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University of the Free State UFS School of Biomedical Sciences
Quality improvements to our estates and clinical training platform capacity
In the last few years a number of quality enhancements to our estates and clinical training platform capacity has occurred:
- The School of Medicine was divided into three schools:
- Biomedical Sciences
- Clinical Medicine
- Pathology
- The development of state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities in the new James Moroka Building with extension of lecture theatres to accommodate big classrooms from 2018
- The new Muller Potgieter Building hosts the student administration teams, including the offices of the three heads of schools and the MB ChB Programme Director.
- A magnificent Clinical Simulation and Skills Unit that would not be out of place in any top ten medical school worldwide is now operational and used for student training,
- A brand new state-of-the-art anatomy building and dissection facilities were built during 2014 and opened for use during the 2015 academic year.
- New next generation GMO unit in Biomedical Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Clinical Medicine
The School of Biomedical Sciences comprises the following departments and Units:
- Animal Research Unit
- Basic Medical Sciences
- Biostatistics
- GMO Unit
- National Control Laboratory for Biological Products
- Clinical Simulation and Skills Unit
The student administration teams are responsible for
- Undergraduate Application and Selection according to our selection policy
- Postgraduate Applications
