Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The University of Ghana Medical Centre is a quaternary medical and research centre located on the campus of the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History
The University of Ghana Medical School also UGMS is the medical school of Ghana's first public research institution, the University of Ghana. It is currently located at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. [1] [2] The medical school was first planned in 1919, but took its first students in 1962. [1] [2]
Former President John Dramani Mahama inaugurated the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in 2016. The hospital, with a capacity of 597 beds, was initiated in 2012. After he was out of office in 2017, the project was left dormant until an approval of $50 million was granted by Parliament to finalize the remaining construction at the ...
The original emphasis on establishing the University of Ghana was on the Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, Law, Basic Science, Agriculture, and Medicine. [11] However, as part of a national educational reform program, the university's curriculum was expanded to provide more Technology-based and Vocational courses as well as Postgraduate Training.
Korle-Bu gained teaching hospital status in 1962, when the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) was established for the training of medical doctors. The University of Ghana Medical School and five other constituent schools are now subsumed under the College of Health Sciences to train an array of health professionals. All the institutions ...
The Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Korle Bu, is the premier institution in Ghana for nursing education and was established in 1945. Agnes Yewande Savage , the first West African woman medical doctor, supervised the establishment of the Nurses' Training School at Korle Bu, where a nurses’ ward is named after her. [ 2 ]
The school is classed among the Class A schools in Ghana. [ 3 ] In 2011 the first four-year program badge of the school set an unprecedented record in making the highest passes in the West African Senior High School Council Examination (WASSCE) with a maximum of 200 students getting A+ in all eight examinations. 488 students were registered for ...
'Ghana Christian University College', [1] formerly known as Ghana Christian College and Seminary, is a private tertiary institution in Ghana. It was established in 1966 by independent Christian missionaries from the United States. [2] It is located at Amrahia in the Adentan Municipality in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. [3]