Medical School has no curriculum ? Dean

In a front page story, the Ghanaian Chronicle reports that the School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Development Studies at Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, has no curriculum.

The students have therefore warned that they would graduate as half-baked doctors and nutritionists if the government does not intervene.

The Dean of the School, Prof. Nii Amon-Kotei, who is quoted as confirming this said "there is only a report of a committee which cannot be called a curriculum.

The Chronicle says within three years of the inception of the School, the courses have changed twice. The students, the paper says, claimed that the Dean had told them verbally on several occasions that the School has no curriculum. "As a result the academic work has been irregular.

The courses offered by the current third-year students when they were in their second year, were different from those of the present second year students," the students are reported as saying.