Medicine and Surgery at University of the Witwatersrand

Programme overview

An MBBCh degree opens doors to exciting and challenging careers. Surgeons, paediatricians, pathologists, radiologists, and family medicine practitioners start with an MBBCh. An MBBCh degree opens doors to exciting and challenging careers. In addition, there is a critical need in South Africa’s under-served areas for doctors to provide quality preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic services.

Faculty: Health Sciences | Department: Clinical Medicine | Duration: 6 years | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

What you will study

First-year; Integrated Sciences for Medical Students; Foundations of Public Health and Health Systems Science; The Science and Art of Health and Learning; Person, Family and Community I; Second-year (Subject to Change); Anatomy for Medical Practice: From Conception to Complexity; Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems; Molecular Foundations of Health and Disease; Person, Family and Community II;

Career pathways

Areas of Specialisation: • Anaesthesiology • Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease • Community Health • Family Medicine • Forensic Medicine • Internal Medicine • Obstetrics and Gynaecology • Ophthalmology • Pathology • Paediatrics • Psychiatry • Radiology • Surgery

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Application information

Entry requirements

NSC Requirements English Home Language OR First Additional Language Level 5 Mathematics Level 5 Life Sciences AND/OR Physical Sciences Level 5 The Faculty of Health Sciences uses a Composite Index (CI) score to guide applicant selection. This includes: Your matric academic results for five subjects: English, Mathematics, best of Physical Sciences/Life Sciences and the best two other subjects. We consider the percentage achieved, not the symbol. The average of the five subjects carries a 75% weighting. National Benchmark Test (NBT) scores. The average of the NBT scores carries a 25% weighting. All applicants must write the NBT at one of the Pencil and Paper, i.e. IN-PERSON NBT sessions. Online NBT results will not be considered. NBT results are valid for three years and Wits only considers the first attempt of the NBT from the most recent year. For more information and bookings, please go

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.

Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications

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