University of the Free State UFS School of Biomedical Sciences 



University of the Free State UFS School of Biomedical Sciences

Quality improvements to our estates and clinical training platform capacity

In the last few years a number of quality enhancements to our estates and clinical training platform capacity has occurred:

  • The School of Medicine was divided into three schools:
    • Biomedical Sciences
    • Clinical Medicine
    • Pathology
  • The development of state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities in the new James Moroka Building with extension of lecture theatres to accommodate big classrooms from 2018
  • The new Muller Potgieter Building hosts the student administration teams, including the offices of the three heads of schools and the MB ChB Programme Director.
  • A magnificent Clinical Simulation and Skills Unit that would not be out of place in any top ten medical school worldwide is now operational and used for student training,
  • A brand new state-of-the-art anatomy building and dissection facilities were built during 2014 and opened for use during the 2015 academic year.
  • New next generation GMO unit in Biomedical Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Clinical Medicine
The School of Biomedical Sciences comprises the following departments and Units:
  • Animal Research Unit
  • Basic Medical Sciences
  • Biostatistics
  • GMO Unit
  • National Control Laboratory for Biological Products
  • Clinical Simulation and Skills Unit

The student administration teams are responsible for

  • Undergraduate Application and Selection according to our selection policy
  • Postgraduate Applications