Clinical Trial Unit

Learning clinical skills is an essential component of a medical curriculum. Most of the clinical skills are learned by examining patients. How ever some clinical skills like cardio-respiratory resuscitation is difficult to teach with real patients. Some other procedures like assessing child birth need to be learned properly before attending to real patients.

Medical Education Centre

The staff of MEC is supported by many academic staff from other departments, who have a special interest and commitement to Medical Education. MEC runs short workshops on various importent aspects of Medical Education, for academic staff within the Faculty, as well as the extended Faculty.

Medical Library

Computer Centre

The Centre is actively involved in training students and both academic and non-academic staff in the use of computers. It has 40 terminals, run as a Local Area Network, as well as e-mail and Internet facilities. Short courses and workshops on Computer Literacy are run by the Centre, giving hands-on training to all participants. .

Tropical Medicine & Int. Health

Ragama General Hospital

Molecular Medicine Unit

The Molecular Medicine Unit (MMU) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya was established for furthering molecular studies on major infectious and vector-borne diseases of Sri Lanka, and provision of DNA based parentage and forensic testing.

Clinical Skills Unit

Learning clinical skills is an essential component of a medical curriculum. Most of the clinical skills are learned by examining patients. How ever some clinical skills like cardio-respiratory resuscitation is difficult to teach with real patients. Some other procedures like assessing child birth need to be learned properly before attending to real patients.

Spinal Cord Injury Unit

Thalassaemia Unit

The patients with thalassaemia major have always had a bad deal in Sri Lanka. Most patients do not get adequate amounts of blood transfusions. They have almost never got adequate chelation. Most of them are treated like out casts in their villages and even when they come for medical treatment are not very welcome by the medical staff.

Audio- visual Unit