NMC Recognised MBBS (MD) Program
NMC Recognised MBBS (MD) Program
At DMSF we leave no stone unturned when it comes developing conceptual based knowledge and showcasing the application of it simultaneously. To achieve this, we have divided the four years of MBBS (MD Program) into 4 ½ Academic Years with Two Semester each which adds up to a total of at least 18 weeks per semester, excluding the registration and comprehensive examinations. This has enabled us to maintain a high passing percentage and in positioning us both as the best medical college for MBBS in Philippines and the best college to study MBBS in abroad in general.
It is very important that we establish our grassroot level understanding before we climb up the tree of knowledge. The deeper the roots. Taller the Tree. The first year curriculum involves facilitating the students with enhanced understanding of Medicine, introducing to the study of normal structure and function of different organ systems of the human body- from molecular mechanisms to cellular processes vital for sustaining homeostasis.
During this year, we train students to be keen observers and critical thinkers. We open up their spectrum of learning to go beyond the standard requirements. Hence, we also emphasize on upskilling students in understanding the importance of non-biological determinants of poor health. Also, developing a comprehensive knowledge about the economic, psychological, social and cultural factors that may contribute to the development or continuation of the illness. We also make sure every student is equipped with proper communication skills to interact with their patients better and use refined clinical reasoning skills for better diagnosis. The students are also taught ethical approach to patient care as well as evidence based medicine in their first years.
1. Gross Anatomy: (Yearly Subject)
Using interactive media, cadavers, dissection tables and group discussions, Gross Anatomy deals with moral structures of the human body and its organs, including the concept and the process of embryology. Each organ system is studied in detail primarily at megascopic level.
2. Histology (Yearly Subject)
Histology imparts the microscopic anatomy of various organ systems through laboratory microscopy and interactive sessions and modules.
3. Physiology (Yearly Subject)
This course is intended to give sufficient information about the ordinary elements of the diverse organ frameworks of the human body and how these organ frameworks collaborate with each other to look after homeostasis.
4. Biochemistry (Yearly subject)
This course is intended to give satisfactory information on the ordinary bio-chemical cycles that happen at the atomic degree of the diverse organ frameworks of the human body, with an accentuation on starch, protein and fat digestion and the part of nutrients and minerals during those cycles. In accordance with the advancement in the clinical field, the field of Genetics is given unique thought.
5. Neuro-anatomy (One Semester)
This course is designed to prepare medical students basic concepts in neuro-anatomy as they relate to normal functions of the human body.
6. Primary Health Care (One Semester)
This course provides the necessary knowledge, attitudes and skills in primary health care – its principles and application, as an approach to family and community health development, including basic socio-cultural and economic determinants affecting health.
7. Research 1 (One Semester)
This course provides basic understanding of doing research as part of the physician's role in providing new knowledge in medicine. Ethics in research is also emphasized.
8. Arts and Science of Medicine 1 (One Semester)
This course is intended to build up understudy's abilities in correspondence and polished skill, and help comprehend the healer's part to both individual patients and society, including moral conduct.
The course substance are intended to furnish understudies with the comprehension of the typical and changed structure and capacity of the human body, including the function of genetic, developmental, metabolic, toxic, infectious, immunologic, neoplastic, degenerative, and horrible components that may add to the body's problem/ailment (pathogenesis). The standards and ideas of therapeutics are additionally instructed. The capacity to get an exact clinical history, play out a total actual assessment and create rational and relational abilities are likewise educated with persistent introductions is developed in the subsequent semester.
1. General Pathology (Yearly Subject)
This course is intended to instruct medical students gross and microscopic changes in the structure of the diverse cell as well as organ frameworks of the human body.
2. Clinical Pathology (Yearly Subject)
This course is intended to show medical students how to assess different research lab tests of various tissue liquids and discharges of the human body and how to associate the outcomes with the clinical signs in patients.
3. Pharmacology (Yearly Subject)
This course is intended to show clinical understudies the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of different medications and substances on the distinctive organ frameworks of the human body through enormous and little gatherings & conversations, lab exercises and exploration contemplates.
