Medical Schools in Africa

Medical Education in Sub-Saharan Africa has a long and storied history.  The first Sub-Saharan African institution to begin training medical doctors was the University of Cape Town in 1919.  Only a handful of new medical schools were established before 1950, but the independence of many nations in the middle of the twentieth century led to a boom of growth in the number of African medical schools in the 1960s and 1970s.  The 1990s and the 2000s saw a renewed vigor in the establishment of medical schools, with a variety of innovative models beginning to diversify the field of medical education.  Now, schools vary greatly in terms of size, curriculum, approach to education, and types of funding and governance.  All medical schools, however, share the mission of training the physicians who will help to tackle the world's health problems. 

 

This website hopes to offer the most current listing of medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Below is a listing of all medical schools in the database alphabetically.  To see a listing of the schools in any given country, please click on the country on the map at the right of your screen.  When the information is available, this list will include the number of graduates in a recent class.  In some cases, such as when a school is new and has not yet graduated its first class, that number will represent the number of students enrolled in a current class.  If you see a schools that is missing from this list, please contact us to let us know.