The department of psychiatry contributes to the training of competent high quality health care workers. The wish of the department is for students to understand the total picture of patients’ problems for effective overall management including curative services, disease prevention, health promotion, rehabilitation based on careful collection of clinical data in biological, social, psychological and cultural/traditional domain of human experience.
PCO training was started in 1978. The psychiatric clinical officers’ training in Uganda is a brain child of the department of psychiatry at Makerere university which makes the 21 or more departments that make up the faculty of medicine.
The school governing council is comprised of 17 members and they are representatives of the following categories.
- Representative of the Alumni
- Representative of the Public Universities
- Two representatives of the Contributor’s Body (Butabika Hospital)
- Representative of the Ministry of Health
- Representative of the Ministry of Education and Sports
- Representative of the Professional Body
- Representative of the Teaching Staff
- Principal
- Representative of the Allied Health Professional Body
- Representative of the KCCA
- Representative of the Non-Teaching Staff
- Two representatives of PCO Association
- Three representatives of the students’ body (members of the guild)