The University for Development Studies (UDS) is collaborating with Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) in Israel to run a parallel MBCHB Medical programme at UDS. 

The UDS for the past five years has been making strides to meet the challenge of admitting more graduate students who apply to do medicine at the university. The programme is scheduled to start in January 2016.

Vice-chancellor of the UDS, Prof. Gabriel Ayum Teye made the statement in a speech read on his behalf by the director of Institute for Continuous Education and Interdisciplinary Research (ICIER) of the university, Prof, Seidu Al-Hassan at the 23^rd matriculation of the UDS in Wa.

He said the programme will be a split-site programme where students will train for the first three years of Pre-Clinical studies in UDS, after which they will proceed to Israel for two years of elective Clinical training. They will complete the sixth and final year with a final examination in the school of medicine in UDS.

A total of one hundred and thirty-four people applied for the programme at the close of application on September 30, 2015. The university has decided to open applications again till the end of October because many qualified applicants, most of them foreigners could not have access to the application forms.    

Prof. Gabriel Teye said the university has just established a School of Engineering and will start five new programmes next academic year (2016/17) under the department of Agriculture Engineering (DAE) and department of water and waste engineering (DEWWE).

The university is also on the verge of introducing new academic programmes for 2016/17 ccademic year which include Pharmacy, Master of Public Health, MSc Community Disaster Resilience studies and MSc Paediatric nursing. The rest are MSc./Mphil/PhD Biometrical Laboratory Sciences and BSc. Engineering Sciences (Mechanical Engineering, Soil and Water Conservation).  

Turning to the 2015/2016 admissions, Professor Ayum Teye said the university received a total of 13,079 and 792 for under graduate and graduate application forms respectively. Out of the number they could only admit 5,173 comprising 4,806 under graduates and 367 graduate students.