# Adama Hospital Medical College

> A public hospital-based medical college in Adama, established by Oromia Regional State proclamation in 2011 around a hospital founded in 1946. It runs schools of medicine, health sciences and public health, and teaches at a 520-bed comprehensive specialised hospital.

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Last updated: 2026-11-04

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Public medical college · Adama, Oromia · founded 2011 · details checked November 4, 2026

## Contact

- Phone: +251 22 211 1922 (Main line) — Printed on the college site as +2510222111922.
- Phone: +251 22 111 2250 (Teaching hospital reception (24 hours, emergency care))
- Email: info@adamahmc.edu.et (General)
- Email: registrar@adamahmc.edu.et (Registrar and Admission)
- Email: provost@adamahmc.edu.et (Provost secretariat)
- Website: https://adamahmc.edu.et
- Address: Adama Hospital compound, along the Adama–Asella highway, Adama
- P.O. Box: P.O. Box 84, Adama
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adamahospitalmedicalcollege

## Health programmes

- Doctor of Medicine (MD)
- Six specialty residency programmes (including paediatrics and child health, and orthopaedics and trauma surgery)
- Nursing and midwifery programmes
- Pharmacy
- Medical laboratory sciences
- General MPH and MPH in Reproductive Health
- MPH in Public Health Nutrition
- MPH in Epidemiology

## Health and medical education

Adama Hospital Medical College (AHMC) is a public, hospital-based medical school in Adama, about 100 km east of Addis Ababa. It grew out of **Adama Hospital**, which foreign missionaries founded in **1946** as the Haile Mariam Mamo Memorial Hospital. The hospital was one of Ethiopia's first non-governmental health facilities. It was nationalised in 1974 under the Derg.

In **2011** the hospital was upgraded to a medical college under the national agreement for hospital-based medical colleges. It became a higher education institution through **Oromia Regional State Proclamation No. 136/2003** (Ethiopian calendar). Sources date the start slightly differently: the college's history page says 2011, and a 2015 University of Michigan (CIRHT) article says AHMC was inaugurated as a medical college in September 2012. The college's Facebook page describes it as one of the 13 new medical schools opened to implement the New Medical Education Initiative. Its history page says it adopted the national innovative medical curriculum in 2013.

### Medicine and residencies

Medicine is the founding school. It teaches pre-clinical sciences, clerkships and **six residency programmes**. It has 16 departments, ranging from internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics to dermatology (with a leprosy and neglected-tropical-disease clinic), oncology, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, radiology, pathology and dental and maxillofacial surgery. Internal medicine is the largest clinical unit. Its department page says it was "established with the college in 2005", which does not match the 2011 founding date; ask the college if the date matters to you.

AHMC reports specialist graduates in **paediatrics and child health** (its 2025 class) and its **first class of orthopaedic and trauma surgery** specialists. The college says trauma is a leading cause of admission along the Addis–Adama corridor, which is why orthopaedics is a priority department.

### Health sciences

The **School of Health Sciences** trains the largest share of the college's students. Its three departments are:
- **Nursing and midwifery**, the largest by enrolment
- **Pharmacy**, which also runs the hospital's clinical pharmacy service
- **Medical laboratory sciences**

The school describes its offer as BSc and MSc programmes plus advanced diplomas, but does not list programme titles. When the college opened, its programmes were medicine, nursing, midwifery, radiography and sociology.

### Public health

The **School of Public Health** was established in 2022, but its MPH teaching is older:
- General MPH and MPH in Reproductive Health: from 2016
- MPH in Public Health Nutrition: from 2020
- MPH in Epidemiology: from 2021

It has 16 academic staff, four of them with doctorates. Under a 2026–2036 plan, it aims for eight MPH tracks and four PhD programmes.

