Mount Kenya University (MKU), School of Medicine, has been ranked as the most compliant institution overall among public and private universities offering medical and health courses.
Maseno and Kisii universities were ranked second and third as public universities that have also met the requirements.
This is according to findings and recommendations of the third Joint Inspection of Medical and Dental Schools and Teaching Hospitals by the medical and dental practitioners’ boards and councils across East Africa, released on Saturday.
MKU, a private institution, scored 82 out of the available 100 points while Maseno scored 81 points followed by Kisii University with 80 points.
Kenya’s oldest university, University of Nairobi (School of medicine) scored 58 percent in medicine and 68 percent in the school of dental sciences programme.
According to the report, MKU and Maseno were the only private and public universities that met the minimum requirements for training of medical and dental students as provided in the East African Community (EAC) regional guidelines for Inspection and Recognition of Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals in EAC Partner States.
“Therefore; upon qualification their graduates shall be eligible for reciprocal recognition within the EAC Partner States as set out in the Mutual Recognition Agreement,” the report released in Nairobi by the team of inspectors chaired by Dr Nyemazi Alex, a member of the Rwanda Medical and Dental Council and Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) chief executive Daniel Yumbya said.
Other major institutions such as Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology scored (66), Moi University, School of Medicine (61), UoN School of Medicine (58), Egerton Univerity (54), Kenyatta
University (54), Moi University School of Dentistry (54), Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (53) and though partially compliant, have a myriad of challenges that need to be addressed to improve the quality of training.
Uzima University College, Medical School which came last with 49 points was declared non-compliant and ordered to close the institution and redistribute the continuing students to the other medical schools.
The inspection focused on major areas of governance and management, academic programmes, Human Resource, student affairs and infrastructure, among others.
