DISCIPLINES OF ELECTIVE APPOINTMENTS

Disciplines Available at Colombo South Teaching Hospital

  • General Medicine (Internal Medicine)
  • General Surgery
    • Areas of special interest
    • Endoscopy
    • Therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography (ERCP)
    • Endo-urology involving laser techniques
    • Liver resection
  • Gynaecology & Obstetrics
  • Paediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Pharmacology/therapeutics
  • Forensic Medicine

Disciplines Available at the Faculty of Medical Sciences

  • General Practice/Family Practice-at the Family Practice Centre
  • Community Medicine (Public Health/Preventive Medicine)
    This will only be available at the time of clerkship programme. Those who are interested should check with the head of department of Community Medicine for further details. Please note that the months of the clerkship changes every year.

Laboratory (diagnostic and or research) experience in (Departments based at the Faculty of Medical Sciences)

  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Haematology
  • Histopathology
  • Immunology
  • Medical microbiology
  • Medical Parasitology
  • Centre for Dengue Research