GMU offers the regular Four (04) year M.D. degree program to qualified traditional candidates who already hold a Bachelor’s Degree OR have fulfilled the entire core pre-medical requisites including at least 90 credit hours at the undergraduate level.
Mandatory curricular studies are completed in TEN (10) semesters over a duration of 40 calendar months.
The program is divided into two levels:
- Basic Medical Sciences (BMS) and
- Clinical Medicine (CM)
During the first two years (05 semesters), students focus on developing knowledge of the basic medical sciences under the direct supervision of qualified professors. Students are taught the scientific basis of health and disease in courses covering biomedical sciences taught in combination with clinical correlations, utilizing patient and physician educators to maximize the learning experience.
On completing the Basic Medical Sciences and clearing the Comprehensive Examinations, the students are allowed to progress to Clinical Medicine.
The last two (02) years of the program (05 semesters) consist of 80 weeks of mandatory clinical clerkships (rotations) alternating in the areas of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Community Medicine, Trauma, Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology.
GMU students rotate thorough clerkships where they master the core knowledge and skills of each clinical discipline. Medical-decision making and clinical skills are taught, developed and assessed by rotating in hospital ward teams, in medical offices and meeting with senior clinical faculty preceptors who teach, assess and mentor their student charges.
All clinical training is provided at affiliated accredited teaching hospitals in Guyana with clinical clerkship options available at affiliated networks of teaching facilities in the United States and elsewhere for qualified students.
Objectives of the Medical Program
To educate physicians who will:
- Be able to apply for modern medicine, diagnose, treat and prevent diseases;
- Have the basic analytical tools, concepts, principles, and skills required by medical practitioners;
- Apply scientific methods and principles to the care and treatment of human diseases;
- Respond in an ethical and competent manner to the needs of the community;
- Be clinically competent, sensitive, compassionate and socially responsible with scientific abilities;
- Perceive the medical career as a life-long learning experience.
Program Eligibility / Requirements
To be considered for admission into the regular MD program, the applicant must have a Bachelor’s degree or have completed a minimum of two (02) academic years or 90 credit hours of under-graduate studies at college level.
In addition to any social sciences or humanities course, the applicant must have successfully completed the Core Pre-Medical Pre-requisite subject materials with a minimum grade of “C”.
Undergraduate level Core Pre-requisite subjects for the Regular MD Program include
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of General Biology
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of Inorganic Chemistry
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of Organic Chemistry
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of Physics
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of Mathematics
- One academic year or 08 credit hours of English
Note: Students from outside of CARICOM region, UK, United States or Canada MUST submit a course-by-course description with an Official English Transcript or World Education Services (WES) evaluation.
Program Duration
GMU offers a fast track accelerated curricular structure with three (03) full semesters a year.
Under the accelerated curricular structure, FOUR (4) Year MD Degree program covers FIVE (05) years of academic studies within a duration of FORTY (40) calendar months
This allows full-time students not failing multiple courses and not going on academic leave to complete their academic studies within a 40 calendar months only.
| FOUR (04) Years MD Degree Program | |
| Total Number of Academic Years of Studies | 05 Years |
| Total Number of Calendar Months of Studies | 40 Months |
| Total Number of Semesters: | 10 Semesters |
| Basic Medical Sciences: | 05 Semesters |
| Clinical Medicine: | 05 Semesters |