagnetic waves, light and electromagnetic spectrum); Light (wave versus
particles, diffraction, refraction, visible spectrum and dispersion); Molecules and Solids (bounding in molecules, weak
bounds); Radioactivity (structure and properties of nucleus, binding energy and nuclear forces, radioactivity, alpha,
beta, and gamma decay, half-life and rate of decay, radioactive dating).
Continuous assessment mark: 40% -
Examination mark: 60%
Module Title: Embryology and Introduction to Anatomy
Code: ATM3511
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3+4P hours per week for 16 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
This module aims to provide a background to master certain principles of cell biology, histology, human embryology
and anatomy. The module establishes the foundation for systemic Anatomy.
Module Content
The module provides building blocks to master the following topics i) place in the organismic kingdom. iI) basic
embryological concepts. iii) histological structure and function of the primary tissues in the body. iv) terminology and
definitions in anatomy. The module includes an introduction to microscopy and methods in microscopy. Cardio-
vascular Systemic Anatomy will be covered at the end of the semester with initiation to dissection hall and cadaver
care.
The module consists of four entities:
(1) Introduction to anatomy including topics: Organismic kingdom, evolution, humans and their environment, history
of anatomy, anatomical concept and terms. Introduction to all the major body systems (neurological, cardiovascular,
respiratory, digestive and urogenital).
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2) Cell biology, consisting of structure and function of cells and cell organelles and biological communication.
(3) Embryology, consisting of basic anatomy and physiology of reproduction, fertilization, implantation, the placenta,
and development of the embryo till trilaminar stage.
(4) Introduction to human histology including histology of the basic tissues, namely epithelial tissue, connective tissues,
muscle tissue and nervous tissue, and introduction to haematology and immunology.
Examination mark: One 3-hour examination paper.
Final mark: 40% of exam mark and 60% of Continuous assessment mark.
Module Title: Systemic Anatomy I
Code: ATM3512
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
This module aims to provide students with sound systemic anatomical and histological knowledge of the
cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and urogenital system to the extent that they can relate from and function and
use this in practice in their further studies in medicine and future work.
Module Content
Regional anatomy and topographical anatomy, organ development and histology of respiratory, gastro-intestinal
and urogenital systems with dissections and microscopy practical sessions of each system. Examples of the
applications of the anatomical knowledge in clinical cases and clinical examination techniques mastered in skills
laboratory.
(All class tests in this block have a practical component contributing 40% of the class mark)
Examination mark: One 2-hour theory examination paper (60%)
One practical examination paper (40%)
Final mark: 40% of exam mark and 60% of Class mark.
Module Title: Systemic Anatomy II
Code: ATM3613
NQF level: 6
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: Systemic Anatomy I
Semester offered: 2nd year semester 1
Module Aims
This module aims to provide students with sound systemic anatomical knowledge of the musculo-skeletal and
neurological system to the extent that they can relate form and function and use this in practice in their further studies
in medicine and future work.
Module Content
Regional anatomy and topographical anatomy, development and histology of musculoskeletal and neurological
systems including sensory organs. Dissection and microscopy practical sessions of each system. Examples of the
applications of the anatomical knowledge in clinical cases.
Clinical examination of system in skills laboratory.
(All class tests in this block have a practical component that contributes 40% of the mark)
Examination mark: One 2-hour theory examination paper (60%)
One practical examination paper (40%)
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Final mark: 40% of exam mark and 60% of Class mark.
Module Title: Organic Chemistry
Code BCM5311
NQF level 5
Notional hours: 80
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours + 2 P per week for 16 weeks
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: None
Module Aims
This module introduces students commencing studies in health sciences to the concepts of general, physical and
organic chemistry which are foundational for the understanding of biochemical and physiological processes.
Module content
The materials covered in this module are: Periodic table and electronegativity scale, acid base properties of
solutions, thermodynamics, nomenclature of hydrocarbons, basic reactions of organic compounds, introductory
spectroscopy, preparation of solution, principles of laboratory safety and laboratory procedures.
The continuous assessment (CA): 40% (minimum of 3 tests and 2 assignments)
Examination: 60% Examination (1 x 3 hours written paper + 1½ h practical examination)
Module Title: General Biochemistry I
Code: BCM3512
NQF Level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours + 4 P hours per week for 16 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims:
This module is the first of two with a focus on cellular organization, biomolecules and cellular function, cell
communication and immune recognition, introductory clinical/medical genetics and bioinformatics. The module will
correlate changes in cell division, structure, function, biomolecules and genomes associated with homeostasis or
disease state.
Module Content
The module will cover the following topics: Principles of Medical Biochemistry; cell structure and function; cell cycle;
basic structure, biochemical properties and function of biomolecules in health and disease; glycoconjugates;
complex lipids; eicosanoids and their role in inflammation; importance of lipoproteins in health and disease, definition
of enzymes and their roles in cell function, therapeutics, diagnostics and inborn metabolic errors; cell signalling and
communication; nucleotides and DNA organization; DNA replication, transcription and translation; mechanism of
mendelian inheritance; mutations and disease; basic principles of chromosomal aberrations and cytogenetics; basic
principles of bioinformatics; techniques in DNA isolation, pcr, sequencing and microarrays; DNA and protein
electrophoresis; point of care diagnostics.
The continuous assessment (CA): 40% (minimum of 3 tests and 2 assignments).

Examination: 60% (1 x 3 hours written paper + 1½ h practical examination)
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Module Title: General Biochemistry II
Code: BCM3631
NQF level: 5
Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours + 4 hours of practicals per week for 16 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: none
Module Aims:
The module focuses on the metabolism and storage of macromolecules, energy transduction and the biochemical
basis of nutrition. Students will learn about how the catabolism and anabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and
vitamins drive cellular homeostasis and how deregulation of these activities lead to disease. Students will also learn
about metabolism of xenobiotics and principles of drug-drug interactions and basic haematopoiesis.
Module content
This modules covers the following topics: Principles of bioenergetics; cellular redox systems, inhibitors and regulators of
oxidative metabolism; carbon monoxide poisoning; mitochondrial dysfunction in fertility and disease states;
haematopoiesis, heme metabolism, jaundice and porphyrias; glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and oxidative metabolism;
glycemic indices of foods, pentose phosphate pathway and maintenance of RBC redox status; importance of g6pd
deficiency in primaquine therapeutics and malaria; glycogen metabolism, fatty acid metabolism in the liver, impaired
oxidation of fatty acids and fatty liver; eicosanoids in health and inflammation; disorders of lipoprotein metabolism
and cardiovascular disease, amino acid degradation, urea cycle and inborn errors of metabolism, principles of
metabolic regulation and biochemical basis of cancer; food intake and control mechanisms, definition of kwashiorkor,
marasmus, malnutrition and diarrheal disease; sterols and bile acid metabolism, importance of nutrigenetics and
nutrigenomics, xenobiotics and role of CYP enzymes in metabolic regulation and drug-drug interactions.
Examination: 60% (1 x 3 hours written paper + 1½ h practical examination)
Module Title: Medical Microbiology I
Code: MCB 3631
NQF level: 6
Notation: 160
Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours + 4 hours of laboratory practical per week
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 2nd year semester2
Module Aims
The module aims to introduce the basic principles and application of medical microbiology and immunology with
relevance to clinical disease in the preparation of students to become physicians. Also, the module aims to enable
students to understand the nature, metabolism, nutrition, growth, pathogenicity, and prevention of bacteria of
medical significance and understand their interactions with the human body to cause disease. Furthermore, the
module will give insight to students on understanding the basic characteristics and functions of the immune system
and its responses to intrusion of pathogens and or foreign bodies into the body and the application of immune factors
in the prevention and treatment of disease.
Module Content
This module will cover bacterial nomenclature, structure, growth, nutrition, metabolism, pathogenicity and
pathophysiological changes resulting from bacterial infections as well as the immunological responses to infection will
be discussed; mechanisms of action of major classes of anti-microbial agents, drug resistance, multidrug resistant
organisms and the physical and chemical methods used thereof in the prevention of infectious microorganisms; Basic
concepts in immunology, components of the immune system, principles of innate and adaptive immunity, antigen
recognition by B and T cells, development, maturation and survival of lymphocytes, adaptive Immunity to infection,
failures of Host defence Mechanisms, (tolerance, allergy and hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, immunodeficiency,
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immunosuppression), tissue transplant, immune-surveillance, tumour immunity, transplant immunology,
immunotherapy and immunization.
The continuous assessment (CA): 50 % (minimum of 2 tests and 2 practicals).
Examination: 50 % (1 X 3 hours paper and 1 ½ practical paper)
Module Title: Medical Microbiology II
Code: MCB 3711

