Sri Lanka gets the latest fully equipped medical faculty to the University of Rajarata University. The Faculty of Medicine & Allied Science in Saliyapura of the Rajarata University was inaugurated in 2006 and the first batch of students of this new Medical Faculty will commence their final year in March this year.
This Medical Faculty has to conform to the strict criteria laid down by the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) which is the statutory body for approval of standards in medical schools in the country.
Professorial clinical appointments have to be done in a university unit staffed by consultant staffs who are members of the University academic staff. The adequacy of these units for clinical teaching,number of variety of patients, standards maintained and the quality of the services offered are being constantly monitored by the Sri Lanka Medical Council which is the statutory body.
In keeping with this requirement a ward complex consisting of wards, operating theatres, intensive care units, labour rooms and many other specialist areas are being constructed near the Teaching Hospital,Anuradhapura.
Sri Lanka already has six medical faculties in the country and little over 1000 MBBS graduates pass out every year and all of them are absorbed into the Public Service. In addition around 300 foreign qualified medical graduates also join the public service after having passed the Act 16 examination conducted by the SLMC.
The government today approved the allocation of Rs 250 million for the procurement of the necessary equipment to the new units of the Faculty of Medicine of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
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