### The teaching hospital

AHMC's **Comprehensive Specialized Teaching Hospital** shares one compound with the college. It is described as a **520-bed** tertiary referral centre for a catchment of **more than 15 million people**, with more than **330,000 outpatient visits** a year. Services include:
- Adult, paediatric, obstetric and trauma emergency care
- Adult, paediatric and neonatal ICUs
- Dialysis
- Oncology, including gynaecologic and paediatric oncology
- Cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery clinics
- An MDR-TB ward
- A one-stop centre for gender-based violence
- Imaging including CT and MRI

Interns, residents and allied health trainees rotate through the wards, theatres, ICUs and clinics.

### Accreditation and rankings

The college says its 20 programmes are accredited, but it does not list the certificates. No AHMC programme was on the ETA's online register when we checked on 4 November 2026. That register holds only 13 records nationwide, so absence is not a failing mark. AHMC does not appear on EduRank or uniRank.

## The institution

AHMC is organised into three schools (Medicine, Public Health and Health Sciences) and the teaching hospital. It is led by a provost and three vice-provosts, one of them for academic and research affairs. It describes itself as delivering **20 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes**. The college works within the Oromia regional health system. In 2026 it signed a memorandum of understanding with Adama Science and Technology University and held its second annual research conference.

**Getting there:** visitors arriving by public transport can ask for the Adama Hospital compound on the Adama–Asella highway. College offices open Monday to Friday, 08:30–12:00 and 13:30–17:00. The hospital's emergency service runs 24 hours a day.

**Admission:** undergraduates are admitted through the **national university placement system**. They confirm their place in person at the registrar's counter during the announced registration dates. Postgraduate and advanced-standing applicants sit entrance exams set by each school. We found no published tuition figures.

**A naming caution.** The IAU's World Higher Education Database lists an "Adama General Hospital and Medical College" as **private**, founded in 2012. Yet that entry gives AHMC's own website (adamahmc.edu.et) and P.O. Box 84, and was last updated in 2017. AHMC's own site describes a public college established by regional proclamation. Our medical-schools guide also lists a separate private Adama General Hospital & Medical College from the World Directory of Medical Schools. Make sure the college you apply to is the one you mean.

## Before you apply

- **Check the name on every document.** Confirm you are dealing with Adama Hospital Medical College (adamahmc.edu.et, P.O. Box 84), not a similarly named private college in Adama.
- **Ask for the accreditation certificate for your programme.** The college says its programmes are accredited but does not publish the certificates, and none was on the ETA's online register when we checked.
- **Confirm the programme list for nursing and allied health.** The website lists departments, not degree titles, so ask the registrar which BSc and MSc programmes are taking students this year.
- **For residency,** ask which six specialties are open and how places are allocated through the national matching programme.
- **Expect a busy clinical setting.** The hospital serves a very large catchment and many trauma cases, which means plenty of hands-on exposure. Ask how supervision works on the wards.

## Sources

- [Adama Hospital Medical College – official website (home page)](https://adamahmc.edu.et/)
- [AHMC – History](https://adamahmc.edu.et/about/history)
- [AHMC – Contact & Location](https://adamahmc.edu.et/contact)
- [AHMC – School of Medicine](https://adamahmc.edu.et/academics/medicine)
- [AHMC – School of Health Sciences](https://adamahmc.edu.et/academics/health-sciences)
- [AHMC – School of Public Health](https://adamahmc.edu.et/academics/public-health)
- [AHMC – Comprehensive Specialized Teaching Hospital](https://adamahmc.edu.et/academics/teaching-hospital)
- [AHMC – Registrar and Admissions](https://adamahmc.edu.et/academics/registrar)
- [Adama Hospital Medical College – AHMC (official Facebook page)](https://www.facebook.com/adamahospitalmedicalcollege)
- [CIRHT (University of Michigan) – New equipment means new opportunities for women's health, November 2015](https://cirht.med.umich.edu/2015/11/17/new-equipment-means-new-opportunities-for-womens-health/)
- [IAU World Higher Education Database – Adama General Hospital and Medical College (IAU-024631)](https://whed.net/institutions/IAU-024631)
- [FDRE Education and Training Authority – Accredited Institutions & Programs](https://accreditation.neta.gov.et)
- [EduRank – Best universities for medicine in Ethiopia](https://edurank.org/medicine/et/)