NQF level: 7
Notation 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 3rd year semester 1
Module Aims
The aim of Module is to introduce the basic principles and application of mycology, virology, parasitology and
entomology to clinical disease with relevance. This module will give a student to develop both informatics and
diagnostic skills in medical virology, mycology, parasitology and entomology so that they can apply this in clinical
setting. The module will enable students understand the nature, metabolism, nutrition, growth, life cycles,
pathogenicity, and prevention of viral, fungal and parasitic pathogens of medical significance and understand their
interactions with the human body to cause disease.
Module Content
Topics include: Parasitology; Overview of parasite, host, parasitism, parasitic diseases prevalent in Namibia and world,
Classification, geographical distribution, habitat, morphology, life cycle, pathogenicity (mode of infection,
pathogenesis and pathology), immune response to parasitic invasion and escape mechanism and laboratory
diagnosis and prevention and control of medically important protozoa and helminthes: Entamoeba histolytica,
Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas, Ascaris, Ancyclostoma and Necator, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura,
Strongloides, Taenia, Echinococcus, Hymenolepsis nana, Brugia, Loaloa, Onchocerca, Dracunculosus, Plasmodium,
Leishmania, African and South American trypanosomiasis, Toxoplasma, Wucheria and; Medical entomology (insects
and arachnids) ; Mycology; Classification, general structure, physiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis treatment,
prevention and control of medical important fungi; superficial mycosis, deep or systemic mycoses, opportunistic
mycoses, fungal toxin and Allergies fungal drugs. Virology; History and principles of virology, Taxonomy and replication
strategies of various viruses and Bacteriophages; Classification, structure, medical importance, pathogenesis and
laboratory diagnosis of Poxviruses, Herpes viruses, Adenoviruses, Picornavirus, Orthomyxovirus, Paramyxovirus,
Arbovirus, Rhabdo viruses, Hepatitis viruses, Retrovirus (HIV, HTLV etc), emerging viruses (SARS,MERS), Oncogenic virus,
prions, Antiviral drugs; Technique of Diagnostic virology: Cultivation and purification of viruses.Principle and application
of serodiagnostic methods-hemagglutination and haemagglutination inhibition tests, Complement fixation,
neutralization.
Module Title: Clinical Microbiology
Code: MCB3702
NQF level: 7
Notation: 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: MCM 3631 & MCM 3632
Module Aims
To able student apply the knowledge and skill they acquired in basic microbiology to elicit history, symptoms and
clinical signs of infections in various human organ-systems, make appropriate request, take relevant specimen and be
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able to interpret laboratory tests. The student should be able to grasp the principles of treatment, prevention and
control infectious diseases in a healthcare setting.
Module Content
Organ-system approach will be use; Musculoskeletal system infections ( osteomyelitis, septic arthritis,pyomyositis
etc.); Respiratory system infections( pharyngitis, tonsillitis, Tuberculosis, pneumonia, empyema etc);
cardiovascular systems( Septicemia, Rheumatic fever, infective endocarditis etc.) ; gastrointestinal system and
the biliary system infections( Peptic ulcer disease, secretive & Inflammatory diarrhoeas, dysentery etc.) ;
Urogenital system( UTI, STDs & STI): Central nervous system infections( Meningitis, encephalitis etc.); Skin conditions
( Carbuncles, folliculitis, Tineas,etc), HIV and opportunistic infections, Hospital acquired infections and infection
control and prevention. The entire topics will be taught under sub-titles of epidemiology, transmission, natural
history of the common infections; pathogenesis and clinical manifestations; diagnosis; treatment; prevention and
control.
Module Title: Systems Physiology I
Code: PLG3511
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: None
Module Aims
The Systems Physiology Course is a two-semester module designed to provide an understanding how cells, tissues,
organs, and organ systems function together to create one human organism. The course lays the basis for
understanding diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Laboratories include presentations of clinical cases, practicing of
clinical procedures, and debriefing of problem-solving skills.
Module Content
The study of physiology encompasses a number of fields of study; from molecules to ecosystems. Here we begin with
an investigation of basic cell processes. The students will be expected to understand how molecular interactions are
integral to the generation, storage and utilization of energy, signalling and cellular dynamics. Building upon this we
will stress the importance of cellular and tissue compartmentation, and how information flows within a cellular and
mass context. The integration of these systems and how they may impact homeostasis is also of critical importance.
By the end of the course students will also be familiar with the components and mechanics of the: Basic Cell
Processes, energy and cellular metabolism, membrane dynamics and communication, integration, and
homeostasis; the cellular and network properties of neurons and how they function within the context of the central
and peripheral nervous systems; the Muscular Skeletal system and the control of body movement; the structure and
function of the endocrine system; digestive system; cardiovascular control including blood flow and the control of
blood pressure; respiratory mechanics and gas exchange; blood and blood products; renal function and control
including fluid and electrolyte balance; exercise and metabolism; reproduction and development.
The continuous assessment (CA): 50 % (minimum of 2 tests and 5laboratory exercises).
Examination: 50 % (1 X 2 hours paper)
Module Title: Systems Physiology II
Code: PLG3512
NQF level: 5
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: None
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Module Aims
The Systems Physiology Course is a two-semester module designed to provide an understanding how cells, tissues,
organs, and organ systems function together to create one human organism. The course lays the basis for
understanding diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Laboratories include presentations of clinical cases, practicing
of clinical procedures, and debriefing of problem-solving skills.
Module Content
The study of physiology encompasses a number of fields of study; from molecules to ecosystems. Here we begin with
an investigation of basic cell processes. The students will be expected to understand how molecular interactions are
integral to the generation, storage and utilization of energy, signalling and cellular dynamics. Building upon this we
will stress the importance of cellular and tissue compartmentation, and how information flows within a cellular and
mass context. The integration of these systems and how they may impact homeostasis is also of critical importance.
By the end of the course students will also be familiar with the components and mechanics of the:
1. Basic Cell Processes including cells and tissues, energy and cellular metabolism, membrane dynamics and
finally, communication, integration, and homeostasis.
2. The cellular and network properties of neurons and how they function within the context of the central and
peripheral nervous systems.
3. The Muscular Skeletal system and the control of body movement
4. The structure and function of the endocrine system
5. Digestive System
6. Cardiovascular control including blood flow and the control of blood pressure
7. Respiratory mechanics and gas exchange
8. Blood and blood products
9. Renal function and control including fluid and electrolyte balance
10. Exercise and metabolism
11. Reproduction and development
The continuous assessment (CA): 50 % (minimum of 2 tests and 5laboratory exercises).
Module Title: Pathophysiology
Code: PLG3611
NQF level: 6
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: None
Module Aims
Pathophysiology is the study of disordered physiological processes associated with disease or injury. This course is an
introduction to pathophysiology designed specifically to meet the needs of students preparing for careers in the
health professions. This course will build on prior knowledge of anatomy and physiology as we explore body functions
in altered health conditions.
Module Content
The course focuses on the changes in cellular and systemic physiology that occur in prevalent or important medical
conditions. At the cellular level we will cover the responses to tissue injury, abnormal cell growth and the immune
system. From there we will investigate the physiological basis of problems associated with most of the major organ
systems. In each case we will discuss the effect upon whole body homeostasis.
Topics include: (1) Describing cell injury and its importance in pathophysiological manifestations of disease, (2)
Outlining the basic pathophysiological mechanisms leading to the diseased state, (3) Explaining how changes in
physiology lead to signs and symptoms of disease (4) Synthesizing important systemic complications during organ or
organ system failure and (5) Describing the compensatory mechanisms to restore homeostasis.
The continuous assessment (CA): 50 % (minimum of 2 tests and 5 laboratory exercises).
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Module Title: Anatomical Pathology
Code: PTG3612
NQF level: 6
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours + 4hours of tutorial
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
Pathology (also commonly referred to as laboratory medicine) comprises those services which provide knowledge
and diagnostic information for the care of individual patients through the scientific analysis of specimens of blood,
fluids, tissues and other samples. Pathology services constitute an essential element of clinical services through the
contribution they make to the effective prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of disease,
especially chronic disease. This curriculum in pathology is organized in three modules comprised of histopathology,
chemical pathology and haematology.
Module Content
This module intends to impart basic knowledge and skills of histopathology derived from surgical pathology, basic
autopsy and cytopathology. There will be revision of basic knowledge of major pathological processes gained earlier
in pathophysiology through topics that should include causes of and responses to cellular injury, acute and chronic
inflammation, neoplasia, the effects and the environment in health and disease, infections and the basics of
immunology. In general, surgical pathology, for microscopy, students will be exposed to recognize normal histology
and normal variations of common tissue types, select appropriate histochemical stains for glycogen, fat, mucins and
amyloid; familiarize with basic immunohistochemical markers for major tissue and tumour types.; for macroscopic
pathology, lymph node anatomy and dissection in cancer specimens, ink excision margins will be revisited. Apart from
the general surgical pathology, organs/system surgical pathology will deal with the macroscopic and microscopic
pathologies of the following: breast, upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts, respiratory, skin, lymphoreticular
pathology, ENT, head and neck, female and male genital tracts, liver and gall bladder, cardiovascular system,
endocrine pathology, soft tissue, neuropathology, renal and urological pathology, osteoarticular pathology and
paediatric pathology.
Students will be introduced to autopsy pathology, with the hope that they will recognize histological changes that
occur due to post-mortem artefact. Anatomical features and dissection techniques will be performed on the organ
systems enumerated in the section of surgical pathology above. The anatomical features and dissection technique
of the organ systems will be correlated with the clinico-pathology knowledge base, for instance osteoporosis during
identification of fractures, splenic enlargement or atrophy during examination of spleen etc.
In cytopathology, students will be introduced to general technical aspects of cytology such as sampling devices used
and the fixation of specimens, basic knowledge of the range of methods for converting a raw sample into a slide;
morphological aspects such as the nuclear features used to diagnose malignancy, features used to determine
differentiation of a neoplasm. Topics such as cervical screening, squamous carcinoma and adenocarcinoma will be
covered in cervical cytopathology while the role of needle aspirate samples from lung, breast, thyroid, salivary gland,
lymph node and other sites will be covered under the non-cervical pathology.
Continuous assessment mark: 40% Continuous assessment
Examination mark: 60% Examination (1 x 3 hours written paper+ 1½ practical examination)
Module Title: Chemical Pathology
Code: CMM3702
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours + 2hours of practice
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
Through this module students will learn about the biochemical and metabolic basis of disease, and the mechanisms
involved in restoration and maintenance of normal state. Students will also learn about the approaches to clinical
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reasoning guiding the choice of laboratory tests, interpretation of results of tests, decision making therefrom, the
analytical methods themselves and their limitations.
Module Content
This module also commonly referred to as clinical chemistry or clinical biochemistry, is intended as a guide to offer a
comprehensive programme on the biochemistry and physiology of human disease, with emphasis on the proper
interpretation of information provided by the chemical pathology laboratory to the clinician. The thrust is on the theory,
principles and practice of physiological chemistry, abnormal body chemistry and the different biochemical
procedures used in the investigation of disease. The themes of the module are designed to outline background to
chemical pathology; cover the routine analyses that would form the basic repertoire of most
hospital laboratories; the endocrinology, and specialized investigations which are less commonly requested, but
important analyses.
In a nutshell, the module will focus on introduction to the practice of laboratory medicine that includes basic
laboratory principles, quality control and quality assurance, few selected analytical methods, clinical chemical
pathology (e.g. water and electrolytes, renal, acid base regulation, carbohydrates and lipids, proteins and enzymes,
liver and gastrointestinal tract, basic endocrinology), calcium and bone disease, magnesium and phosphate,
haemoglobin and porphyrins, purine and pyrimidine metabolism, inborn errors of metabolism, paediatrics
biochemistry, nutritional disorders, neurological diseases and psychiatric diseases, cancer and tumour markers,
Module Title: Haematology
Code: PTG3711
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours + 2hours of practice
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: PLG3511, PLG3412, PLG3611
Module Aims
This module will equip the students with knowledge and skills of the morphology and pathophysiology of blood.
Student will also master skills and techniques investigating the number, structure and function of the cellular
elements, using sophisticated technology to count and size all the types of cells and a variety of staining techniques
to make a detailed morphological examination of cells leading to the elucidation of disorders of the blood. Finally,
students will also learn about blood transfusion services and the use of blood and its products in medical practice.
Module Content
The module provides comprehensive knowledge on the developmental process of all three haemopoietic cell lines
of erythropoiesis, thrombopoiesis, lymphocyte and leucocyte maturation and differentiation; understanding the role
growth factors in haemopoiesis and cytokines in haemopoietic proliferation differentiation and maturation;
morphology (indication and interpretation of stains used in the peripheral blood smear; normal cellular morphology
and composition of peripheral blood; qualitative and quantitative abnormalities of erythrocytes, platelets and white
cells); haematologic malignancies (leukaemia, polycythaemia vera, myelofibrosis, thrombocythaemia); haemostasis
and thrombosis (comprehensive knowledge of function of the various components of haemostasis; diagnosis of
various congenital bleeding disorders); blood transfusion (genetics and biochemistry of major blood cell antigens such
as ABO, Rhesus, HLA; principles of pretransfusion testing such as basic blood grouping, procedures for compatibility
testing, principles of cross match strategies, and principles of antibodies identification); specialized haematology
diagnostic modalities (to acquire comprehensive knowledge of the commonly used diagnostic panels such as acute
leukaemic screen, chronic screen, plasma screen, CD34 analysis, Platelet marker analysis).
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Module Title: Medical Imaging and Diagnostic
Code: PLG3701
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 80
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 4th year semester 1
Module Aims
This module equips students with knowledge and skills of radiology and radiation, correlating it with normal anatomy.
The student grasps clinical reasoning skills necessary for interpreting radiological studies, understanding the role of
imaging in clinical investigation and management guidelines and legislation on radiation and radiation protection
Module Content
Medical Imaging: Introduction to medical physics, radiation and use of radioisotopes in medicine as a diagnostic tool
and for treatment. The module discusses risks to radiation, radiation protection, and legislation on radiation, various
imaging techniques, the normal appearance of various tissues and organs in plain films, angiography, contrast studies,
tomography and resonance. At the end of the module, a student will be able to differentiate normal from abnormal
findings in radiographs and diagnose common pathologies in the chest, abdomen, bone and the skeletal system. The
student will also be able to institute due care practices in requesting for imaging investigations, be mindful of the
comfort of the patient and obtain consent as necessary. Topics covered include principles of radiation physics and
radiological technology; radiation protection; radiobiology; X-rays: normal systemic anatomy using plain X-rays (plain
films, contrast studies); imaging modalities and their application; radio-isotope imaging, computerized tomography,
magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, radiological, angiography, images of osteomyoarticular, respiratory,
circulatory, digestive, urogenital, haemolymphopoietic, and endocrine systems; radio-therapeutics and bio-effects of
radiation.
Applied radiology and diagnostics: cost-effective use of medical imaging, the use of plain films as an imaging primary
technique for the general physician, actual working with the ultrasound in bedside care of patients, the benefits of
tomography, angiography and radio-magnetic resonance. Topics in neuroscience include MRI, CT and plain films:
haemorrhage, subarachnoid and subdural haemorrhage, infarct, oedema, mass and hydrocephaly; in the spine:
metastatic mass, disc disease, compression; abdomen: bowel obstruction, aortic aneurysm, renal mass pancreatic
mass, hepatic mass, abdominal mass; Chest: pneumonia, effusion, atelectasis, nodule, congestive heart failure,
pulmonary oedema, pneumothorax; pelvis: prostate nodule, testicular mass; neck: thyroid nodule; indications of
ECHO cardiograph, Doppler; bile duct ultra sound; use of ultra sound and radioisotopes in treatment
Examination mark: 60% Examination (1 x 3 hours written paper)
Module Title: Sociology of Health and Disease
Code: CMM3511
NQF Level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3 lecture hours + 4 P hours per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims:
The module aims at equipping students with knowledge and skills necessary to practice in different social-cultural
settings. Students will learn about the indirect pathways between sociology and health/disease with emphasis on the
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role of that beliefs and behaviours play in health and illness. The goal of the module is to acquaint students with the
sociological construct of health, illness and disease which considers the structural and social factors not necessarily
relying on biological and medical explanations of health and disease. The structural discourse will amylase political,
economic, and sociocultural elements that foster ill/health as well as the forces that allow or constrain the healthcare
system and responses to illness.
Module Content
Sociological understanding of health, illness and disease considers the structural and social factors and not largely
relies on biological medical explanations of health and disease. The structural emphasis will entail consideration of the
political, economic and social cultural elements that foster ill/ health, as well as the forces that allows/ constrain the
health care system and responses to illness. The module also focuses on the indirect pathway between
sociology and health/disease, and emphasizes the role that beliefs and behaviours play in health and illness.
Furthermore, the module will address the sociological definition of disease, explore major theoretical perspectives in
health, behavioural science, and sociology, the influence of class, gender and ethnicity on health; global and rural
health problems; health promotion and community health services among others. This will enable the students to
understand the social determinants of heath, social construction of illness, social meanings of illness, patterns in the
distribution of health and illnesses, people health seeking behaviours; interaction between patients and the health
provider. The course will also explore medicine as power and social control and the role of alternative medicines.
Students will also examine health-related behaviours and apply many of the theories to specific behaviours, e.g.
addictive behaviours and the factors that predict smoking and alcohol consumption as well as Gender Based
Violence and HIV. Throughout the course students will focus on the interrelationships between beliefs, behaviour and
health using the example of placebo effects; illustration of this interrelationship in the context of illness, focusing on
HIV, cancer, obesity and coronary heart disease; aspects of health; the problems with measuring health
status and the issues surrounding the measurement of quality of life.
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Final Examination: 60%
Module Title: Developmental Psychology
Code: PCT3600
NQF Level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 2 lecture hours per week for two semesters
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 2nd year semesters 1 and 2
Module Aims:
Through this module students will gain knowledge of the theories of psychosexual development normal physical,
cognitive and emotional development and their application in states of health and disease. Students will also learn
about the approaches to the diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of people with suspected cognitive or
psychological or behavioural conditions.
Module Content
This module focuses on applicable developmental theories such as the psychodynamic theory, particularly
psychosexual theory and psychosocial theory and developmental theories of cognitive development. To
be considered here are theory of cognitive development as well as theory of cognitive
development (sociocultural-historical theory, particularly the notions of the zone of proximal development and
scaffolding in cognitive development). The course will examine perinatal/prenatal development, including the period
from conception to birth. Environmental influences on prenatal development, hereditary/genetic influences on
human development and hereditary/genetic transmission, genetic and chromosomal abnormalities, birth
complications, and maternal stress will be explored. How sense and perceive the world will be examined.
Furthermore, the course will examine the five domains of human development from infancy, adolescence, through
adulthood (cognitive development, physical development, emotional development, social development and
language development (attainment of normal developmental milestone)). Finally, chronic illness in childhood and
hospitalization, as well as child physical, emotional, and sexual abuse will be covered. The development of the
concept of death among children will also be discussed.
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Examination: 60% (1 x 3 hours written paper)
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service I
Code: CMM3600
NQF Level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 4 hours of integrated learning and Household attachment
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 2nd year semesters1 and 2
Course Aims
The aims of this module are to prepare the student to practice in different socio-economic cultural and technological
settings in Namibia, the region or internationally. This module integrates core principles of community medicine and
family medicine and helps the student to gain knowledge and skills essential for evidence-based delivery of a
continuum healthcare services to an individual patient, family, community or population groups. The module also
assists students to internalize the ethical values particularly the tenets of human dignity, social justice, equity and right
based healthcare services. The module gives opportunities for the students to address the root causes of health
conditions to improve the well-being of the family. The experience gained will help the students to identify resources
in the household and leverage this for health in support of health promotion, prevention, control, treatment and
rehabilitation. The module also allows students to learn how through the application of principles and practice of
Community Based Education leads to transforming of individuals, families and communities into well-informed, self
reliant and empowered society.
Module Content
The construct of a family; urban household set up; socio-economic and cultural determinants of health at household
setting i.e. the basic unit of society; health seeking behaviour, access and demand factors as well as culturally
mandated disposal of household income and allocation to health; longitudinal follow and observational techniques;
health outcomes for pregnancy, childhood and in chronic disease as well among the elderly or aged persons; primary
care elements, health education, health promotion, antenatal care, well baby and well mother clinics as well as
making observation such as DOTS; household resources and resource allocation; the care for people with disabilities
and mental illness or other vulnerable groups. In this way a student will apply holistic approach to healthcare delivery.
This is also value-based approach that emphasizes on the role of family members in assessing and analysing their own
health problems, allocate resources to health and develop solutions; interaction of household, families, environment
and influencing factors; community strengths, resources available at household levels, socio-economic conditions,
cultural practices, educational levels, use of information to develop intervention strategies; participatory identification
of health problems, identify appropriate tools to sustain programmes developed; application of principles and
practice of community based education approach, health promotion theories, integrated health education
application.
The continuous assessment 100%
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service II
Code: CMM3719
NQF Level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 4 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: CMM3512
Module Aims
This modules equips students with knowledge and skills to live and work in a rural setting as well as to formulate
evidence based community intervention that are sustainable and beneficial to the community. Through this module
students learn and practice the principles of community engagement, community entry strategies and how to provide
quality primary health care services to medically underserved communities and vulnerable populations.
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Module Content
The module covers principles of community engagement, community entry strategies; community diagnosis;
assessment of the health status of the community, community organizational institutions and their capacities; role of
the community in managing their own health and facilitate a process of needs assessment health care package for
rural Health Centres: comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services to medically
underserved communities and vulnerable populations; Health centres as community-based and patient-directed
organizations that serve populations with limited access to health care including low income populations, the
uninsured, those with limited educational proficiency, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, individuals and families
experiencing homelessness, and those living in public housing; the functioning of a Health in delivery of required
primary, preventive, enabling health services and additional health services as appropriate and necessary, either
directly or through established written arrangements and referrals.
Topics: health promotion; education; and knowledge of the disease profile in the community. Communicable and
non-communicable disease management, childhood illnesses, maternal and infant mortality assessment, existing
prevention and control programmes, communication, and behavioural impact activities; School and Place Health
Programs; mental healthcare and rehabilitation; sources of data, evaluation methods implemented; categories of
indicators used, such as infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, child mortality rate, sanitation morbidity
(incidence/ prevalence rate); leadership in the community, development of health services, infrastructure, budget
allocation for sustainability, human resources, referral system and catchment area; healthcare management
The first of four cycles in the community leads to community diagnosis, while the subsequent attachment of new
groups of students will work with the community to design and intervention, plan its implementation and lastly conduct
an evaluation. This attachment is co-supervised with the Ministry of Health and Social Services health works in the
health centre.
Module Title: Community Based Education and Service III
Code: CMM3739
NQF Level: 7
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: Community Medicine II, Family Medicine III
Semester offered: 4th year
Module Aims
The aim of this module is equipping students with knowledge and skills necessary to manage healthcare delivery
system at the district level; and to provide patient care at the first level hospital. Furthermore, through this module
student learn through the practical application of the principles and concepts of management and leadership.
Finally, students learn the core elements of family medicine by shadowing a family medicine physician in the district
or by using the guidelines in the manual on Family Practice.
Content
This module covers important topics of: the district health systems and services; the essential district health package;
the district health manager(s); the district health team; leadership; healthcare financing and health economics;
human resource management; budgeting and financial management; health information management systems;
assets security and management; health policy formulation and implementation; evaluation of projects and
interventions.
Module Title: Statistics for Health Sciences
Code: RID3512
NQF Level: 5
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 4 lecture hours for 14 weeks
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NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims:
This module aims at teaching the students how to gather and analyse data that can be used to provide honest
information about unanswered biomedical questions. The module will aim at equipping the students with technical
skills in applied statistics that is concerned with the application of statistical methods to medicine, clinical trials,
demography, population estimation, modelling, community diagnosis, surveys and survival analysis.
Module Content
Describing Univariate Data: Central Tendency, Spread, shape and graphs. Describing Bivariate Data: Scatterplots,
Introduction to Pearson's Correlation, Computational formula for Pearson's Correlation, Example values of r , Effect of
linear transformations on Pearson's Correlation, Spearman's rho. Introduction to Probability (elementary): Simple
probability, Conditional probability, Probability of A and B, Probability of A or B, Binomial distribution. Normal
Distribution: What is it? The standard normal distribution: Why is it important? Converting to percentiles and back, Area
under portions of the curve, Sampling Distributions. Sampling Distributions: Sampling distribution of the mean, Standard
error ,Central limit theorem ,Area under sampling distribution of the mean , Difference between means, Proportion
,Difference between proportions. Confidence Intervals: Overview ,Mean, σ known ,Mean, σ estimated ,General
formula ,Difference between means of independent groups, σ known ,Difference between means of independent
groups, σ estimated ,Pearson's correlation, Difference between correlations. The Logic of Hypothesis Testing: Ruling
out chance as an explanation, The null hypothesis, Steps in hypothesis testing Why the null hypothesis is not accepted,
The precise meaning of the p value, At what level is H0 really rejected? Statistical and practical significance, Type I
and II errors, One- and two-tailed tests, Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing following a non-significant finding.
Testing Hypotheses with Standard Errors: General formula Tests of µ, σ known, Tests of µ σ estimated, µ1 - µ2,
independent groups, σ estimated, µ1 - µ2, dependent means, σ estimated, Tests of Pearson's correlation, Differences
between correlations Proportions Differences between proportions. Chi square :Testing differences between p and π
,More than two categories ,Chi square test of independence ( Introduction, Calculations, Assumptions ), Reporting
results. Power: Factors affecting power; Size of difference between means, Significance level, Sample size, Variance
Other factors, Estimating power. Measuring effects: Variance explained in ANOVA, Variance explained in correlation,
Variance explained in contingency tables.
Module Title: Epidemiology
Code: RID3711
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3 hours Lecture + 1 Practical per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
This module aims to introduce students to the principles and methods used in epidemiology as it applies to disease
prevention and control in public health practice. Students will learn about the quantitative techniques of measuring
health status and investigating underlying factors for the occurrence of diseases and health outcomes.
Module Content
This module covers the following topics: history of epidemiology, definition, functions, and characteristics of
epidemiology, Definition, functions, and characteristics of epidemiology, routine data sources and descriptive
epidemiology and analytic epidemiology; epidemiological triad, natural history of disease, exposure and outcome,
incubation period and disease spread; determinants of health, epidemiology applied to specific areas (social
epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, Environmental epidemiology,
occupational epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, etc.); population health, disease burden and its indicators:
incidence, prevalence, measures of morbidity and mortality - morbidity rate, mortality rate, fertility rate, survival rate,
life expectancy, proportion, ratio, rate, Measuring of Disease and Exposure; Comparison of health problem between
different populations: Standardization of rates and ratio; Association and causality, Relating risk factors to health
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outcome; Analytic study designs; Causal inference; Sources of error; Multicausality Confounding; Outbreak
investigation; prevention strategies, diagnostics tests and screening: Sensitivity and specificity, Predictive value,
Likelihood ratio (LR), Predictive value and prevalence, Stability of the sensitivity and specificity, Clinical case definition,
measures of agreement.
The continuous assessment (CA): 50 %
Module Title: Research Methods and Proposal Writing
Code: RID3780
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 1-hour Lecture + 2 hours Practical per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: 3rd year
Module Aims
This module aims to equip the students with principles, skills and methods to conduct scientific research and analysis
required on any matter within the domain of health. Students will learn about the quantitative and qualitative
research methods.
Module Content
This module covers the following topics: Introduction to Quantitative research and Qualitative research, Literature
Review, Identification, selection, analysis and formulation of the research problem; Identification and formulation of
the research question; Hypotheses formulation. Formulate a problem statement and justification of the study,
formulation of the study objectives.
Classification of study types: Descriptive studies - Exploratory Studies, Cross-sectional studies, Case report, case series,
correlational studies. Analytical studies - Cohort studies, Case control studies, Comparative Cross-sectional studies.
Intervention studies: Clinical trials, Experimental studies, Quasi-experimental studies, fields interventional studies. The
advantages and disadvantages of the different of studies design.
Sampling Methods: Non-probability sampling, Probabilistic or random sampling; sample size determination. Study
population, Specification study variables, and types of variables.
The Data collection methods Data collection techniques, development of data collection tools and/or
questionnaires. Report writing, Citation of references and referencing styles - The Harvard system, Vancouver style,
APA. Ethical Considerations in health research, Research project administration. Research proposal development.
Module Title: Nutrition and Dietetics
Code: CMM3711
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 1 hours Lecture + 2 Practical per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
This module aims to equip students with necessary knowledge on the role diet plays in health, disease causation,
prevention, development, and treatment of most of major diseases. The clinical nutrition program prepares
students to manage medical conditions using specific nutritional strategies. The module also will enable students to
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discuss the interplay between availability of food (food security), culture, dietary supplementation and diversification,
growth and development and individual life style.
Module Content
Major areas to be addressed include: Fundamentals of Nutrition and Metabolism, Disease-related Malnutrition,
Practical Nutritional Assessment, Therapeutic Aspects of Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition and Public Health, Malnutrition in
the Community, Disease and Disordered Eating. It will provide an overview of the importance of nutrition in health and
will enable students to gain a general foundation in the different types of malnutrition (both under and over nutrition)
including micronutrient deficiencies.
Other areas include: Nutritional concepts, nutritional needs through life cycle, including digestion, absorption,
metabolism, storage, and excretion of nutrients and other markers of nutritional adequacy or excess with emphasis
on micronutrients. Functions, dietary sources and deficiencies of essential nutrients in humans; a balanced diet; role
of nutrients in heart disease, cancer, hypertension, osteoporosis; weight control and eating disorders; vegetarianism;
food safety; dietary supplements; government regulation of food supply. This unit will cover the following area
Clinical nutrition: This is nutrition of patients in health care settings. Clinical in this sense refers to the management of
patients, including not only outpatients at clinics, but also (and mainly) inpatients in hospitals. It incorporates primarily
the scientific fields of nutrition and dietetics. It aims to keep a healthy energy balance in patients, as well as providing
sufficient amounts other nutrients such as protein, vitamins and minerals
Module Title: Health Systems Management
Code: CMM3701
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Semester offered: Year 4 semester 1
Module Aims
To provide student the skills to manage the different roles of individuals in the health system management is including
skills in leadership, financial management, health care policy, marketing, and human resources
Module Content
As a manager of a primary care centres, responsibilities include coordination of the hiring and firing of clerical staff,
instituting community outreach, marketing the services of the centres within the community, financial planning, and
overseeing the billing sequence. The roles are site specific in that the needs of the different types of health services
determine what responsibilities logically belong to the administrator
Students will be introduced in leadership skills which is needed for success in health service administration. It will also
focus around effective communication and understanding the principles of many theories used to characterize
organization management.
Health economics applies the tools of economics to issues of the organization, delivery, and financing of health care.
The objectives of this course are to: (1) develop an understanding of the relevance of economic concepts to the
health care sector, (2) to describe the system of health care financing and delivery arrangements in the health care
sector, and (3) to impart an understanding of the role of economic factors in the development of public policy
concerning health and health care.
Financial management will include the ability to develop and assess a budget, to determine where monies are best
spent, to set up systems to monitor and evaluate the outcomes, to complete a cost benefit analysis of the service
provided, and the ability to write up the needed reports. A meaningful budget that avoids overpayment of anything
is a must in today's marketplace. Thus, health services administration is focused on insuring that costs (output) are
offset by income through budgetary and fiduciary oversight
Human resources training will deal with the personnel component of any organization. For a health services
administrator, the responsibilities would include developing policy for hiring, discipline, and termination of personnel
through direct management or as a supervisor of the individual assigned to these services. Adherence to state
employment law is an integral part of this responsibility
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1. Continuous assessment (40%)
2. End of module examination (60%): 1 x 3 hours paper
Module Title: Electives
Code: MDC3789
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 240
Contact Hours: 35 hours fieldwork per week
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
This module aims to empower the student to plan his/her own learning and personal growth in perspective of his/her
own future career development. The module also aims at developing the adaptation skills, cultural sensitivity and the
practice of medicine in different socio-economic - technological settings.
Module Content
Three elective blocks of 8 weeks each have been established within the School of Medicine program in the second,
third and fourth years (24 weeks total). This time is allocated within the MBChB program to allow students to investigate
elements of medicine that are outside the core curriculum, that complement an area of interest or to study subjects
in greater detail. In all, it is expected that students will complete 16 weeks of training in the allotted elective time. The
student will have to develop the elective proposal, work plan and successfully defend it. The established eight-week
blocks may be broken into blocks of four weeks (not smaller) but electives cannot run concurrently. Upon completing
an elective, the student is responsible for ensuring that his or her evaluation form is completed and submitted to the
School of Medicine for credit. The School of Medicine recognizes the importance rural practice and as such requires
that at least two four-week blocks must be undertaken as rural attachments domestically. In all cases students must
seek approval of a specific elective and the School reserves the right to approve and or cancel chosen electives.
We will also actively discourage students from scheduling electives during periods the School has designated for
vacation.
The continuous assessment (CA): 100% Continuous Assessment
Module Title: Family Medicine I
Code: FMM3601
NQF: 6
Notional hours 160
Contact Hours: 2 + 2P hours per week for 14 weeks
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: None
Compulsory/Elective: Compulsory
Module Aims
The module aims at introducing students to the principles of Family Medicine, the role of the Family Physician and the
Synergy between Family Medicine, core concepts of Primary Health Care, Community and Family oriented primary
care. It will explore the relationship between lifestyle and the health of a community, the application of health
promotion theory and approaches, the planning and development of health promotion interventions. It will also
introduce the student to the principles of Community Orientated Primary Care (COPC) and working with communities,
as well as general systems theory as applied to Family Medicine and Family Orientated Primary Care (FOPC). This
course builds on Public Health approaches such as Epidemiology which are covered in other modules.
Module Content
The module covers the following topics: Definitions of Family Medicine, Primary Health Care and Public Health and
how they overlap; Primary Health Care origins, different approaches and challenges; Disease Prevention and Health
promotion definitions, approaches and behaviour change theories, principles of disease prevention and social
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determinants of ill health; Communicable and Non-communicable diseases and screening for preventable
conditions; Brief behaviour change counselling and how to communicate health information; Community orientated
primary care (COPC) and how to apply the principles of COPC; Family- orientated primary care and how to utilize
different tools to assess family function e.g. genograms, ecomaps and family APGAR as well as conducting a home
visit and family conference.
• Continuous assessment (40%)
• End of module examination (60%): 1 x 3 hours paper
Module Title: Family Medicine II
Code: FMM3701
NQF: 7
Notional hours 160
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: FMM3601
Module Aims
This module aims to introduce the student to the key components of Family Medicine. These include: The primary care
consultation, communication and counselling skills, and ethics relevant to Family Medicine. The student will develop
a clear understanding of what constitutes Family Medicine and how Family Medicine forms an integral part of other
disciplines of medicine.
Module Content
The module covers the following topics; the principles of Family Medicine; the Bio-psychosocial approach and the use
of the three-stage assessment; patient-centeredness and the dynamics of the consultation; comprehensive primary
care assessment model); communication and basic counselling skills; bioethics and an approach to solving
ethical dilemmas in clinical practice.
Module Title: Family Medicine III
Code: FMM3711
NQF: 7
Notional hours 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: FMM3601 and FMM3701
Module Aims
This module aims to introduce students to environmental and occupational health and safety, disability and the
management of disability within the primary health care setting and gerontology. Also, the module aims to equip
students with the knowledge on management of common diseases and disability and people with health special
needs in the community.
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Module Content
The module covers the following topics; Environmental and Occupational health and Disability and Rehabilitation in
primary health car as well as Gerontology and the primary care needs of older persons.
Module Title: Research Project
Code: RPD3810
NQF level: 8
Notional hours: 320
Contact Hours: 4 hours per week
NQF Credits: 32
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to enable able student to: develop and apply the knowledge and skills required in identifying
and prioritizing public health problems and systematically investigating them with the view to finding practical
answers. By carrying out a modest research project and producing a report in this module, students are provided the
opportunity to consolidate the various research methods, statistical and epidemiological techniques and other public
health theoretical lessons they studied in the previous years.
Module Content
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: The student focuses on data collection during the first semester of the fourth year
as a longitudinal module from primary or secondary sources in Windhoek /Khomas region. According to the proposal,
the data can be from the clinics, hospital, City Council, Ministry of Health and Social Services or its institutions or from
the community in a specified income cluster. The student will apply the skills of research methodology and
epidemiology to clean and process the data using a suitable software package. At the end of the semester, the
student will make a presentation detailing the results of the field work, summary tables and preliminary findings.
Feedback from the student conference assists the student to review the analytical framework and finalize the data
analysis. The conference presentation rating will constitute the continuous assessment for the semester. The student
can then proceed to write the thesis using the UNAM format. Optionally, students can write a scientific paper to be
submitted in refereed journal.
WRITING AND PRESENTATION OF THESIS: This final stage is for the student to write the Thesis with regular advice from
the Faculty mentor. The student will be able to make revisions using advice from the mentor aiming at producing the
final revised copy one month before the end of the tenth semester (end of year 5 academic year). The Thesis will be
graded by two faculty appointed evaluators. The student will also make a presentation of the research study at the
final student conference to be held before graduation. The mentor will assist a student who requests to prepare a
manuscript for publication in a referred scientific journal.
100 % continuous assessment of the project report by two designated Faculty members other than the supervisor.
Module Title: Pharmacology I
Code: PMG3612
NQF level: 6
Contact Hours: 4 lecture hours per week for 16 weeks
NQF Credits: 16
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Pre-requisite: None
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Semester offered: 2 year semester 2
Module Aims:
The module introduces students to principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics as integrated concepts
that explain the effects and mechanisms of drug actions. It lays the foundation for understanding of drug
therapy as will be taught in subsequent modules in the pharmacotherapy of systemic diseases.
Module content
Mechanisms and equations of drug receptor interactions; nature and types of drug dose response curves;
pharmacodynamic terms describing drug dose effectiveness and safety; agonist and antagonist drug dose response
curves and spare receptor theory; drug receptor families, cellular signal transduction pathways and second
messengers; drug formulations and routes of drug administration; drug transport process, drug absorption, distribution
and elimination; drug extraction ratio and clearance; effects of organ perfusion, protein binding and enzymatic
activity on rates of drug elimination; pharmacokinetic compartment models; Pharmacokinetic parameters their
definitions and implications in drug therapy; drug plasma concentration time curves; pharmacokinetic models and
equations and the use of semi-logarithmic graphs for determining pharmacokinetic parameters; drug metabolism
and drug metabolizing enzymes; enzyme induction and inhibition; Fundamental principles of drug interactions
The continuous assessment (CA): 40%
Module Title: Pharmacology II
Code: PMG3711
NQF level: 7
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: PMG3612
Compulsory: Compulsory
Module Aims:
The module aims at introducing students very early in the medical programme to drug therapy in both systemic and
infectious diseases. A teaching strategy that gives preference to making students understand pharmacologic
principles as a first step in drug therapy will be adapted. Course outlines principally focus on the pharmacological
basis of drug therapy in disorders of the autonomic and somatic nervous system and renal control of the
cardiovascular system as well as the chemotherapy of bacterial infections. Much emphasis will be laid on the
development of ability to evaluate the therapeutic actions of drugs to be discussed from the perspectives
of their mechanisms of action and pharmacological properties. Mechanisms of action, activity limitations posed by
bacterial morphological characteristics, spectra of antibacterial activities, adverse effects, compatibilities and clinical
applications of antibacterial agents will similarly be the focus in presentations dealing with chemotherapy of infectious
diseases.
Module content
Neurohormonal transmission and initiation of post junctional activity; autonomic and somatic nervous system: structure
and organ innervations; peripheral neurotransmitters (acetylcholine, noradrenaline, dopamine) and co-
transmitters(ATP, adenosine, nitric oxide, endothelin, neuropeptide Y, vasoactive intestinal polypeptides); cholinergic
and adrenergic receptors: their tissue distributions and effects of their stimulations; cholinergic and anticholinergic
drugs (choline esters, natural alkaloids, anticholinesterases, atropinic drugs, neuromuscular blocking agents): their
mechanisms of action and clinical uses; sympathomimetics (α and β adrenoceptor agonists) and adrenergic receptor
blockers (α and β adrenoceptor antagonists): mechanisms of action and clinical uses; angiotensin converting enzyme
inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists and diuretics: mechanisms of action and clinical uses; Bacterial
pathogens: staining properties and morphological classifications, virulent characteristics; associations with infections
of given anatomical sites and mechanisms of resistance development; antibacterial agents (Beta-lactam antibiotics
(penicillins, cephalosporins, penems and monobactams), Glycopeptides (vancomycin and teicomycin); Protein
synthesis inhibitors: [50S ribosomal protein inhibitors (chloramphenicol, macrolides and ketolides, lincosamides,
spectogramins); 30S ribosomal protein inhibitors (Tetracyclines, glycylcyclines and aminoglycosides); bacterial nucleic
acid synthesis inhibitors (quinolones, sulphonamides and trimethoprim, metronidazole)
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Module Title: Pharmacology III
Code: PMG3712
NQF level: 7
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: General Pharmacology I
Compulsory: Compulsory
Module Aims
The module aims at preparing students to prescribe appropriate chemotherapy of antiviral, antifungal, anti-parasitic
infections and cancer chemotherapy. The pharmacological basis of drug therapy in disorders of the central nervous
system, the endocrine system and blood will particularly be covered. Much emphasis will continue to be placed on
the development of ability to evaluate the therapeutic actions of drugs to be discussed from the
perspectives of their mechanisms of action and pharmacological properties. Students will be assisted to gain
knowledge of the importance of the health team in the care of patients.
Module Content
Receptors, neurohumours and neurotransmission in the central nervous system; general anaesthetics; local
anaesthetics; analgesics: Opioid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesic agents; drug addiction and abuse;
ethanol; hypnotics and sedatives, antiepileptic drugs; anti-psychiatric, antipsychotic and anti-maniac drugs;
antidepressants and anxiolytics; principles of antibiotic prescribing; HIV replication; Antiretroviral drugs: Classifications
and mechanisms of action and resistance development; principles antiretroviral therapy and HAART; non-antiretroviral
and antifungal agents: mechanisms of their action and clinical uses particularly in opportunistic infections in immune
compromised patients; chemotherapy of parasitic infections (anti-helminthics); chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases;
tumour cell growth and cell kill hypothesis; sites of action of cytotoxic drugs in the cell cycle; antineoplastic drugs:
Classes (Cytotoxics, hormones and biologic response modifiers) therapeutic uses; adverse effects of ctotoxic drug
and their management, principles of cancer chemotherapy
Module Title: Professional Ethics
Code: RID3601
NQF: 6
Notional hours 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite:
Module Aims
The aim of this module is assisting students to develop a personal philosophy for lifelong practice of medicine and
ongoing professional growth. In particular, students will be equipped with skills to examine the four cardinal principles
of: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. In addition, students explore issues on double
effect (conflict between autonomy, beneficence, and non- maleficence), Codes on Medical ethics and deontology,
end of life decisions, and continual learning as a means to remaining competent in the era of rapidly changing
medical practice, genetic engineering and other technologic advances.
Module Content
Medical Ethics and Philosophy: This module is designed to describe the basic principles of professional conduct, ethics,
and legal practice in health, with particular emphasis on social values, norms, and culture of the Namibian society. A
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student will be able to professionally engage in his/her medical practice, observe professional conduct with regard
to patients, their families, and professional colleagues, evaluate ethical dilemmas and give professional evidence in
a court of law. Topics covered include: basic principles of ethics and philosophy in health; social obligations, values,
and norms with the emphasis of the Namibian society regarding health; the patient-physician relationship; common
ethical dilemmas: fundamental ethical guidelines, conflicts between beneficence and autonomy, patients who lack
making-decision capacity, decision about life-sustaining interventions, conflicts of interest; basic principles of medico-
legal practice, review of the health related Namibian legislative code; forensic pathology: traumatic injuries in forensic
medicine, asphyxia of medico-legal interest, sexual abuse, criminal abortion, individual identification; toxins, poisons,
venoms, drug overdose; epidemiology, diagnosis, and general principles of treatment of alcoholism and drug
dependency; HIV/AIDS; research and ethics; international codes and declarations; Hippocratic and other oaths in
medicine.
Continuous assessment (40%)
End of module examination (60%): 1 x 2 hours paper
Module Title: Anaesthesiology I
Code: ANA 3701

NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 80
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: ATM3512, ATM3611, PMG3612
Module Aims
This module aims at acquainting medical students with the essential knowledge and the practice of anaesthesia in
surgery. This module will equip the students with the commonly used anaesthetic drugs, their mechanisms of action,
and their side effects. Also, the module will enable the students to master the relevant techniques of administering
safe regional and general anaesthesia to patients.
Module Content
This course reviews the physiology, pathophysiology and anatomy of the respiratory, cardiovascular and autonomic
nervous systems as well as the pharmacology of medicines used in the context of anaesthesia.
The course will acquaint he students with pre-operative preparation of the patient and family; this includes consent
to anaesthesia and choice of appropriate pre-operative additional medications and investigations.
Students will be taught the principles of General Anaesthesia including the choice of medicines for induction and
maintenance, the application of intravenous and inhalational anaesthesia, the use of neuromuscular blocking and
analgesic agents, as well as the function of appropriate monitoring during anaesthesia. Complications of General
Anaesthesia, in particular in respect the airway management will be discussed in detail.
Students will be lectured on the principles of Regional Anaesthesia including the pharmacology of medicines used for
local and regional anaesthesia, and pain management; emphasis will put on spinal anaesthesia and the
management of its side effects and possible complications.
Examination: 60 % (1 X 3 hours paper, which includes practical examination paper)
Module Title: Anaesthesiology II
Code: ANA3880
NQF level: 8
Notional hours: 80
Contact Hours: 1 hour per week two semesters
NQF Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: ANA 3701
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Module Aims
This module aims to deepen essential knowledge the essential knowledge and the practice of anaesthesia in surgery.
This module will prepare students to determine appropriate anaesthetic method for the management of specific
conditions. Also, the module will enable the students to apply different techniques and administer the relevant
anaesthetic. The students will be equipped with skills to monitor the effectiveness of anaesthetic being used and
manage the patients during the post anaesthetic period.
Module Content
This course applies the practice of anaesthesia in different clinical settings: childhood and adulthood, the aged, in
different surgical domains, including obstetric care, and under different medical conditions.
Students observe, experience and practice pre-operative assessment and pre-medication, as well as providing peri-
operative care in the form of general and regional anaesthesia, in the set-up of clinical training by an
anaesthesiologist.
Students will learn the application and interpretation of peri-operative clinical and technical monitoring of patients.
They will gain observational and practical experience in ICU management of patients.
Examination: 60 % (1 X 2 hour OSCE, 1 x 1 hour clinical written paper)
Module Title: Internal Medicine I
Code: ITM3612
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: None
Module Aims
This course aims to introduce students to basic clinical procedure through didactic teaching and hands-on practice.
Students are equipped with knowledge and skills in Basic Patient Care, Interpersonal Communication, Physical
Examination, First Aid and Basic Life Support.
Module Content
This module covers the following topics: Infection control, universal precautions, communication skills, medical ethics,
general physical examination, systemic physical examination, First Aid, Basic Life support, physician-patient
relationships, social communication.
Continuous assessment (CA): 50 %
Module Title: Internal Medicine II
Code: ITM3789
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
Contact Hours: 3 +4P hours per week
NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: ITM3612
Semester offered: 4th year semester 1&2
Module Aims
This module aims to introduce students to various disease processes exploring the aetiology, pathogenesis, natural
history, treatment and prognosis of various systemic disorders. Students are also introduced to the process of
conducting a medical interview and physical examination of patients in the health care setting.
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Module Content
This module covers the following topics: General Medicine: Homeostasis, Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance;
Haematological disorders; Heart Failure; Lund Disease and Respiratory Failure; Renal Conditions and Renal
Failure;Metabolic Disorders; Endocrine Disorders in states of hypo function and hyper function; Liver disorders and liver
failure; Gastrointestinal malignancies; Digestive and Pancreatic Disorders; Stroke and tumours/space occupying
lesions of the brain and meninges, semi and paraplegia; allergy and autoimmune disease. Laboratory Medicine: Basic
Chemistry of Body fluids, enzymatic, biochemical and haematological tests on respiratory, circulatory,
hemolymhphopoietic and endocrine systems.
Module Title: Internal Medicine III
Code: ITM3880
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Module Aims
This course introduces students to Infectious diseases and medical conditions affecting the skin. Students learn about
different infectious agents, their modes of transmissions, diagnostic tools and therapeutic plans for individual patients
as well as for community settings.
Module Content
Approach to the patient with skin disorder, diagnostic techniques, common skin disorders, infectious dermatosis;
superficial mycosis, dermatosis caused by viruses including HIV manifestations, dermatosis caused by zoo parasites,
pyoderma, skin manifestations of sexually transmitted diseases, leprosy. Immunologically mediated skin diseases,
papulosquamous disorders: psoriasis, lichen plans; benign and malignant pigmented lesions; drugs and preparations
in common use for the treatment of common skin conditions.
Module Title: Internal Medicine IV
Code: ITM3890
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Semester offered: 6th year semesters 1 & 2
Module Aims
This module equips the student with clinical skills in Internal Medicine and, under the supervision of a qualified
Internist(s), gain practical hands-on-experience and under supervision provide professional care to individual patients,
their families, and population groups within the setting of a hospital, a household, or community. Students also learn
how to function as members of a team. The goals of the module are to prepare the student to independently carry
out a professional interview and physical examination of an adult patient, suspect the presence of a medical
condition(s), institute cost-effective investigative plan to confirm the diagnosis, develop safe and effective treatment
plan, including therapeutic procedures, after-care management, and assess quality of care. Through this module the
student acquires practical skills on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, preclinical and clinical manifestations of
communicable and non-communicable diseases, including mental health conditions and finally, the students learns
how to perform the professional tasks of a newly graduated physician in the management of illnesses resulting from
physical agents, chemicals, infectious agents, physiological and anatomical abnormalities, and degenerative
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processes affecting the nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary, digestive, and endocrine systems,
haematological, locomotor apparatus, and epidemiological health problems.
Module Content
A student intern has come across many medical conditions in the preceding years. At this point, the student intern
should be able to manage many of the common medical conditions in Namibia including:- Medical emergencies:
causes of acute pain (acute coronary syndrome), syncope and collapse, cardiac dysrhythmias, causes of acute
breathlessness (pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary oedema, life threatening asthma), causes of acute
confusional state, causes of shock syndrome, acute abdomen, anaemia and major bleeding, toxic and metabolic
emergencies; common medical condition in Namibia including: cardiac condition (ischemic heart diseases, heart
failure, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, common cardiac arrhythmias, infective endocarditis and rheumatic heart
diseases);causes and management of stroke; causes and management of pneumonia; causes and management of
pleural effusion; causes and management of ascites; causes and management of HIV and related conditions
including administration of antiretroviral therapy; causes and management of pulmonary and extra pulmonary
tuberculosis; causes and management of asthma; causes and management of COPD;
Causes and management of arthritis; causes and management of hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
and causes and management of meningitis (viral, bacterial, fungal and tuberculosis).
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology I
Module Code: OBG3712

