The Department offers training for medical students leading to the award of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB ChB).

The department is involved in research activities and open for international collaborations on research on epidemiology, clinical features, investigations and management out comes. Genetics aspects of disease causation are also welcomed.  
Current collaborative research includes the INTERCEPT study, collaboration with Cambridge University in vascular and trauma surgery, collaborations on the management of breast diseases and genomics of prostate cancer.  
Implementing a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices in Ghana is a collaborative study with University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Publications (Link to UG space) 
Some recent publications include. 
James Edward Mensah, Evans Akpakli, Mathew Kyei, Kenneth Klufio, Isaac Asiedu, Kweku Asante, Bernard Toboh, Micheal Darko Ashaley, Ben Molai Addo, Bernard Morton, Erica Akoto Quist, Prostate-specific antigen, digital rectal examination, and prostate cancer detection: A study based on more than 7000 transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies in Ghana, Translational Oncology, Volume 51,2025,102163, ISSN 1936-5233, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2024.102163.

Hoffmann TJ, Graff RE, Madduri RK, Rodriguez AA, Cario CL, Feng K, Jiang Y, Wang A, Klein RJ, Pierce BL, Eggener S, Tong L, Blot W, Long J, Goss LB, Darst BF, Rebbeck T, Lachance J, Andrews C, Adebiyi AO, Adusei B, Aisuodionoe-Shadrach OI, Fernandez PW, Jalloh M, Janivara R, Chen WC, Mensah JE, Agalliu I, Berndt SI, Shelley JP, Schaffer K, Machiela MJ, Freedman ND, Huang WY, Li SA, Goodman PJ, Till C, Thompson I, Lilja H, Ranatunga DK, Presti J, Van Den Eeden SK, Chanock SJ, Mosley JD, Conti DV, Haiman CA, Justice AC, Kachuri L, Witte JS. Genome-wide association study of prostate-specific antigen levels in 392,522 men identifies new loci and improves prediction across ancestry groups. Nat Genet. 2025 Feb;57(2):334-344. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-02068-z.Epub 2025 Feb 10.

Kyei MY, Agyapong-Tandoh EK, Amedewonu EA, Mensah JE, Kyei JM, Oti-Mensah S. Management of complicated giant prostate hyperplasia. Ghana Med J. 2025 Jun;59(2):98-101. doi: 10.4314/gmj.v59i2.7.
 

Sefenu, P. R. S., Addo-lartey, A. A., Bonful, H. A., Nwameme, A., Abagre, T. A., Awua, A. K., Agyabeng, K., Birimpong, K. O., Adu-aryee, N. A., Dedey, F.,Mawuena, R., Adanu, K., & Okuyemi, K. S.. Development of a Culturally Appropriate Text Messaging Platform for Improving Breast Cancer Screening Uptake Among Ghanaian Women in Metropolitan Areas.  International Journal of Breast Cancer, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5587515
 

Nsaful, Josephine, Nartey, E. T., Dedey, F., Bediako-Bowan, A., Appiah-Danquah, R., Darko, K., Ankrah, L. N. A., Akli-Nartey, C., Annan, J. Y., Dei-Asamoa, J., Ahene-Amanquanor, G. A., & Clegg-Lamptey, J. N.   Quality of Life after Mastectomy with or without Breast Reconstruction and Breast-Conserving Surgery in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Study at a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana.  Current Oncology, 31(6), 2952–2962. https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol31060224

Gallery of Diseases seen and managed 

Bladder stone	Ileal conduit after radical cystectomy for bladder tumor
Para stomal Hernia	Mammography using a breast lesion
Crossed-fused renal ectopia

The main Surgical block is organized in units sub specializing in Breast diseases, hepatobiliary surgery, colorectal surgery, endocrine surgery and vascular surgery. Each unit also offers services in surgery in General and emergencies. 
Other sub specialties in the department include urology, plastic surgery, Orthopedics and trauma, cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric surgery, otolaryngology, ophthalmology and Neurosurgery 
The departments boost of about 400 beds of the 2000 bed capacity of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. 
Services rendered and form the basis of training include open procedures, endoscopic procedures, laparoscopic procedures and organ transplantation.

The care given at the department is supported by excellent laboratory services and radiology Department that’s is well equipped for cross sectional Imaging including Ct scan and MRIs as well as radionuclide studies

The department with its diverse patient population and high numbers as well as expertise in various sub specialties in Surgery, is a good facility for medical students and other students in medical science looking for elective placement and experience. 
The department has hosted 274 Elective students in the past 2 years making it one of the most sought-after departments in the university of Ghana medical school. The countries where the medical students were from included Germany, USA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Cyprus, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and from the African Continent. 
The medical School offers a complete experience in relation to medical training, accommodation and tourism sites. This is supported by the world acclaimed Ghanaian hospitality.