It's a changing world- Want to be a doctor? Pass ‘Junior Clerkship’

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course at the University of Nairobi has ‘Junior Clerkship’ and is taught for 180 hours [PHOTO: COURTESY]

There are units in campus syllabus that leave students scratching their heads.

Take Moi University for instance. Here, media science/journalism students must study ‘Subject Indexing and Thesaurus Construction,’ a unit about how to construct indexes. Many students have no idea what this is. Still at Moi, students studying Business Management have a unit called ‘Health Awareness’ — its photocopied handouts cost a pocket-destroying Sh700.