5.5 Years Doctor of Medicine Program

Pre-Medical Program

The Pre-Medical program is taught at TAU campus in Georgetown Guyana. The students entering TAU's Pre-Medical program directly from secondary school will require to complete a minimum of 5.5 years at TAU to attain their MD degree. Students will generally attend three consecutive semesters per year. The year-round format reduces the length of time required when compared to other programs. Students may choose to take a term off between the programs and again in preparation for the Step 1 board exam, with faculty approval.

Pre-Clinical Program

The Pre-clinical is taught at TAU campus in Georgetown Guyana. The curriculum has been organized and designed to support the mission of training physicians to meet the health care needs of all sections of societies including the rural and other underserved areas, by insuring a superior medical education, by developing independent, life-long learning skills and by continual practice in the application of medical knowledge to patient problems. The curriculum in the first two years is designed to facilitate the students' acquisition of fundamental knowledge and skills as well as to develop attitudes appropriate to the practice of community responsive medicine. The Pre-Clinical program encompasses the first five semesters of the Medicine program.. Teaching occurs in the form of lectures, lab courses, and seminars. The core subjects are those comprising the classical disciplines of preclinical medicine (physiology, biochemistry, and anatomy).

Salient Feature of Pre-Clinical Program:

During the Pre Clinical Phase the Student will be Put the Community Medicine-Based Experience (CM-BE) component of Patient Centred Care (PCC) in Year 1 & Year 2. Pre Clinical Semester 5 has a Credit based Community Medicine Programs. This longitudinal experience allows junior medical students to spend a number of half-days with a community Family Physicians in the Country. It provides an opportunity to consolidate the patient interaction skills learned in the classroom with real-life clinical experiences, as well as introducing students to a family physician role-model. This will also be supported by Free & Sponsored medical camps that shall benefit the community and enhance the learning of the students.

Clinical program : 80 weeks

Students must have successfully completed all pre-clinical courses prior to beginning clerkships. The required clerkship curriculum consists of a total of 80 weeks of Clinical rotations { 5 semesters} For more information about the clerkship curriculum, and other requirements during the clinical years, please refer to information at the links below. Clinical Rotations will be done in Our Affiliated Hospital in Guyana- The Georgetown Hospital. Those who want to do Rotations in Asia can do so in Philippines. Apart from this students can choose to do 6 to 12 weeks of Elective training in European Destinations, India, Pakistan, China etc.

Eligibility

1. Students from HIGH school Equivalent to 12 years of Education or Equivalent
2. Student with NON - Pre medical College Credits
Students who have earned 90 college level credit hours from undergraduate institutions or concurrently during the completion of secondary school are encouraged to apply to the 4 years MD Medicine Program, where the student will join the program at Pre-Clinical phase since those science based 90 college level credit hours will be considered in the admissions process.

Curriculum

Pre Medical Curriculum

 

 

Pre Clinical Curriculum

 

Subject	Theory	Seminar	Lab
Semester 1
Gross Anatomy	4		6
Histology, Cell and Molecular Biology	4		3
Medical Embryology	3		1
Biostatics,  Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine	3
Evidence Based Medicine & Research	1
Medical Terminology	2
Semester 2
Neuroscience	5
Bio Chemistry	5		2
Medical Physiology	6		3
Genetics	2
Semester 3
Pathology I	6		3
Behavioural Sciences { Psychology}	3
Medical Ethics	2
Medical Microbiology	4		2
Immunology	3		2
History taking & physical Exam	4		4
Semester 4
Pathology II	6		4
Pharmacology	6		2
Toxicology & Forensic	6
Community Medicine	6
Introduction to Clinical medicine	8
Medical Board review	12

Clinical Curriculum

Clinical Rotations; The clinical rotations are for 80 weeks. The clinical rotations comprises of Core rotations that has to be done compulsorily and then the Electives which the student can choose to do.

Subjects	Credit Hours
Internal Medicine	12 weeks
Surgery	12 weeks
Obstetrics/Gynaecology	6 weeks
Paediatrics	6 weeks
Family Medicine	6 weeks
Psychiatry	6 weeks