Family Health Medical School(FHMS), the premier private Medical School has been granted the University status to run four-year graduate medical programmes and six- year undergraduate medical programmes.

 

The four-year graduate medical programme would run parallel to the existing Family Health Medical School programme affiliated to the University of Ghana and would admit first degree graduates of science and science-related backgrounds.

 

Professor Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, President of the school who announced this in a media interaction said the four-year programme would be run in phases.

 

The first phase of programme, he said would be one and half years made up of three semesters with integrated modular system, while the second phase would run with the school’s medical clinical programmes.

 

Apart from gaining the status of a University College, the Family Health School was already running the school of Nursing and Midwifery, Revision course for foreign trained medical doctors to write Medical and Dental Council Examinations, 24-hour private hospital among other training programmes.

 

Professor Kwawukume said the acquisition of the University status would empower them to step up training programmes in pharmacy, dermatology, laboratory sciences, nursing and other specialised programmes.

 

He said the programme which is beginning with 18 students had the capacity to admit up to 200 students and the management would increase the numbers gradually on annual basis.

 

The President of the school said apart from the mainstream courses in various departments of the school, management was also training other workers on first Aid management to enable them gain some skills to save others in times of need.

 

Ms Priscilla Boafo, An Administrative Secretary said the school had introduced an endowment fund to provide scholarships to brilliant but needy students and called on individuals and organisations to contribute to the fund to support more students.

 

She said apart from guiding and counselling they had been offering to people and students, they also had mentorship programmes that would motivate the students to achieve their future goals.

 

GNA