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Undergraduate Teaching

The Department of Mental Health provides teaching and training to COM students in the MBBS and BSc courses, from the early to the later years of their training.

The main mental health teaching programme for medical student takes place in year four (MBBS IV).

MBBS IV Teaching blocks:

Twice yearly, we run a one week long Child and Adolescent/Learning Disability teaching block. The block combines small and large group teaching, community visits and input from agencies working with vulnerable children.

The six week long General Adult Mental Health/Psychiatry teaching blocks are run four times each academic year. During this teaching rotation, students get experience inĀ  acute outpatient and inpatient psychiatry at our clinical sites at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and Zomba Mental Hospital. Two interactive lecture blocks and problem based learning sessions cover the theoretical knowledge junior doctors will need to provide high quality mental health care to patients in primary and secondary health service settings. Our aim is for students to discover that psychiatry is an essential clinical specialty that is crucial to a holistic approach to medicine.

Watch and listen to our students describing their experience of the course:

Mental Health Teaching at the College of Medicine, Malawi from Department of Mental Health COM on Vimeo.