The MBBS Course is designed to train medical students to become ethically minded, committed and technically competent graduates viz. medical doctors who can effectively serve in different health sectors of the nation. The course starts with strengthening and adding up of knowledge and attitude acquired in basic education in adaptation to learning the basis of learning medical courses, followed by training for preclinical subjects which covers basic medical science subjects, public health subjects and legal medicine. Total professional and personal development programs as well as programs for medical ethics runs all along the medical student life. Successful students are forwarded to clinical years. Then one year compulsory internship program ensues. The whole course extends over seven years.
First M.B., B.S. | 1 year |
Second M.B., B.S. | 1½ year |
Third M.B., B.S. | 1 year |
Final M.B., B.S. Part I | 1 year |
Final M.B., B.S. Part II | 1½ year |
House Officer training | 1 year |
Total | 7 years |
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OUTLINE:
FIRST YEAR
Botany
Zoology
English
Myanmar
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
Behavior Sciences
SECOND YEAR
Anatomy
Physiology
Biochemistry
THIRD YEAR
General Pathology and Haematology
Microbiology
Pharmacology
Students are also posted for 18 weeks each to medical and surgical wards for clinical training.
FINAL PART I
Forensic Medicine
Preventive and Social Medicine (With three weeks residential field training in the rural area)
Systemic Pathology
Students attend lectures & clinics in Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and are posted to the teaching hospitals, including Urban Health facilities as part of Preventive and Social Medicine teaching.
FINAL PART II
Paediatrics
Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Surgery
Students study allied specialties viz. eye, ear, nose & throat diseases, urology, neurology, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, orthopaedics and traumatology, skin diseases, mental health, oromaxillo-facial surgery, radiology, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, anaesthesiology, thoracic surgery, and paediatric surgery. Family Medicine and Medical Ethics are incorporated as relevant in the M.B., B.S. course.
HOUSE OFFICER TRAINING
All students, after successful completion of Final Part II examination, are continued to train hands-on for period of one year as house officers in the Teaching Hospitals in Yangon and the State and Division Hospitals. Training Periods are as following: –
Paediatrics 2½ months
Community Medicine 2 weeks
Medicine (including Psychiatry) 3 months
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 3 months
Surgery 3 months
Only after satisfactory completion of House- officer training MBBS Degree is conferred to the students. M.B., B.S. degree is conferred only after satisfactory completion of House Officer training.