NQF Level: 7
Notional hours: 200
Contact Hours: 1h lecture/week for 16 weeks and a 5 week clerkship
NQF Credits: 20
Prerequisite: ATM3611, PLG3611
Semester Offered: 2nd Semester of 3rd YEAR
Module Aims
The goal of this clerkship is for a student gain knowledge, skills and professional attributes necessary for evidence-
based practice in obstetrics.
Module Content
This course is designed to introduce students to the management of common obstetrical conditions and their
complications. Students will be able to evaluate normal and suspect high risk or abnormal pregnancy, carry out
selected diagnostic investigations, develop an intervention plan, observe practical and surgical interventions as
an assistant to clinical faculty member, prepare patient record, present findings to clinical faculty members, and
make proper referrals of patients.
Topics to be covered include : Conception, pregnancy & the management of normal pregnancy; high-risk
pregnancy; abnormal pregnancy; medical conditions and HIV in pregnancy; normal and abnormal labour; use of
partograph for monitoring labour; operative vaginal delivery; patho-physiology of high risk and abnormal
pregnancy; obstetric operations, e.g. caesarean section; ethical issues in obstetrics, all with specific reference to
practicing in Namibia; Miscellaneous medical disorders: Haematological problems in pregnancy; Renal disease,
Diabetes and endocrine disease; Heart disease; hypertensive disorders; malpresentation; malposition;
cephalopelvic disproportion; obstetric procedures: induction and augmentation of labour; prolonged pregnancy;
preterm labour; multiple pregnancy; disorders of foetal growth and assessment of foetal well-being; obstetric
emergencies: APH,PPH, cord prolapse, etc.; neonatal care for obstetricians; puerperium and lactation; analgesia
and anaesthesia for obstetrics; foetal monitoring during labour; antenatal care; pre-conception counselling;
Normal foetal growth; the placenta and foetal membranes; prenatal diagnosis and genetics.
Exams / assessment
Continuous Assessment Mark (CA mark) 40%
Examination mark will contribute 60%.
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology II
Module Code OBG3789
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NQF Level 7
Notional hours 200
Contact Hours 2h lectures/week for 5 weeks followed by a 5-week clerkship
NQF Credits 20
Prerequisite OBG3712
Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
Semester Offered 4th year semesters 1 & 2
Module Aims
This course aims at making the student gain knowledge, skills and professional attributes necessary for evidence-
based practice in Gynaecology.
Module Content
This module is designed to acquaint students with the use of their professional skills to identify diseases affecting the
reproductive system, conduct appropriate investigations, interpret results, explain the underlying patho-physiological
processes, and develop a management plan.
Topics to be covered include The menstrual cycle; Normal and abnormal development of the genital tract;
gynaecological exploration; major gynaecological syndromes: leucorrhoea, pelvic pain; menstruation, menstrual
abnormalities & menstrual problems: premenstrual syndrome (PMS) & dysmenorrhea; benign and malignant
conditions of vulva and vagina; benign and malignant conditions of uterus; ovarian tumours; pelvic inflammatory
disease; uterine prolapse; climacteric, menopause and post-menopause; contraception; infertility & assisted
reproduction; sexual education and family planning; Hysteroscopy and laparoscopy; Urinary incontinence; Pelvic
floor dysfunction utero-vaginal prolapse; endometriosis; chronic pelvic pain; polycystic ovary syndrome; amenorrhea
primary & secondary; Gynaecological disorders of childhood and adolescence; Gestational Trophoblastic disease;
spontaneous miscarriage; recurrent miscarriage; termination of pregnancy and the medico-legal aspect of
termination of pregnancy; Ectopic pregnancy; Acute abdomen in gynaecology; the role of Ultrasound in
Gynaecology; sexually transmitted infections (STIs); sexual assault and domestic violence.
Assessment strategies
The Continuous Assessment Mark (CA mark) 40%
Examination mark will contribute 60%.
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology III
Module Code: OBG3880

