The department has four functional units, Public Health, Family Medicine, Psychiatry and the Community Health Centre. Through these units the department provides undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Additionally, clinical services were delivered through the Community Health Centre, and mental health services through the Department of Psychiatry, the University Hospital of the West Indies. Read more

The department continues to make great strides in Teaching, Research and Service activities. Our Associate Lecturers from our accredited affiliate hospitals (Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Spanish Town Hospital, May Pen Hospital, St Anns Bay Hospital, Mandeville Regional Hospital, Cornwall Regional Hospital and Savanna-La-Mar Hospital) give indispensable support to our department. Read More

The Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (SURRADIC) is the largest clinical department in the FMS. Read more

The transition to the School of Dentistry continues with the addition of new administrative staff, and the re-organisation of areas of responsibilities and assigned duties. READ MORE

The Medical Education Unit (MEU) was established in 2007 by the then Dean, Prof. A. McDonald. The mandate was to develop and implement medical education philosophy and practice in the undergraduate medical programme and to coordinate accreditation and quality assurance initiatives in response to a growing need. Read More

The Clinical Translational Research Unit (CTRU) of the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus was created to support research activities within the FMS. Translation research, in this context, involves taking the findings of scientific investigations to real life applications with the purpose of improving healthcare. Read More