4. Neuroscience 2 (Yearly Subject)
This course manages nervous system science in the main semester and prologue to psychiatry in the subsequent semester.
5. Art and Science of Medicine 2 (Yearly Subject)
This course manages the science and art of history taking and physical examination with emphasis on the correct identification of normal and abnormal signs and symptoms.
6. Microbiology and Parasitology (Yearly Subject)
Microbiology in the first semester is intended to show medical students essential ideas, standards and finding of bacterial, viral, and contagious diseases and the function of invulnerable reactions against such contaminations. Parasitology will be offered in the subsequent semester.
7. Research 2 (One Semester)
This course deals with principles of research, including epidemiology, and their applications in the surveillance, diagnosis, management / prevention of diseases and the promotion of health.
8. Pediatrics 2 (One Semester)
This course is designed primarily to orient the students on the basic concepts and principles of Pediatrics, with emphasis on the process of normal growth and development.
9. Surgery 2 (ONE SEMESTER)
This course introduces the student to the historical developments in surgery, basic concepts & principles in surgery with applied correlations of anatomy, physiology & biochemistry in surgical diseases, trauma, infections & neoplasms.
10. Obstetrics 2 (One Semester)
This course deals with the anatomic and functional concepts, principles and processes of the female reproductive system.
The course substance is intended to furnish students with the comprehension of the standards and ideas of illnesses of various clinical specialities, it's epidemiology, pathogenesis, counteraction, therapeutic and diagnostic techniques, differential diagnosis, the management and their continuing correlation with basic medical sciences.
1. Internal Medicine 3 (Yearly Subject)
Important concepts, principles, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management of various diseases and disorders found in man are taught in this course.
2. Neuroscience 3 (Yearly Subject)
The first semester will deal with Neurology and Psychiatry in the second semester.
3. Obstetrics and Gynecology 3 (Yearly Subject)
Important concepts, principles and processes of the female reproductive system will be taught through classroom discussions and clinical encounters with simulated and real patients.
4. Pediatrics 3 (Yearly Subject)
The course continues to teach the student common pediatric problems and abnormalities at different stages of growth and development.
5. Surgery 3 (Yearly Subject)
This course is a continuation of Surgery 2 and deals with the different subdivisions of surgery (head and neck, thorax, abdomen, urology, cardiovascular, orthopedics, etc).
6. Ophthalmology (One Semester)
This course teaches the student basic concepts and principles of Ophthalmology.
7. Eyes, Nose and Throat (One Semester)
This course teaches the student basic concepts and principles of ENT in the second semester.
8. Legal Medicine and Jurisprudence (One Semester)
This course deals with medical law, the medico-legal aspects of negligence, malpractice, forensic pathology, crimes and court procedures as well as government policies in healthcare.
9. Dermatology (One Semester)
Concepts, principles, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management of common skin disorders are taught in this subject.
10. Rehabilitation Medicine (One Semester)
This subject is designed to introduce students on the philosophy and principles of rehabilitation medicine as well as evaluation and management of common disabling conditions.
11. Radiology (One Semester)
Important concepts and principles of radiology as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine will be taught in this subject.
12. Community Medicine 3 (YEARLY SUBJECT)
This course intends to discuss the social and epidemiological basis of program interventions and apply the principles and methods in the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
13. Medical Ethics (One Semester)
This course deals with ethical principles in the practice of medicine, the morality of human acts, the personal rights and duties of physicians toward God, society and fellow physicians.
The clerkship program consists of fifty-two weeks of modular rotations in the Departments of Internal Medicine (eight weeks), Surgery (eight weeks), Pediatrics (eight weeks), Obstetrics & Gynecology (eight weeks) and Community Medicine (eight weeks), Psychiatry (four weeks), Ophthalmology and ENT (one week each), Dermatology (two weeks) and Clinical Skills Training (four weeks). Under the supervision of the clinical/field preceptor, the student is given the opportunity to demonstrate the twelve outcomes of the medical program.