NQF Level: 8
Notional hours: 400
NQF Credits: 40
Prerequisite: OBG3789
Semester Offered: 5th year semesters 1& 2
Module Aims
The goal of the clerkship is to make student to gain knowledge, skills and professional attributes necessary for
evidence-based practice in Gynaecology.
Module Content
This module enables students to practice gynaecological and obstetrical care of patients and, under the supervision
of a Gynaecologist-Obstetrician, shadow as an intern and gain practical hands-on-experience in the care of
individual patients with conditions affecting the reproductive organ-systems and their functions in women during the
entire reproductive cycle as well as during states of pregnancy and lactation and deliver reproductive health care in
a health facility, household, or community.
Course includes performing the listed obstetrical procedures and assist in frequently performed
obstetric/gynaecologic surgical operations. Students will acquire practical skills in the assessment of sexuality,
hereditary conditions, normal pregnancy and high risk pregnancy, home delivery and institutional management of
labour; complications during labour, caesarean section and assisted/operative vaginal delivery; indications and
contra-indications of frequently used procedures, drugs and interventions; puerperium; contraception; infertility; the
epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of communicable and non-communicable diseases that
affect the reproductive system and functions including sexually transmitted infections (STI), that are prevalent in
Namibia and neighbouring countries; emergencies affecting pregnancy and the reproductive systems; evidence-
based care for women and adolescents; invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; cost-
effective and rational use of drugs; surgical interventions and laboratory investigations; screening for disease markers
for prevention of diseases; health care for populations and health groups; ethical issues and the gate-keeping role of
physicians; health resource allocation and management, and health systems research in gynaecological-obstetrical
care.
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Exams / assessment
The Continuous Assessment Mark (CA mark) 40%
Examination mark 60%.
Module Title: Obstetrics and Gynaecology IV
Module Code OBG3890

