Klintaps School of Medical Sciences
Clinical Training
Real hospitals, real communities, real responsibility — three clinical years across Greater Accra and the Eastern Region.
COBES — the community as classroom
Community-based from the second year
Most medicine happens far from teaching hospitals — in homes, markets, clinics and district health centres. COBES (Community-Based Education and Service) is how KSMS builds that truth into the curriculum from the second year.
From Level 200, students are placed in real Ghanaian communities: learning how families make health decisions, how district health systems actually run, and how prevention beats cure. Postings return each year with growing responsibility, ending in a full district placement at Level 500.
By the time a KSMS student begins their final clinical year, the community is not an abstraction — it is where they have already served.
The clinical network
Partner hospitals and the regional health system
Ga East Municipal Hospital
Kwabenya, Greater Accra
Tema General Hospital
Tema, Greater Accra
Shai Osudoku District Hospital
Dodowa, Greater Accra
Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital
Mampong-Akuapem, Eastern Region
Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate (GARHD)
Greater Accra Region
Regional health-system partnership — clinical placements across Greater Accra's public health facilities
UHAS Clinical Simulation Centre
University of Health and Allied Sciences
Formal partnership for simulation-based clinical skills training
Simulation before the bedside
High-fidelity practice, zero patient risk
Through our formal partnership with the UHAS Clinical Simulation Centre, KSMS students rehearse examinations, procedures and emergencies on high-fidelity simulators — building confidence and competence before they ever reach a real patient. On campus, the clinical skills laboratory carries that practice into every week of the clinical years.
The clerkships
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Paediatrics & Child Health
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
- Ophthalmology
- Ear, Nose & Throat
- Oncology & Palliative Care
- Accident & Emergency
- Population & Family Medicine