Kenyatta University, School of Medicine

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About us

The School of Medicine was established in August 2004 as a Center of Excellence in Health research, capacity building and product development. The School has grown has grown rapidly and has seen Public Health component branch off to form the School of Public Health. The School offers several Senate and Government approved and regulated health related programmes and is currently using several Government Health facilities for the clinical placements, attachments and rotations of its students as it puts up a modern Teaching, research and Referral Hospital commissioned by His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki.

Mission

The mission of the School is to produce highly trained, competent and adaptable health care providers with acumen in health care provision in all settings.

Vision

To become a Centre of excellence in training of healthcare provider of all level

Academic programmes

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm)
Bachelor of Science (Medical Laboratory Sciences)
Master of Science (Infectious Diseases)
Phd of Science (Infectious Diseases)

Research programmes

Challenges of Anesthesia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Access to Safe Obstetric Anesthesia in East Africa.
Key bottlenecks to the provision of safe obstetric anaesthesia in low- income countries; a cross-sectional survey of 64 hospitals in Uganda.
Siderophores in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae promote ciprofloxacin resistance by inhibiting the oxidative stress
Siderophores in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae promote ciprofloxacin resistance by inhibiting oxidative stress.
Multilocus Sequence Types and Virulence Determinants of Hypermucoviscosity-Positive Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated from Community-Acquired Infection Cases in Harbin, North China.
Multilocus Sequence Types and Virulence Determinants of Hypermucoviscosity-Positive Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated from Community-Acquired Infection Cases in Harbin, North China.
Chlorpromazine inhibits mitochondrial apoptotic pathway via increasing expression of tissue factor.
Development of a multiplex PCR system and its application in detection of blaSHV, blaTEM, blaCTX-M-1, blaCTX-M-9 and blaOXA-1 group genes in clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli strains.
Comparative Analysis of Quinolone Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli from Chinese Children and Adults.
In Vitro and in Vivo Activities of Blends of Crude Aqueous Extracts from Allium Sativum L, Callistemon Citrinus (Curtis) Skeels and Moringa Stenopetala (Baker F) Cufodontis against Leishmania Major.
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