As the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Benadir University, I would like to share my commitment to provide our student with superior education and learning environment. I am personally committed to the success of individual student.

Our teachers and professors are noted for their education to students, their excellent teaching, their clinical experience and their scholarly activities to remain at the cutting edge of their field.

We aim to teach our students to marry rigorous scientific knowledge and humane, compassionate care. And we have succeeded. Our graduates are distinguished not only by their exemplary patient care but also by their remarkable academic achievements.

Through the years, Benadir University college of Medicine has created many innovative and influential programs in medical education. For example, Benadir was a pioneer in combining traditional teaching methods with Problem-Based Learning, which focuses on self-directed learning and the development of active inquiry and critical reasoning skills. We also have developed a unique cadre of combined-degree programs.

We have established a Center for Learning with goal to promote quality and consistency for all Benadir educational activities. The center may act as a catalyst for curricular innovation, evaluation and research at all levels of medical training.

We are here to pass to the next generation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes the word Doctor means teacher. As doctors, we teach our patients, we teach our students, we teach our colleagues, we teach the public.

Our web site (www.benadiruniversity.net), hosts more than 3/4 of the didactic material of the first two academic years, termed by our last accreditation evaluators as "unique and powerful educational resource" Just recently, Benadir won a national award for its innovative programs. In the late 2007's, the Institution planned to establish a joint department of Family Medicine and Community Health in recognition of the national need to produce more primary care physicians. .

The Faculty of Medicine at Benadir University is noted for its teaching ability, and for its excellence in patient care and research, the faculty is involved in undergraduate medical education, and in the future we plan graduate and postgraduate as well as many specialized programs of national and international prominence.

Benadir University remains committed to its long-standing goal of producing the generalists of tomorrow as well as specialists who will handle and investigate more complex medical problems. Successful completion of our program enables Benadir graduates to obtain outstanding programs ranging from generalist medicine to highly specialized practice; and subsequently to achieve their fullest potential as clinicians, researchers, and public health workers.

Dr: Mohamed Mohamoud Hassan, M.D. Dean faculty of Medicine

The greatest obstacle to effective and comprehensive health care in the developing country is the inability to provide enough physicians to work in the periphery.

Not only the distribution of doctors in sufficient numbers over the country is important for the provision of adequate health care, but also so are their professional qualities. If the health services are to work properly in a given country, the doctors and staff must be of the kind that country requires.

This means that they must have been trained in such a way that their skills, knowledge and attitudes are appropriate to the role they are require to play in the health organization. It is essential that the training model for doctors and he curriculum should relate to their tasks.

The faculty aims to promote the understanding and application of Islamic values and traditions in all aspects of the practice in medicine.

To produce practitioners, researchers in clinical medicines and in the basic medical sciences. To foster in the students lifelong habits of continue Medical Education.

This curriculum has been the subject of investigation and evaluation.We have tried to draw on the experience of other colleges of medicine in different countries and several curricula have been reviewed.

Meetings, so which leading medical educators were invited, were held so discuss the design of the curriculum.

We are conscious that this curriculum we have adopted requires continuous review in the light of feedback from staff and students. That is why the curriculum committee of the college will be continuously reviewing and reassessing the objectives, contents and educational methods.

Academic Programs:

• Faculty of Medicine & Surgery offers Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBchB) degree
• Postgraduate Medical Education (Near Future)
• Continue Professional Development of Medical Doctors (CPD)

The Faculty of Medicine & Surgery offers programs of study leading to a degree of Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery with various departments, the faculty of has affiliated hospital for practical training elective clerkship and core clerkship. The duration is equivalent to six academic years divided in three phase:

• Phase I Premedical course mostly study in the Basic science course for the first two years.
• Phase II Preclinical & Clinical Integrated Medical Science
• Phase III Clinical & Clinical Clerkship
• The curriculum is 18 weeks per semester. There is a short break after each term and one month between two semesters & two months vacation at the end of academic year.

Establishment

The faculty of Medicine was established in September 2002.

Departments

The Faculty of Medicine has Five major departments:

Vision

The vision of the faculty is to be a centre of excellence in the production of knowledge that contribute to relevant skills and provide education of the highest quality, promoting basic educational and tailored professional services

Mission

The mission of the Faculty of Medicine is to promote professional excellence, unfold knowledge of human life processes, both in health and illness, encourage preventive health behavior and promote healthy life style, blend scholarship and service, follow a path of life-long learning, and share such learning with all those who come in contact including the community.

The objectives of the faculty of medicine

• To graduate physicians with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to work efficiently with health problems relevant to Somalia today and at any time in the future.
• To graduate physicians of an internationally accepted standard, capable of competing for any postgraduate specialist training programme, either within or outside Somalia.
• To graduate physicians capable of handling the preventive and curative aspects of health care in an integrated manner.
• To encourage and prepare graduates to perform research in areas relevant to the needs of Somalia.
• To train graduates to become self-dependent, life-long learners, by playing down lectures in favor.
• To provide learning environment and activities that closely reflects the practice situation and eliminates irrelevant materials.
• To provide extra-mural, community-oriented training and learning experiences, in addition to Hospital-based clinical training, under the supervision of staff members from different department.

The Faculty organization

The Organization of the faculty is based on basic sciences, professional course, projects of different discipline and offering specific courses that collectively form the curriculum while majority of the courses of basic sciences are taken during the first two years of study, the professional courses of three years will be dealt for Preclinical & Clinical study, Core Clinical Clerkship we dealt with the rest of the professional academic years of study.