NQF Level 8
Notional hours 400
Contact Hours 10 weeks
NQF Credits 40
Prerequisite OBG3880
Semester Offered 6th year
Module Aims
The aim of this module in to impart practical skills to the student interns through hands-on apprenticeship with
minimum classroom work. In addition to learning the principles and practice of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, the
student intern will go through practical education and training in major areas of elective & emergency Obstetric
and gynaecological conditions. They will assist the intern doctors on duty and, as much as possible, shadow intern
doctors in the management of common obstetric and gynaecological emergencies.
By practicing gynaecological and obstetrical care of patients under the supervision of a
Gynaecologist/Obstetrician, the student interns will gain practical experience in the care of individual patients with
conditions affecting the reproductive organ-systems in women during the entire reproductive life as well as during
states of pregnancy and lactation and deliver reproductive health care in a health facility, household, or
community.
Student interns will clerk patients, carry out investigations, make diagnoses and, in consultation with the medical
intern or ward doctor or specialist, initiate appropriate treatment. They will prepare patients for operation; carry out
simple ward procedures like conducting normal vaginal deliveries; repair of episiotomies and simple tears;
evacuation (ERPOC) & manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) for incomplete miscarriage and assist during major
operations like caesarean section and laparotomy for ectopic pregnancy, TAH, etc., all of which geared towards
imparting practical skills to the student intern.
Mentoring of the student intern will make him/her become interested to Select obstetrics and gynaecology as a
field for future specialization
Module Content
As a way of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality emphasis will be put on the following areas for student
interns to gain more practical knowledge: Antenatal care traditional and focussed ANC; Premature rupture of
membrane (PROM) Preterm labour and Preterm birth; Induction and augmentation of labour; Hypertensive
conditions in pregnancy particularly preeclampsia, eclampsia & HELLP syndrome; Cardiac disease in pregnancy;
Operative vaginal delivery i.e. vacuum extraction and low forceps delivery; Caesarean section/delivery;
Obstructed labour & ruptured uterus; Retained placenta; Post-partum haemorrhage; Puerperal sepsis; Acute
abdomen in obstetrics ectopic pregnancy, appendicitis in pregnancy, red degeneration, etc.
The following gynaecology topics will also be taught to the student interns: Post-abortal care incomplete abortion,
septic abortion, etc. (the 4 pillars of post-abortal care) Postpartum sterilization; Short term and long term
contraceptive methods; Infertility; Medico-legal aspects of sexual assault and/or rape; Termination of pregnancy
and Medico-legal aspects of termination of pregnancy; Sexually transmitted infections; Pelvic infections pelvic
inflammatory disease; Uterine fibroids; Pre- and post-operative assessment and care and Discharge plans.
Assessment
Continuous Assessment (CA) 40%
Examination Mark 60%
Module Title: Paediatrics I
Code: PDC3712
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
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NQF Credits: 16
Pre-requisite: None
Semester offered 3rd year semester 2
Module Aims
This module aims at equipping the students with knowledge and skills to recognize normal child growth and
development identify abnormalities in growth and development, and to learn how the child relates to their family and
the community. Also, the module will enable the students to implement public health interventions such as
immunisation schedules, child health and nutritrion. Furthermore, the student will gain mastery in history taking,
examination requesting of tests and diagnosis of common childhood illnesses including neonatology and
paediatric oncology.
Develop understanding of the sick child, abnormalities in growth and development, and how the child relates to their
family and the community. This will include studying many different diseases in the paediatric setting. Also learn the
principles of how to provide emergency support in the paediatric setting. Interaction with aspects of obstetric care
will be arranged to enable an understanding of how maternal health and delivery of the baby impacts on neonatal
health.
Module Content
Students will attend the paediatric wards and clerk patients, to develop an understanding of the normal and sick
child, identify abnormalities in growth and development, and to learn how the child relates to their family and the
community. The emphasis will be laid on clinical history and examination, making a correct diagnosis and formulating
a management plan for the common childhood illnesses. They will learn the principles of administering first aid during
medical emergency, make effective referral and follow-up of a baby or child who requires life-saving care.
40% Continuous assessment
60% Final Examination (1 X 3 hours written paper + 2 hours clinical + 30 minutes viva voce examination)
Module Title: Paediatrics II
Code: PDC3789
NQF level: 7
Notional hours: 160
NQF Credits: 16
Co/Pre-requisite: PDC3712
Semester offered 4th year
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to equip the student with theoretical and clinical knowledge and skills necessary to diagnose
and manage a sick child, abnormalities in growth and development, and how the child relates to their family and the
community. This will include studying many different diseases in the paediatric setting, including neonatology and
paediatric oncology. Also learn the principles of how to provide emergency support in the paediatric setting.
Interaction with aspects of obstetric care will be arranged to enable an understanding of how maternal health and
delivery of the baby impacts on neonatal health.
Module Content
The purpose of this module is to continue to develop an understanding of the normal and sick child, identify
abnormalities in growth and development, and to learn how the child relates to their family and the community.
Students will attend out-patients, and in-patient wards, including neonatal and oncology wards, attend XR meetings
and seminars. They will learn to take a full history and examination of children and come to a provisional diagnosis
with differentials. They will learn about the investigations needed to help make a diagnosis. They will formulate a
management plan for childhood illnesses. They will learn the principles of administering first aid during medical
emergency, make effective referral and follow-up of a baby or child who requires life-saving care.
The student will gain masterly in the following areas: (1)Knowledge of, and skills necessary for safe and efficient
paediatric practice, (2) Communicating and interacting effectively with patients, parents and carers, (3) Recognizing
a sick child, knowledge of diseases as they occur in children, and how to identify problems in development and health
of the child, by problem solving and clinical reasoning, (4) Neonatal care, both normal and abnormal, (5) Recognizing
the impact of childhood illness within the family, including ethical issues, (6) Self-reflection on his/her own practice, (7)
The principles of dealing with medical emergencies, make effective referral and follow-up of a baby or child who
requires life-saving care.
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60% Examination (1 X 3 hours written paper + 2 hours clinical + 30 minutes viva voce `
examination)
Module Title: Paediatrics III
Code PDC3880
NQF level: 8
Notional hours: 200
NQF Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: PDC 3789
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to continue to improve the knowledge base and to enable the student to gain masterly in
clinical skills necessary for managing a healthy child and sick child, identify abnormalities in growth and development,
and to learn how the child relates to their family and the community. The emphasis will be laid on history and
examination of a child, making a correct diagnosis and formulating a management plan for the common childhood
illnesses including neonatology and paediatric oncology; identifying and arranging appropriate investigations and
interpreting these to help formulate an appropriate management plan. Students will also learn the principles of
providing emergency support in the paediatric setting; interaction with aspects of obstetric care especially as it relates
to how maternal health and delivery impacts on the health of the neonate.
Module Content
The student will continue to develop an understanding of the normal and sick child, identify abnormalities in growth
and development, and to learn how the child relates to their family and the community. Students will attend out-
patients, and in-patient wards, including neonatal and oncology wards, attend XR meetings and seminars. They will
spend 5 weeks in Windhoek and 5 weeks in the Northern Campus. They will learn to take a full history and examination
of children and come to a provisional diagnosis with differentials. They will learn about the investigations needed to
help make a diagnosis. They will formulate a management plan for childhood illnesses, and follow up patients during
and after their hospital admission. They will also learn to manage children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. They
will learn the principles of administering first aid during medical emergency, make effective referral and follow-up of
a baby or child who requires life-saving care.
Assessment
60% Examination (1 X 3 hours written paper + 2 hours clinical + 30 minutes viva voce examination)
Module Title: Paediatrics IV
Code PDC3890
NQF level: 8
Notional hours: 200
NQF Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: PDC3880
Module Aims
The module aims at providing the student to gain masterly in the care of sick children from birth, in the neonatal period
throughout childhood to and puberty. This is done in as a structured and skills development-oriented apprenticeship.
The main aim is to facilitate the development of evidence-based practice of medicine, clinical reasoning and
masterly of essential skills that will allow them to become competent medical interns.
Module content
The student interns will spend ten (5) weeks in the various units of the Paediatric of the Teaching Hospitals. They will be
required to attend daily ward rounds and all academic meetings including periodic mortality statistics meetings.
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Clinical supervision will be provided by both hospital staff and UNAM SOM academic staff. The student interns will
have encountered many medical conditions in the preceding years. They should be, at this point, able to recognize
the normal child and his/her development and to manage many of the common paediatric conditions in Namibia,
including the following: Anaphylaxis, asthma, eczema; Malnutrition, marasmus and kwashiorkor; acute and chronic
infections; Gastro-enteritis, dehydration; Upper respiratory infections, otitis media, rhinitis, sore throat; Lower respiratory
infections, bronchiolitis, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia; Meningitis and meningococcal septicemia; Renal diseases
including nephrotic syndrome and acute nephritis; Febrile convulsions, epilepsy; anaemia and bleeding disorders;
nappy rash; Diabetes mellitus; Do syndrome and other chromosome disorders; Understand the investigation and
management of the above conditions, fluid and electrolyte therapy and paediatric prescribing; and common
neonatal disorders such as prematurity, neonatal sepsis and neonatal jaundice; Viral exanthema; congenital
infections; Immunodeficiency; Coeliac disease; congenital heart disease; neural tube defects; Dysmorphic syndrome;
inborn errors of metabolism; congenital hip dysplasia; Septic arthritis; transient synovitis; juvenile rheumatoid arthritis;
disease; gastrointestinal reflux; inflammatory bowel disease; disease; intussusception; pyloric
stenosis; Henoch-Schonlein purpura; idiopathic thrombocytopaenia purpura; Sickle cell disease and other blood
disorders, thalassaemia and acute leukemia; solid paediatric tumors; vesico-ureteric reflux; accidental poisoning;
Munchausen by proxy; autism; attempted suicide; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; and eating disorders.
Continuous assessment: 40%
End of year examination: 60%
Module Title: Psychiatry I
Code: PCT3711
NQF: 8
Notional hours: 2 hours
Credits: 8
Pre-requisite: ITM3789I and PDC3789
Semester offered 4th year semester 1
Module Aim
This module aims at equipping the student with knowledge, skills and techniques for diagnosing and managing
patients presenting with different psychiatric disorders. Student are assisted to integrate prior learning in the areas of
neuro-anatomy, neuro-physiology, developmental psychology, neuropharmacology, internal medicine and
paediatrics to recognize and explain the manifestation of psychiatric disorders, the diagnostic process and the
general principles of disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. This is done through a combination of
approaches of teaching and learning including didactic lectures and apprenticeship.
Module Content
Topics: Diagnoses of patients with mental/psychiatric disorders, neuropsychiatry, behavioural neurology and
psychopharmacology; application of medical and psychopathological knowledge and procedural skills to collect
and interpret data, make appropriate clinical decisions; carry out diagnostic procedures using an appropriate
combination of biological, psychological and sociological methods, including up-to-date, ethical and cost-effective
clinical practice and effective communication with patients, other health care providers and the community;
psychiatrist as communicator, collaborator, health advocate, manager, scholar and professional; theories of
personality and psychopathology; examination of the psychiatric patient; classification of mental/psychiatric
disorders; close connections with neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology, internal medicine, general
pharmacology, psychopharmacology and gross and functional anatomy of the brain (including neuro-imaging) as
tools for making psychiatric diagnoses; psycho-pathology.
Module Title: Psychiatry II
Code: PCT3880
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NQF: 8
Notional hours: 200
Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: PCT3711
Module Aim
The aim of this module is to students to gain masterly of the principles underpinning the range of psychotherapies used
to manage mental health patients and central theories in psychiatry as a branch of medicine. Students achieve this
though didactic lectures, clinical apprenticeship and shadowing of health professionals.
Module Content
Topics: Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, behaviour therapy, group psychotherapy, combined
individual and group psychotherapy, family and couple therapy, cognitive therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and
brief psychotherapy; Eriksonian clinical theory and psychiatric treatment, evaluation of psychotherapy), combined
psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, biological therapies, and principles to electroconvulsive therapy and
neurosurgical treatments, with applications to special populations such as Primary Health Care settings; psychiatric
emergencies; adult and child in- and outpatient psychiatry; geriatric psychiatry; hospice and palliative care; and
community psychiatry (including rural settings). Special topics include: consultation liaison psychiatry, adult
ambulatory services, substance abuse and addiction services, prevention and public awareness services; and legal
and ethical issues in Psychiatry.
Module Title: Psychiatry III
Code: PCT3890
NQF: 8
Notional hours: 200
Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: PCT3880
Module Aim
The aim of this module is to effectively prepare the student to manage common psychiatric conditions in Namibia.
Students learn in a clinical setting to take care of children, elderly, and forensic psychiatric patients. In this module
student learn how to take a comprehensive history; carry out mental state examination; make a psychiatric
formulation, differential diagnosis; make a multiaxial formulation and manage a patient according to the
biopsychosocial approach.
Module Content
Cumulatively, students master the following competencies: Assessment of patients with different psychiatric disorders;
Management of psychiatric disorders; Handling of aggressive patient; Assessment of patients with suicidal/homicidal
behaviour; Management of substance withdrawal; Ethics and the law; Counselling and crisis intervention; Family
interventions; Pharmacological and other treatments in psychiatry; Management of psychiatric emergencies
Continuous Assessment 40%
Module Title: Surgery I
Code: SUR3710
NQF: 7
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Notional hours: 200
Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: ATM3611, PLG3512
Semester offered 3rd year
Module aims
This module aims at enabling students to master the principles and practice of general surgery and develop skills
necessary to effectively practice the art and science of surgery. Students learn through didactic lectures and other
modalities of active participation in learning including case based learning and clinical apprenticeship. Students are
also assisted to learn and master technical skills by performing diagnostic and selected surgical procedures under
supervision.
Module Content
The course will concentrate on the core general surgery content areas including with emphasis is on eliciting clinical
signs and symptoms; history of surgery; ethics, confidentiality, Supportive care; history taking and physical examination
in cases of pain, lump, ulcer, sinus, fistula; principles of Disinfection and Sterilization; Wounds, Wound healing and
complications; Infections of Surgical importance, specifically, microbial infections in surgery, Mycotic infections of
surgical importance, Infections by Nematodes and Trematodes; HIV/AIDS and a surgical patient; Skin and
Subcutaneous tissues specifically Ulcers, sinuses, fistulae, Mole and melanoma, papilloma and wart, carcinoma,
lipoma, fibroma, lymph node, cyst, bursa, etc; Principles of fluid and electrolyte therapy & Acid Base Disturbance;
Introduction to the Management of Multiple injured patient. Penetrating and non-penetrating injury; Shock; Use of
blood & blood products. Normal & Abnormal Haemostasis; Metabolic response to trauma; Nutrition in Surgery; Burns
and scalds; Abdominal wall & abdomen focusing on history taking and examination of a patient with gastrointestinal
complaints, Herniae, umbilicus, abdominal wall abnormalities, Technique of abdominal examination, Definition and
Causes and signs of an acute abdomen, causes of abdominal distension and causes of abdominal mass; Rectum
and anal canal specifically the symptoms of anorectal disease, technique of anorectal examination, conditions
presenting with anal pain, conditions presenting with anal bleeding, conditions presenting with anal mass and Pruritus
ani; Breast inclducing benign conditions, malignant conditions, axillary examination; Neck examination with focus on
thyroid, midline masses and non-midline masses; vascular examination of arteries, veins and lymphatic; palliative care
in surgery based on W H O definition of Palliative Care, Quality of Life, Pain assessment & management, total pain
concept, distress thermometer & Psycho-social support and spiritual support; examination of the face especially
general facial appearance, eyes and orbit, mouth, salivary glands.
Continuous assessment 40%

Examination 60% (1x3 hours written paper + OSCE)
Module Title: Surgery II
Code: SUR3780
NQF: 7
Notional hours: 200
Credits: 20
Pre-requisite: SUR3710
Module aim
This modules aims at equipping the student with the basic knowledge and skills for managing common or live
threatening medical conditions in the sub-specialties of urology, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, trauma and
orthopaedics. Students learn in a structured environment that integrates didactic lectures and clinical apprenticeship.
Students also learn by performing selected first line procedures under the supervision of a quailed medical practitioner
or quailed health professional.
Module Content
The course will cover the core areas for the non-specialist medical practitioner including: Orthopaedics: the
assessment of the musculoskeletal system; an approach to x-rays & other diagnostic imaging; fracture healing &
complications; principals of operative treatment; bone & joint infections; skeletal Tuberculosis; osteoarthritis, gout and
other joint pain; rheumatic disorders; bone tumours; Metabolic bone disease, osteonecrosis & osteochondritis; genetic
disorders, dysplasia & malformations; neuromuscular disorders; an introduction to ATLS and assessment of the injured
patient; general principals of fractures & dislocations; management of wounds & soft tissue including GSW's; brachial
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Plexus & peripheral nerve injuries; amputation & rehabilitation; acute pyogenic bone & joint infections in children;
fractures & joint injuries in children; the child's hip; deformities of legs & feet in children; limb length inequalities
Urology: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH); cancer prostate; urinary tract imaging; renal trauma; ureteric trauma;
bladder trauma; urethral trauma; external genital trauma; urinary tract infection (uti); urolithiasis; cancer kidney;
cancer bladder; cancer testis; dd of scrotal swelling; male infertility
otorhinolaryngology: introduction to otorhinolaryngology; applied anatomy & physiology of the external ear; external
ear conditions; clinical examination of the ear; applied anatomy & physiology of the middle ear cleft; applied
anatomy & physiology of the inner ear; hearing loss; balance disturbances; facial nerve and audiometry; applied
anatomy & physiology nose, paranasal sinuses and nasopharynx; applied immunology/allergology for ent (part i);
specific conditions of the nose, paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx; applied anatomy & physiology of the mouth and
pharynx (oro and laryngo pharynx); obstructive sleep apnoea, applied anatomy and physiology of the larynx and
trachea; specific conditions of the larynx and trachea; HIV and otorhinolaryngology; speech disorders.
Ophthalmology
Disorders of the lid; disorders of the lacrimal apparatus; conjunctivitis & ophthalmia; neonatorum; trachoma & other
chronic conjunctivitis; keratitis and corneal ulcers; corneal ulcer; scleritis & episcleritis; refractive errors & method of
correction; presbyopia; accommodation convergence; congenital cataract; senile cataract; metabolic &
complicated cataract; primary angle closure glaucoma; congenital glaucoma; primary open angle glaucoma;
secondary glaucomas; anterior uveitis; posterior uveitis; blindness prevalence, prevention & rehabilitation;
retinopathies, hypertensive, toxaemia and pregnancy, diabetic retinopathy; retinal detachment, types,
symptomsand pre-disposing
Retinoblastoma and other ocular neoplasms; binocular vision amblyopia & concomitant
Optic nerve lesions; ocular emergencies (traumatic) and non-traumatic); minor ophthalmic surgery; and general
principles of intra ocular

Examination 60% (1x3 written paper + OSCE)
Module Title: Surgery III
Code: SUR3880
NQF: 8
Notional hours: 400
Credits: 40
Pre-requisite: SUR3780
Module Aim
The aim of the module is to enable the student master the principles and practice of surgery through didactic
instructions and hands-on training. The students also learn though carrying out technical procedures under supervision
of a qualified health professional. Further the modules equip the students with the knowledge and skills of prescribing
appropriate medicines, the practice of, and administration of safe anaesthesia.
Module Content
The course will cover the specific topics of pain & pain management; surgical nutrition; wound healing; metabolic
response to trauma; Infections of surgical importance; disorders of the appendix; burns & scalds; disorders of the biliary
tree; liver disorders of surgical importance; non-malignant thyroid disorders; oesophageal disorders; fluid & electrolyte
disorders in surgery; pancreatitis; head injury; thoracic trauma; malignant thyroid disorders; stomach & duodenum;
the small bowel; non-malignant large bowel disorders; peritonitis & principles of management; malignant large bowel
disorders; breast disorders; breast cancers; arterial disease; aneurysmal disease; venous disease & vte; the paediatric
surgical patient; paediatric trauma; common paediatric surgical emergencies; common paediatric solid tumours;
thoracic malignancies; abdominal trauma; investigation & management of postoperative jaundice; principles of
palliative care in surgical practice; palliative care: spiritual support; investigation & management of postoperative
pyrexia; haemorrhoids & anal mass; peri-anal sepsis; principles of safe; surgery: who checklist; the spleen & lymphatic
disorders.

