Undergraduate programmes
MBChB:
The Division of Medical Physiology is responsible for all the undergraduate physiology teaching of the MBChB degree programme. This involves approximately 170 contact sessions of physiology teaching per year carried out by 8 lecturers. The Division of Medical Physiology was an important contributor to the FMHS renewed MBChB curriculum that rolled out in 2022. In the MBChB I academic year, our Division is responsible for teaching principles of physiology in the Being and Becoming in Healthcare module, followed by the Form and Function module in the second semester where the bulk of human physiology is taught. The Division also involved in the Health and Wellness module of MBChB III. The Division also manages practical teaching in these modules where appropriate.
BSc Dietetics, BSc Physiotherapy, Bachelor of Nursing and Midwifery, Bachelor of Occupational Health:
The Division of Medical Physiology provides human physiology teaching in several service modules to the Division of Human Nutrition, the Division of Physiotherapy, the Division of Occupational Health and the Department of Nursing and Midwifery. Three human physiology modules cater for 1st and 2nd year students from these divisions: Human Physiology 171, Essentials of Human Physiology 271 and Fundamentals of Physiology 278. These modules cover all physiological systems in sufficient detail to provide the student with an understanding of how the different parts of the body work, the ability to read and understand the physiological literature (textbooks etc.) and the ability to acquire additional applied physiological information, to understand it, and place it in proper context.