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The school, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, is located on the premises of the serene and beautiful Family Health Teaching Hospital Limited, a private hospital at Teshie, situated along the beach off the La-Teshie Beach Road.
The commencement of the first private medical school comes at a time that the high rate of rejection of many students with good grades, applying for admissions to the public medical schools with limited facilities, have become worrying not only for the frustrated applicants but also for parents, guardians and the public at large.
Presently the country’s four public medical training facilities do not have enough facilities to admit the numerous students who qualify for admission. This has resulted in low production levels of medical personnel resulting in a poor doctor-to-population ratio .
Facilities of the school
The Family Health Medical School has modern facilities. These include an E-library (Tim Johnson Library Complex), telemedicine facilities where students can have virtual lectures from abroad, House of Anatomy for dissection of Cadavers and all computerised facilities to view different parts of the human body.
It also has well-equipped laboratories with modern equipment for physiology, on-campus hostel facilities for students, accommodation for visiting professors, mortuary, sports field, a canteen and an administration block.
It will also collaborate with medical schools in the United States of America, Europe and Asia where students will have the privilege to go for electives and interact with their counterparts from the third year.
Admission
Prof. Kwawukume indicated that admission to the Family Health Medical School for the BSc (Med. Sci.) and MB ChB Programmes would follow an entrance examination and or interview of eligible candidates to be based on Senior High School Certificate Examinations, West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) and General Certificate Examination (GCE).
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