The establishment of the College of Public Health and Medical Sciences of Jimma University (JU) can be traced back to 1983 G.C. with the birth of the then Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (JIHS). The very beginning of the establishment of JIHS is marked as a continuation of the Ras Desta Damtew Health Assistant Training School established in 1967 by the Ethio-Netherlands health project in the premises of Jimma Hospital. On this foundation, the School of Nursing was established in 1983.

UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF CBE Posted Thu, 06/04/2009 - 14:52 Student activities are related to planned educational goals and objectives the activities are introduced very early in the educational programmed and continue throughout the educational process The activates are viewed not as a peripheral or casual experience but as standard integral and continual educational process The student s work during train in is a real work that is related to their educational needs and also forms part of the requirement for obtaining a degree