ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Biomedical Sciences Department is one of the three departments at the Simon Mazorodze School of Medical and Health Sciences (SMSMHS). The department houses the prestigious Biomedical Sciences Degree program designed to include traditional and herbal medicine components in line with the Heritage-based Education 5.0 model to meet the needs of the communities and industries in Zimbabwe. The Department comprises five units which include: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Pathology, Physiology and Herbal Medicine and Pharmacology. Currently, the department offers two undergraduate programs: a Bachelor of Science General Degree and a BSc. Honors Degree in Biomedical Sciences, which is a prerequisite of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Honours Degrees. The department also offers postgraduate research programs: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees. The MPhil and DPhil degrees are offered in the following areas: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology, Chemical Pathology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Medical Analytics and Informatics. These programs were designed to capacitate graduates and enable them to transform and modernize the national health system. This will be made possible through the development of services, therapeutic products, drugs, vaccines, and appliances, for the management of health problems in the country. The department is involved in a number of research projects in health care as well as the development and production of technologies that contribute to the latest advances in medical science. This will in turn generate solutions in community-based projects that address local health needs to achieve universal health coverage targets by 2030.