The Faculty of Health-Care Sciences was established by a Gazette notification by the Government on 23^rd November 2005 as the 7^th Medical School in Sri Lanka.

Our faculty was initiated with the name ‘Faculty of Health – Care Sciences’ based on the modern trends in medical schools, mainly having all health professional education under one roof to cater the future healthcare needs of society. Since we have integrated modular based curriculum, essential health sciences disciplines have been combined into six administrative departments namely Human Biology, Pathophysiology, Primary Health Care, Clinical Sciences, Supplementary Health Sciences and Medical Education and Research. The first four departments consist of subject related disciplines in medicine. The Department of Supplementary Health Sciences currently involves in BSc Nursing study programme with the possibility of including other allied health sciences professions degree programme. read more..