Module Title: Surgery IV
Code: SUR3890
NQF: 8
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Notional hours: 400
Credits: 40
Pre-requisite: SUR3780 and SUR3880
Module Description
The aim of the module is to prepare each student for the surgical challenges of Namibia and the region as a medical
intern and subsequently medical officer. The student will be groomed in the practice of the art, science, and principles
of surgery including the surgical subspecialties of Orthopaedics and trauma, Ophthalmology, neurosurgery, Urology
and Otorhinolaryngology.
Module Content
Areas to be covered include: review of eliciting symptoms and signs in surgery as well as evidence-based clinical
decision making; surgical biology, with specific emphasis on wound healing, blood and blood products, anaemia,
haemostasis, surgical pathology, shock, hypovolaemia and blood transfusion, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, surgical
infection and basic surgical skills; perioperative care: focusing on preoperative preparation, nutrition and fluid therapy,
WHO surgical safety checklist, postoperative care and analgesia in the perioperative period, surgical nutrition; trauma
and the injured patient: specifically the assessment of the injured patient, ABCDE of trauma, pathophysiology and
management of head injury & spine injury, soft-tissue injuries of the neck, chest trauma, abdominal and pelvic injuries,
vascular trauma and compartment syndrome, burns and principles of skin grafting, bites and stings; priority surgical
disorders: of the skin and soft tissues including perianal & perineal sepsis, abdominal wall hernias, oesophageal
disorders, stomach and duodenum, acute abdomen, small bowel, colon and rectum, breast and endocrine surgery,
liver, gallbladder and pancreas, infections and infestations of surgical importance; common paediatric surgical
disorders; principles of palliative care in surgery: being a member of a health team; and ethics and medico legal
issues; patient consultation; patient discharge and follow-up.

PROGRAMME
Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management) 15MANA
Purpose and Rationale of the Qualification
The purpose of the MMed in Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management is to equip Medical Practitioners
with appropriate knowledge and clinical skill for safe, effective administration of anaesthesia, adequate control of
pain and optimal provision of critical care services as specialist Anaesthesiologists.
The rationale of this qualification emanates from the paucity of qualified Anaesthesiologists in most hospitals in
Namibia resulting in unmet surgical and anaesthetic service.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services is unsuccessfully trying to recruit Anaesthesiologists beyond the borders
of Namibia. Currently, there is no in-country training of Anaesthesiologists to improve the number of specialists in
this field.
In Namibia, one of the pillars of the Harambee Prosperity Plan is the reduction of Maternal and Infant mortality
rates. The University of Namibia would contribute enormously to this aspect of the plan by training this cadre of
anaesthesiologists.
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Exit Outcomes
Holders of this qualification will be able to:
• Demonstrate analytical, interpretational, scientific writing, problem solving, managerial, planning,
integration, and evaluation and presentation skills.
• Exhibit and apply in clinical practice the knowledge required of a Specialist Anaesthesiologist.
• Exhibit and practice clinically the skills required of a Specialist Anaesthesiologist in an Intensive Therapy
Unit.
• Exhibit and practice the application of the attitudes and competences required of a professional
Anaesthesiologist (including organizational, management and leadership skills as well as applying
strategies for health promotion, prevention of ill-health and co-morbidities).
• Practice regional, local and general anaesthesia in complex situations
• Teach, train and supervise trainees in Anaesthesiology.
• Appraise clinical research critically and conduct clinical audits/high impact research.
CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION

• Prospective students must be in possession of a level 8 UNAM MBChB degree or equivalent from any other
accredited institution with an average mark of at least 60% and must have completed 30 months of clinical
practice that must include at least 24 months in a recognised supervised internship programme.
• A prospective student must be registered with the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) as a
Medical Practitioner.
• Prospective students whose medical education was not in English shall provide proof of proficiency in spoken
and written English e.g. TOEFL (≥75) or IELTS academic version only (overall score of at least 7.5), not more
than 2 years old at the time of application.
• Successful completion of the UNAM Level 8 Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesiology and registration with
Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) and employment by the Ministry of Health & Social Services
of Namibia (MoHSS) or supernumerary employment with the MoHSS, will be an advantage.
All prospective students will be interviewed by the Postgraduate Admissions Committee of the School of
Medicine. (Proof of practice in Anaesthetic unit/department for at least six months will be desirable).
MODE OF DELIVERY
The MMed (Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management) is a full-time programme with a modern integrated
spiral curriculum. This competency-based programme will combine intensive teaching blocks with simulations, clinical
training, webinars and research. Furthermore, intensive Anaesthesiology (coupled with Surgery) camps will provide
opportunities for students to collect the required number of cases, while it will simultaneously assist the Ministry of Health
and Social Services to alleviate the pressing needs in the field.
Teaching will take place at designated teaching hospitals and the Health Sciences Campus of the University of
Namibia.
The delivery is mostly based on adult learning principles with training spread over a period of 48 months. Modules are
staggered with each module providing the basis for the next module. While students will be allowed to start with the
subsequent module without having passed the previous one, the module must be passed before the student will be
allowed to take the examination of the subsequent module. Students must pass the first integrated Part I examination
before embarking on the second 24-month training period.
By definition, a spiral curriculum is a flexible model where the exact length of each individual module will be
determined by the availability of cases and training opportunities. A particular module may thus span more than one
calendar year.
DURATION OF STUDY
The programme cannot be completed in less than 4 years. The maximum duration of the programme is 5 years.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Being a competency-based programme, the final mark of each module will consist of continuous assessment (60%)
and a module examination (40%). Continuous assessment will include amongst others, an externally moderated
student portfolio, case logbooks and tests.
A minimum continuous assessment mark of 50% will be required to qualify for each module examination. In addition,
all previous modules must be passed before the student is allowed to take the modular examination in any given
module.
For all modules, a pass mark of 50%, as well as a subminimum mark of 50% for the module examination is required.
Students will qualify for a supplementary if they fail the module examination irrespective of their mark in this
examination.
Two integrated Part I and Part II examinations will take place the first after completion of the first seven modules, and
the second after completion of all the modules.
A minimum mark of 50% is required to pass these final integrated Part I and Part II examinations consisting of theory
papers, and semi-structured oral assessments.
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Students who fail to obtain this pass mark, will be allowed to take a supplementary examination after a remedial
period of at least one month. The supplementary examination will consist of all components of the regular examination
irrespective of the performance of the student in the individual components during the regular examination.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR RE-ADMISSION INTO THE PROGRAM.

A student will not be readmitted into the MMed if she/he has failed the respective integrated Part I examinations on
third attempt (i.e. three attempts to clear both examinations, not three attempts per examination). Please note that
the regular examination and supplementary examination is considered as one attempt.
ADVANCEMENT AND PROGRESSION RULES

A student will advance to the second part (year 3) of the MMed only after passing the first integrated Part I
examination. Other than this, there is no year to year advancement as modules in a spiral curriculum are flexible and
could span a calendar year.
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CREDITS PER YEAR

Not applicable see above.
REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFICATION AWARD

The MMed (Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management) will be awarded to the candidate who has
successfully passed all the prescribed modules (694 credits), the two integrated examinations and has completed the
one year extended clinical training in anaesthesiology (both core and electives).
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
• The MMed (Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management) is registrable as a specialist qualification
by the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA).
• Graduates could work as specialists in various areas of anaesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine in
public and private hospitals
• Graduates will further be equipped to become researchers in the field of anaesthesiology, critical care and
pain medicine
• Graduates could be employed as academic staff in the School of Medicine
Summary Table for all Modules in the Programme:
Module code Module name NQF Credits Total hours Pre-requisite

level
PART 1
ASB5989 Basic Concepts and Practice of 9 45 450
Anaesthesiology
ASM5989 Anaesthesiology and Trauma 9 45 450
ASA5989 Comorbidities and Peri-operative Care 9 45 450
ASH5989 Pathophysiology and Higher Care of 9 45 450
Sick Patients
ASP5989 Anaesthesiology in Pregnancy 9 45 450
ASC5989 Anaesthesiology and the Child 9 45 450
ASH5999 Clinical Research Methodology 9 20 200 ASH5999
TOTAL PART 1 290
PART 2
UAE 5819 Academic Writing for Postgraduate 8 (24)* 4h/week
Students. for 14
weeks
ASA5999 Advanced Anaesthesiology I 9 60 600
ASP5999 Pain in Clinical practice. 9 60 600
ASM5999 Management in Anaesthesiology 9 40 400
Practice
ASC5999 Clinical Training Core 9 30 300
Advanced Anaesthesiology II 40 400
ASB5999 Clinical Training Elective 9 30 300
AST5999 MMed (Anaesthesiology) Thesis 9 120 1200
TOTAL PART 2 380
TOTAL 694
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Module Title: Basic Concepts and Practice of Anaesthesiology
Module Code ASB5989
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 450
Contact hours 70 hours of lectures in total + 380 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 12
week period)
NQF Credits 45
(Co-requisites) None
Prerequisite
Semester Offered N/A
Module Aims
Module aims to:
• provide an introduction to the basic principles of safe general and regional anaesthesia in overview.
• provide training in the management of basic anaesthetic emergencies
• provide a thorough understanding of the basic, key science concepts underlying anaesthesia
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
1. explain how to assess a patient pre-operatively for simple basic general and regional anaesthesia,
including airway assessment;
2. communicate their findings to a senior colleague;
3. describe and demonstrate rapid sequence induction;
4. describe, recall and critique the use of induction agents and analgesics;
5. describe and recall the neuromuscular junction and describe, recall and critique the use of muscle
relaxants;
6. manage anaesthetic emergencies and CPR;
7. discuss the physics of the anaesthetic machine and anaesthetic monitoring critically.
Module Content
The curriculum consists of the following topics: Pre-operative assessment, including scoring systems; Basic principles of
general anaesthesia, simple spontaneous anaesthesia; The principles underlying a Rapid Sequence Induction; Basic
airway management and choice of airway; Basic principles of regional anaesthesia, including anatomy, physiology
(including the autonomic nervous system), practice of regional anaesthesia and complications and their
management; Introduction to the pharmacology of core anaesthetic drugs: induction agents (propofol, thiopentone,
ketamine and etomidate) and analgesics (morphine, fentanyl and pethidine); Physiology and Pharmacology of the
Neuromuscular Junction and pharmacology of suxamethonium; Management of core anaesthetic emergencies and
adult CPR; Physics: The anaesthetics machine and checking the machine; anaesthetic monitoring.
Continuous assessment (60%):
Module Examination (40%): theory paper, OSCE and semi-structured oral assessment
Module Title: Anaesthesiology and Trauma

Module Code ASM5989
NQF Level
9
Notional Hours 450
Contact hours 70 hours of lectures in total + 380 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 12-
week period)
NQF Credits 45
Prerequisite
Module Aims
This module aims to:
• provide an understanding of the pathophysiology of trauma and emergency situations;
• enable students to apply their knowledge of trauma and emergent care safely and efficiently;
• provide an understanding of the requirements for safe patient transfer;
• enable students to understand the dynamics of team working and leadership.
Learning Outcomes/Specific Outcomes

1. discuss the pathophysiology of the conditions described in this module description critically;
2. manage the conditions described in this module professionally;
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3. explain the implications of these conditions for patients in trauma and emergency situations;
4. describe and implement strategies for the safe transfer of sick patients;
5. describe and discuss the dynamics of team working and leadership and implement their learning in
simulated and real clinical situations.
Module Content
The curriculum consists of the following topics: Definitions of urgency of surgery; Trauma pathophysiology and trauma
anaesthesiology; Pathophysiology of haemorrhage and dehydration; Principles of pre-operative resuscitation; Signs
of an adequately resuscitated patient including clinical, cardiovascular and biochemical; Massive blood transfusion;
Gastric emptying; Principles of emergency anaesthesiology including advanced monitoring; Safe transfer of patients
between sites; Physics of advanced monitoring; Team dynamics and leadership models
Module Title: Comorbidities and Peri-operative Care

Module Code ASA5989
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 450
week period)
NQF Credits 45
Prerequisite
Module Aims

• provide an understanding of the pathophysiology of comorbidities frequently encountered peri-
operatively;
• enable students to understand the implications of comorbidities for patients and their care;
• acquaint trainees with knowledge of strategies to promote wellness and lifestyle modification to prevent
ill health and co-morbidities
• enable students to apply their knowledge to manage these clinical situations safely and efficiently;
• provide an understanding of scoring systems in Anaesthesia and their use in communicating patient
morbidity to clinical colleagues.

1. describe the pathophysiology of the conditions described in the module description critically;
2. describe the implications of these condition for patients with associated comorbidities critically
3. develop and participate in managing interventions for promoting and maintaining health, preventing
condition
4. manage patients with comorbidities safely
Module Content
The module to consist of: pathophysiology, general clinical management and clinical perioperative management of
the following conditions diabetes and other core endocrine conditions, epilepsy, respiratory disease, heart disease,
infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS, haematological derangements and disease, as well as neurological conditions;
scoring systems and their use in patients with significant comorbidities
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Module Title: Pathophysiology and Higher Care of Sick Patients

Module Code ASH5989
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 450
Contact hours 70 hours of lectures in total + 380 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 12
week period)
NQF Credits 45
Prerequisite
Module Aims

• provide an understanding of the altered physiology and pharmacology of the critically ill patient with
special reference to severe infections, sepsis, acute respiratory failure and trauma;
• enable students to intervene to stabilise an acutely unwell patient and support patients developing multi-
organ failure.

