The University of Cape Town's medical school offers a variety of educational, training and academic career options within the context of health care and research from clinical and public health to health and rehabilitation sciences.
UCT medical school was established in 1912 and was the first medical school in sub-Saharan Africa. They were also rated as one of the top 50 health sciences faculties worldwide (by Times Higher Education).
The medical school has 13 academic departments which feature undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Here are the courses available at the UCT Medical School:
- Undergraduate Programmes
- Postgraduate Diplomas
- Addictions Care
- Clinical Developmental Paediatrics
- Clinical Hepatology
- Clinical Paediatric Cardiology
- Clinical Paediatric Critical Care
- Clinical Paediatric Diabetes
- Clinical Paediatric Electrophysiology and Epilepsy
- Clinical Paediatric Emergency Care
- Clinical Paediatric Gastroenterology
- Clinical Paediatric Haematology/Oncology
- Clinical Paediatric Nephrology
- Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Clinical Paediatric Pulmonology
- Clinical Paediatric Rheumatology
- Community and General Paediatrics
- Community Eye Health
- Dermatology Nursing
- Disability Studies
- Family Medicine
- Health Economics
- Health Management
- Health Professional Education
- Healthcare Technology Management
- Interdisciplinary Pain Management
- Maternal & Child Health
- Nursing, in the following streams:
- Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Care
- Child Nursing
- Child Critical Care Nursing
- Nephrology Nursing
- Neuroscience Nursing
- Ophthalmic Nursing
- Diabetes Mellitus Nursing & Education
- Nursing Education
- Nursing Management
- Occupational Health
- Paediatric Radiology
- Palliative Medicine
- Pesticide Risk Management
- Psychotherapy
- TB-HIV Management
- Masters Degrees
- Master of Medicine, in the following specialities:
- Anaesthesia
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Dermatology
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Medical Genetics
- Medicine
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Nuclear Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Occupational Medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Paediatric Surgery
- Paediatrics
- Pathology (Anatomical)
- Pathology (Chemical)
- Pathology (Clinical)
- Pathology (Forensic)
- Pathology (Haematological)
- Pathology (Microbiological)
- Pathology (Virological)
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Public Health Medicine
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Master of Philosophy (by coursework & dissertation), in
- Addiction Psychiatry
- Biokinetics
- Biomedical Forensic Science
- Clinical Paediatric Surgery
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinical Research Administration
- Emergency Medicine
- Exercise & Sports Physiotherapy
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Health Innovation
- Intellectual Disability
- Liaison Psychiatry
- Maternal & Child Health
- Occupational Health
- Paediatric Forensic Pathology
- Paediatric Pathology
- Palliative Medicine
- Sport & Exercise Medicine
- Master of Philosophy (for subspeciality training) in the following areas:
- Advanced hepatology & Transplantation
- Allergology (adult & paediatric)
- Cardiology
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Clinical Haematology
- Critical Care
- Developmental Paediatrics
- Endocrinology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Gynaecological Oncology
- Infectious Disease & HIV Medicine
- Medical Gastroenterology
- Nephrology
- Neuropsychiatry
- Paediatric Cardiology
- Paediatric Child Health
- Paediatric Critical Care
- Paediatric Endocrinology
- Paediatric Gastroenterology
- Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- Paediatric Nephrology
- Paediatric Neurology
- Paediatric Oncology
- Paediatric Pulmonology
- Paediatric Rheumatology
- Pulmonology
- Reproductive Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Surgical Gastroenterology
- Trauma Surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- Master of Public Health in the following streams:
- General Public Health
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Health Economics
- Health Systems
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Master of Science in Audiology
- Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
- Master of Science in Medicine In Genetic Counselling
- Master of Science in Medicine
- Master of Science in Nursing
- Master of Science in Occupational Therapy
- Master of Science in Physiotherapy
- Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology
- Master’s in Nursing in Child Nursing
- Professional Master’s in Paediatric Neurosurgery
- Master of Medicine, in the following specialities:
- Honours Degrees
- Bachelor of Medical Science Honours, in the following disciplines:
- Applied Anatomy
- Bioinformatics
- Biokinetics
- Biological Anthropology
- Biomedical Science (Human Genetics)
- Biomedical Science (Forensic Genetics)
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Dietetics
- Exercise Science
- Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- Medical Biochemistry
- Medical Cell Biology
- Medical Physics
- Physiology
- Radiobiology
- Radiation Oncology
- Structural Biology
- Bachelor of Medical Science Honours, in the following disciplines:
- Doctorates
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctor of Medicine
- Doctor of Science in Medicine
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