Faculty of Medicine & Surgery
Salaam University started the academic activity in 2009 as a medical school to help train local doctors and health workers. The faculty offers the combined Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree.
Overview
Salaam University started the academic activity in 2009 as a medical school to help train local doctors and health workers. The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery provides high-level quality teaching, facilitated by overseas trained specialists in their field. Faculty of Medicine and Surgery offers the combined Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree.
Medical training is six years divided into two parts of three years each. The first part consists of taught courses with lab and classroom practice where students gain knowledge of the human body, how it functions and how to examine it. The second part is divided into two: first two years of clinical courses with emphasis on diseased body and practical skills in MCHs and Hospitals, and the last year is a hospital internship with obligatory rotations through Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Community and Emergency Medicine.
Our Vision
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery is committed to being a globally acclaimed institution, recognized for excellence in the medical field, scientific research, and professionalism, social and behavioral responsibility.
Our Mission
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery mission is to create a platform of producing graduate well-trained doctors to the highest levels of competence, committed to excellence, guided by professional ethics, ready to serve and lead the nation.
Core Values
In the conduct of education, research, patient care and community engagement.
In patient care and for the lives and conditions of all Somali people.
Embodying principles of altruism, beneficence and justice.
Demonstrated by our continuous support for the needy and participating to alleviate different calamities faced by our people.

Programmes Offered
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- Established 2009
- Main Campus, Mogadishu
- 1 academic programmes
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Contact the Admissions Office for programme-specific enquiries.
info@salaam.edu.so