Klintaps School of Medical Sciences
The MBChB Programme
Docemus · Curamus · Sanamus — We teach, we care, we heal. Six years from foundation sciences to the wards, at West Africa's most future-forward medical school. Degree awarded by the University of Cape Coast.
The degree
An MBChB of the University of Cape Coast
KSMS operates in formal academic affiliation with the University of Cape Coast, mentored by the UCC School of Medical Sciences. Examination papers and marked scripts are moderated by UCC academic staff, and the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree is awarded by the University of Cape Coast. The MBChB programme at the Klintaps School of Medical Sciences is approved by the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana, accredited by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), and delivered in academic affiliation with the University of Cape Coast, which awards the degree. Klintaps is one of the few private institutions in Ghana training medical doctors.
How you learn
Problem-based, small-group learning
Medicine is learned the way it is practised: in small groups, around real clinical problems, with lecturers as guides rather than lecterns.
An integrated spiral curriculum
Body systems are studied as living wholes — anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pathology woven together, revisited at increasing depth each cycle.
Community-based education (COBES)
From Level 200 through Level 500, structured placements in Ghanaian communities and district health systems — because most medicine happens outside teaching hospitals.
Examined to a national standard
Five professional examinations across the six years — written papers, OSCEs and OSPEs — moderated by University of Cape Coast academic staff.
Level by level
The six-year curriculum
Levels 100–300 build the medical sciences (Cycle I). Levels 400–600 are the clinical years (Cycle II), finishing with a 36-week continuous final clinical year and the professional examinations.
Level 100
Cycle I beginsFoundation Year
The scientist before the doctor
- Core sciences rebuilt for medicine: chemistry, physics, biology and the first look inside the human body.
- Artificial Intelligence for Medical Practice — you will practise in the AI era, so training starts in it.
- Communication that widens your reach: French for Health Professionals and Introductory Sign Language.
- Health Law and Medical Ethics from day one — professional identity is taught, not assumed.
Level 200
COBES beginsSystems of the Body I
Integrated, systems-based learning
- The spiral curriculum in motion: musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestive and skin systems studied as living wholes, not isolated subjects.
- COBES — Community-Based Education and Service — begins: real Ghanaian communities become your first classroom outside the lecture hall.
- Research Methods: every KSMS doctor learns to read and produce evidence.
Level 300
Mechanisms of Disease
From how the body works to how it fails
- Defence and infection, disease mechanisms, and the scientific basis of therapeutics — the bridge from science to medicine.
- Neurosciences, endocrine, reproduction and growth, and mind health and behaviour.
- Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Healthcare Systems — doctors who can build and lead, not only treat.
- A supervised research project caps the pre-clinical years.
Level 400
Cycle II beginsInto the Wards
Clinical training begins
- Introduction to Clinical Practice: history-taking, examination and clinical reasoning at the bedside.
- First clerkships: General Surgery, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at partner hospitals across Greater Accra and the Eastern Region.
- Forensic Medicine and Toxicology.
Level 500
The Specialties
Breadth across the whole of medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics clerkships — junior and senior rotations.
- Ophthalmology, ENT, and Oncology & Palliative Care.
- COBES district placement: living and working in a district health system, seeing how care actually reaches people.
Level 600
Final yearThe Final Ascent
A 36-week continuous clinical year
- One unbroken 36-week clinical block — the longest continuous hospital immersion of the programme.
- Senior clerkships in General Surgery and Internal Medicine, plus Population & Family Medicine and Accident & Emergency.
- A clinical project, then the final professional examinations — and the MBChB of the University of Cape Coast.
Clinical clerkships
The breadth of medicine, at the bedside
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Paediatrics & Child Health
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
- Ophthalmology
- Ear, Nose & Throat
- Oncology & Palliative Care
- Accident & Emergency
- Population & Family Medicine
Clerkships run at KSMS partner hospitals across Greater Accra and the Eastern Region. See the clinical network.
Where you train
Anatomy Skills Laboratory
Hands-on anatomy from the first year, in a dedicated dissection and skills facility.
Clinical Skills Laboratory
Examination, procedure and communication skills practised on campus before you meet patients.
Histopathology & Multipurpose Laboratory
Microscopy and laboratory medicine integrated with the systems-based curriculum.
General & Microbiology Laboratory
Core biomedical sciences with modern bench facilities.
Simulation training
Formal partnership with the UHAS Clinical Simulation Centre for high-fidelity simulation.
E-library with UCC access
24/7 electronic library, plus permanent access to the University of Cape Coast's collection of over one million books, journals and periodicals.
One student, one laptop
Every KSMS student is equipped through the Klintaps laptop initiative — curriculum, portal and e-learning delivered digitally, with campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Sixteen departments, one doctor
What you will learn, department by department
Every KSMS department is led by professors and senior specialists. Here is the ground each one covers on your way to the MBChB.
Foundations of the body
The pre-clinical years — how the human body is built and how it works.
Anatomy
Dissection-based study of the body's structure — the map every clinician navigates by, taught hands-on in the anatomy skills laboratory.
Physiology
How the healthy body actually works, system by system — the baseline against which all disease is understood.
Biochemistry
The molecular machinery of life: metabolism, genetics and the chemistry that explains both disease and its treatment.
Mechanisms of disease
The bridge from science to medicine — what goes wrong, how to detect it, how to treat it.
Pathology
What disease does to cells, tissues and organs — and how it is recognised under the microscope.
Chemical Pathology
Reading the body's chemistry: interpreting the laboratory tests that guide real diagnosis and treatment.
Microbiology
Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites — infection, immunity, and the rational use of antimicrobials.
Haematology
Blood and its disorders, from anaemia to leukaemia, plus the science of safe transfusion.
Pharmacology
How drugs work in the body — and how to prescribe safely, rationally and confidently.
The clinical departments
The clinical years — learning medicine at the bedside, in theatre and in the community.
Internal Medicine
The diagnosis and management of adult disease — the intellectual core of clinical practice, through junior and senior clerkships.
Surgery
Operative care from first principles to the theatre — surgical thinking, technique and the care that surrounds an operation.
Paediatrics & Child Health
The medicine of infants, children and adolescents — where small differences in care change whole lifetimes.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Pregnancy, safe childbirth and the full span of women's health.
Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
Mental health assessment and care — and the behavioural science that makes every doctor better with every patient.
Community & Family Medicine
Whole-person, whole-community care — the home of the COBES placements that run through the programme.
Anaesthesia
Perioperative care, resuscitation, pain management and the fundamentals of critical care.
Radiology & Imaging
Seeing inside the body — X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, and how imaging guides modern diagnosis.
Ready to earn the white coat?
First cohort September 2026. Applications open now.