1. explain phenomena in the altered physiology and pharmacology of patients with significant acute illness
involving the respiratory, cardiovascular and renal systems and sepsis associated with acute severe
infections.
2. manage patients with significant acute illnesses and / or co-existing altered physiology and
pharmacology;
3. manage patient ventilation and respiratory support;
4. manage sedation for critically ill patients;
5. manage fluid management and renal support;
6. use inotropes for cardiovascular support in the critically ill.
Module Content
The curriculum will consist of the following: Respiratory System (Respiratory failure, causes and management; Principles
of ventilation of the ill patient; Core topics in respiratory physiology);
Cardiovascular System (Cardiovascular collapse, causes and management; Core topics in cardiovascular
physiology); Sepsis (the septic patient: definition, causes, management and physiology);
Renal System (Fluid Management; renal failure and support; principles of pharmacology and physiology); Supporting
the critically ill patient (pharmacology of drugs used in long term sedation); Physics (importance of humidity and
principles and methods of humidification in short- and long-term patient ventilation)
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PART B: MODULE DESCRIPTOR:
Module Title: Anaesthesiology in Pregnancy
Module Code ASP5989
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 450
Contact hours 70 hours of lectures in total + 380 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 12-week
period)
NQF Credits 45
Prerequisite
Module Aims
•
• develop an understanding of the differences between the pregnant and non-pregnant patient and their
implications for anaesthesiology;
• introduce the basic principles of safe general and regional anaesthesia for the pregnant patient;
• develop an understanding of obstetric comorbidities and obstetric emergencies such as prolonged/obstructed
labour, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, haemorrhages, etc and their implications for anaesthesiology;
• develop an understanding into acute pain management for labouring parturients and postoperative delivery;
•

On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:
1. describe the different ways of maintaining the airway in a range of patients and provide a critique to
justify their choice;
2. describe the anatomy and physiology of the pregnant patient;
3. describe, and justify how anaesthetic interventions, both general anaesthesia and regional [spinal,
epidural and combined spinal epidural] anaesthesia, in the pregnant patient are different from the non-
pregnant patient;
4. manage obstetric and anaesthetic emergencies and CPR in the pregnant patient;
5. manage labour pains in parturient using non-pharmacological, pharmacological and various neuraxial
interventions such as spinal, epidural and combined spinal epidurals;
6. provide professional care in anaesthesiology and pain management as a member of health team
7. discuss the core physical concepts important to anaesthesiology critically.
Module Content
The module consists of the following topics: Further principles of general anaesthesia, including spontaneous breathing
anaesthesia and inductive choice of airway; Pre-operative assessment of the pregnant patient; anatomy and
physiology of pregnancy; Rapid Sequence Induction for Caesarean Section; Principles of regional anaesthesia,
including anatomy, practice, complications relating to pregnancy; Anaesthetic drugs and their pharmacology in
pregnancy, including the pharmacology of drugs for gastric acid control; The Neuromuscular Junction and the use of
non-depolarising muscle relaxants ; Management of CPR in pregnancy and other emergencies of pregnancy
obstetric comorbidities and obstetric emergencies such as prolonged/obstructed labour, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia,
haemorrhages, etc and their implications for anaesthesiology; Physics: the physics of anaesthetics gases, pressure and
flow, pulse oximetry, blood pressure measurement, the ECG and gas analysis.
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Module Title: Anaesthesiology and the Child
Module Code ASC5989
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 450
week period)
NQF Credits 45
Prerequisite
Module Aims
This module aims to provide an:
• understanding of the differences between the child (including neonates) and the adult and its
implications for anaesthesiology;
• enable students to learn how to carry out local anaesthetic blocks and manage pain relief in children
(including neonates);
• understanding of the management of emergencies in children (including neonates);
•

1. explain the differences in physiology and pharmacology between the child (including neonates) and
adult patient;
2. discuss and justify how general anaesthetic interventions in the child patient are different from the
adult patient;
3. manage fluids and analgesia in children (including neonates) effectively;
4. manage anaesthetic emergencies and CPR in children (including neonates;
5. recall and apply further physical concepts important to anaesthesia with respect to children
(including neonates).
Module Content
The module consists of the following topics (with a child defined as a person from birth to age 16 years): Principles of
general anaesthesia in children; Pre-operative assessment of children and scoring systems; anatomy and physiology
of children; Spontaneously breathing anaesthesia in children; Rapid Sequence Induction in children; Anaesthetic
drugs and their pharmacology in children; Fluid management in children; Analgesia and nerve blocks in children to
include necessary anatomy; Management of CPR and other emergencies in children; Physics: breathing systems and
their selection and clinical use in adults and children
The student will resuscitate, anaesthetise and provide emergency care to children (including neonates) as they
present in routine practice irrespective of age, but with appropriate senior support as necessary. These will be entered
into the log book and represent a record demonstrating increasing competency. However, the student will not be
considered proficient enough to be considered a specialist paediatric anaesthetist.
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Module Title: Clinical Research Methodology
Module Code ASH5999
NQF Level 9
Notional hours 200
Contact hours 200 hours of integrated lectures and practicals
NQF Credits 20
Pre-requisites None
Semester Offered NA
Module aims to: The aim of this module is to prepare students to be able to critically appraise research papers,
conduct research as an individual or member of a research team. It will also develop student skills in using a
methodical approach to develop research ideas and bring them to fruition. Furthermore, it will provide students
with bio-statistical skills and application of methodologies related to research in Anesthesiology.
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
• apply the principles behind quality, useful, and robust research;
• apply appropriate research methodologies and statistical tools for data analysis;
• carry out research leading to evidence that may influence further research and future healthcare
practice;
• design and conduct autonomously and independently, an audit using appropriate method which draws
on relevant evidence from the medical literature;
• present research findings in a format suitable for publication.
Module Content
This module consists of the following topics: Research design; project planning, Proposal writing; problem analysis;
Research questions formulation; quantitative and qualitative Bio statistical methods of data analysis in
Anaesthesiology; research ethical responsibilities.
Continuous assessment 50%, Examination 50% (1 x 3-hour paper)
Module Title: Advanced Anaesthesiology I

Module Code ASA5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 600
week period)
NQF Credits 60
(Co-requisites) First integrated Part I examination
Prerequisite
Module Aims
• introduce the trainees to the challenges of neuroanaesthesia/neuroradiology and neurocritical care;
• introduce the trainee to the challenges of cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical care;
• provide students with an understanding and practice of paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia and
paediatric critical care.
•
and regional anaesthesiology.

1. describe and implement the various clinical demands of anaesthesia for neurosurgery, neuroradiology
and neurocritical care;
2. describe and implement the various clinical demands of cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic
critical care;
3. describe and implement the various clinical demands of paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia and
paediatric critical care;
4. explain and apply physical/scientific concepts important to anaesthesia with respect to general and
regional anaesthesia.
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Module Content
The module consists of the following topics: Anatomy, physiology and pharmacology relevant to neuroanaesthesia,
cardiothoracic anaesthesia and paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia, Anaesthesia for neurosurgery,
neuroradiology and neurocritical care; Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical care; Paediatric
(including neonatal) anaesthesia and paediatric critical care, principles of advanced airway management; Anatomy
and pathophysiology of the airway; Scoring systems; Managing the difficult airway, including difficult airway trolley,
failed intubation drill, specific airway rescue techniques; Regional anaesthesia other than spinals - Pharmacology of
local anaesthetics; Anatomy relevant to relevant regional blocks and performance of blocks including upper and
lower extremity blocks, trunk blocks, fascia iliaca, hernia blocks, caudal anaesthesia, penile block, local single nerve
blocks and eye blocks; introduction to epidural anaesthesia; Introduction to anaesthesia for surgical subspecialties -
Burns and plastics; Ear Nose and Throat; Ophthalmology;.
The trainees will be involved in the care of these complex cases under supervision and must keep logbook to
demonstrate exposure and increasing competency.
Module Title: Pain in Clinical Practice

Module Code ASP5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 600
week period)
NQF Credits 60
Prerequisite First integrated Part I examination
Module Aims
• provide an understanding to acute pain, its pathophysiology and management;
• introduce the pathophysiology and management of chronic pain
• understand symptom control in the management of pain.

1. describe the pathophysiology of acute pain;
2. describe simple, safe and effective strategies for the management of acute pain;
3. outline the pathophysiology of chronic pain
4. explain the relationship between acute and chronic pain and describe basic management of chronic
pain;
5. describe the side effects inherent in acute and chronic pain management and have simple basic
strategies for their management.
Module Content
The module consists of the following topics: Acute Pain (Anatomy of pain pathways; Patho-physiology of acute pain;
Acute pain assessment including pain scores; Principles of acute pain management including WHO ladder and
multimodal analgesia; Pharmacology of specific analgesics including side effects); Chronic Pain (Pathophysiology of
chronic pain; Chronic pain assessment; Principles of chronic pain management, including management in end of life
and palliative case); Symptom Control including Nausea and Vomiting (Side effects of pain management techniques;
Physiology of nausea and vomiting; Management of nausea and vomiting)
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Module Title: Management in Anaesthesiology Practice
Module Code ASP5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 400
week period)
NQF Credits 40
Module Aims
• inculcate the student as to their professional responsibility to ensure patient safety;
provide the student with a structure in which to operate with respect to patient safety;
• instil in the student the need for life-long learning and the concept of continuous professional
development;
• further provide the intellectual tools to enable lifelong academic learning and its application;
• provide a structure and insight to enable the student to effectively explore anaesthetic, intensive care
and pain academic literature.

1. describe and apply the principles of critical incident reporting, adverse incident management and
learning from errors;
2. explain how different people learn and teach and apply styles to different situations and its relevance to
personal professional development;
3. carry out a critical appraisal of a topic relevant to Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care or Pain Medicine.
Module Content
The module consists of the following topics: Principles of critical incident reporting, adverse incident management and
learning from errors; Critical incident reporting; Adverse incident management; Learning from errors; Critical appraisal
of anaesthesiology and critical care literature, continuing professional development (CPD) and further preparation
for academic writing/dissertation (Appraisal of literature; CPD and lifelong learning: learning and teaching styles;
Academic writing; Making the most of library facilities and e-learning)
Module Title: Clinical Training Core
Module Code ASC5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 300
Contact hours 300 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 5-month period)
NQF Credits 30
Module Aim:
The aim of this module is for the student to develop extensive case load in core anaesthesia cases.

1. manage anaesthesiology patients with confidence and expertly
Module Content
The module covers clinical exposure to core anaesthesiology cases
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Module Title: Advanced Anaesthesiology II
Module Code ASA5999
NQF Level ??9
Notional Hours 600
week period)
NQF Credits 60
(Co-requisites) First integrated Part I examination
Prerequisite
Module Aims
• further expose the trainees to the challenges of neuroanaesthesia/neuroradiology and neurocritical care;
• further expose the trainee to the challenges of cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical
care;
• further expose students to the practice of paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia and paediatric
critical care.

1. describe and implement the various clinical demands of anaesthesia for neurosurgery, neuroradiology
and neurocritical care;
2. describe and implement the various clinical demands of cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic
critical care;
3. describe and implement the various clinical demands of paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia and
4. recall and apply physical/scientific concepts important to anaesthesia with respect to general and
regional anaesthesia.
Module Content
The module consists of the following topics: Principles of advanced airway management; Anatomy and
pathophysiology of the airway; Scoring systems; Managing the difficult airway, including difficult airway trolley, failed
intubation drill, specific airway rescue techniques; Regional anaesthesia other than spinals - Pharmacology of local
anaesthetics; Anatomy relevant to relevant regional blocks and performance of blocks including upper and lower
extremity blocks, trunk blocks, fascia iliaca, hernia blocks, caudal anaesthesia, penile block, local single nerve blocks
and eye blocks; introduction to epidural anaesthesia; Introduction to anaesthesia for surgical subspecialties - Burns
and plastics; Ear Nose and Throat; Ophthalmology; Anaesthesia for neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neurocritical
care; Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical care; paediatric (including neonatal) anaesthesia and
The trainees will be involved in the care of these complex cases under supervision and must keep logbook to
demonstrate exposure and increasing competency. However, the student will only be considered proficient enough
as a generalist-specialist anaesthetist.
Module Title: Clinical Training Elective

Module Code ASB5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 300
Contact hours 300 hours of supervised clinical work (normally over a 5-month period)
NQF Credits 30
Module Aim:
The aim of this module is for the student to develop extensive case load in one or more subspecialties of
anaesthesiology.

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1. manage anaesthesiology patients in one or more subspecialties of anaesthesiology with confidence and
expertly
Module Content
The module covers clinical exposure to selected subspecialties of anaesthesiology as agreed between student and
trainer.
Module Title: MMed (Anaesthesiology) Thesis

Module Code AST5999
NQF Level 9
Notional Hours 1200
Contact hours 1200 hours of integrated learning
NQF Credits 120
Module Aim:
topic, formulate a well-structured proposal and conduct research elucidating significant results and conclusions
with relevant remarks in the background of succinct literature review of the subject.

1. carry out independent research in a relevant area
2. communicate research findings in a variety of ways
Module Content
Supervised research in a relevant area
Continuous assessment (100%): thesis (in accordance with UNAM post-graduate regulations)
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SCHOOL

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DEAN

Executive Dean Prof J Hall

Associate Dean School of Medicine Dr F Christians

Faculty Manager Mr A Fledersbacher

Campus Administrator Ms D Titus

Faculty Officer Ms F Mario

Administrative Officer/Secretary: Office of the ED Ms Y Shaanika

Administrative Officer/Secretary: School of Medicine Ms T Kadhila

Examination Officer Ms L Xoagus

Student Records Officer Mr M Nowaseb

Student Support Officer Mr A Ngwangwama

Administrative/Field Officer Ms R Reinhold

Security Officer Mr H Nakadiva

ICT Officer Mr A Shikongo

ICT Officer Mr S Shilongo

The key objectives of the School of Medicine are:

▪ To promote equity of access to health care services for all;

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OATH

All (students and faculty members):

DATE GENERAL DATES

10 Jan University Opens

18 Feb Block lectures end 4th year MBChB

25 Mar Clinical rotation ends 4th year MBChB

02 May Clinical rotation starts 5th year MBChB

03 Jun Regular Examinations end 2nd & 3rd MBChB

01 Jul Regular Examinations end 1st year MBChB

05 Aug Clinical rotation ends 4th year MBChB

01 Dec Moderation starts for MBChB

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN, BIOLOGICAL & TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

Head of Department: Prof Q Wessels

Lecturer: Dr RJ Kandando, HND (Manchester Polytechnic, UK), DipHE (Wolverhampton Polytechnic,

Lecturer Mr Nghoshi S, MSc in Applied Field Epidemiology (UNAM)

Lecturer: Dr Z Mkandla, PhD (Human Physiology) University of KwaZulu-Natal, MSc (Biomedical

Technician: Ms K Niiteta, BSc (Hons) Biochemistry & Chemistry, University of Namibia.

Assistant Technician: Mr J Lakanemo

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Head of Department: Dr. F Yimer

Lecturer & skills lab coordinator:

DEPARTMENT OF MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

Head of Department: Dr BJ Nggada

Lecturer: Dr BJ Nggada, Specialist obstetrician/gynaecologist: MBBS(Unimaid), Fellow West African

Lecturer: Dr LC Kimera, Specialized obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB Mbarara University of

Lecturer: Dr A T Msusa. Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBBS University of Malawi; Fellow of

Lecturer: Dr J Katumba, Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB Makerere University, MMed

Lecturer: Dr AF Muyotcha Specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist: MBChB (UZ) MMed (Obstetrics

DEPARTMENT OF SURGICAL SCIENCES

Senior Lecturer Dr C B Mbangtang (General Surgery). MBBS (University of Ibadan, Nigeria); DA

Senior Lecturer Dr E Fynn. MBChB (Ghana) DCH(SA), M. Med (Radiodiagnostics) FCRad(SA).

Senior Lecturer Dr. Onochie Nweze, MBBCh., FWACS (Specialist Anaesthesiologist).

Lecturer: Dr Dzvanga M T, Bachelor Degree in Surgery and Medicine, Postgraduate Diploma in

Coordinator Prof Rekewe A

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION

EXIT PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

Patient Care Competences

4. Evaluate the validity of laboratory/diagnostic tests;

5. Prescribe appropriate medications and other instructions safely