
Kenya Medical Training Collage is one of the oldest medical schools in Kenya offering various courses to students across the country.
One of the prestigious courses offered there is Higher National Diplomas. HND courses are offered to those students who have gone through vigorous diploma training for three years in various specialities and have practiced their craft for at least two years in busy Hospitals across the country. They must also be fully licensed by their various professional bodies in the republic of Kenya.
For one to be admitted to Kenya Medical Training college as a HND student. He or she must have a secondary school examination certificate, a photo of their national identity card, the picture of their professional certificates( diploma certificates)
They then move to create a Portal at Kenya Medical Training college admission portal( click here for the portal path). Here, they need to have a birth certificate number or identification number. The email address and a phone number that they will be communicated to.
The HND are spread across different professions namely;
- Clinical Officers – Clinical Medicine.
- Nurses- Nursing
- Medical Laboratory technician/ Officers- Medical Laboratory course
- Trauma and Medicine technicians- trauma medicine
- Nutritionist- Nutrition studies
- Morticians- mortuary science
- Physiotherapists- physiotherapy studies.
- Occupational Therapist – occupational therapy studies.

HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA FOR CLINICAL OFFICERS.
This is strictly for clinical Officers, those who did clinical medicine. Proceeded to their internship and are licensed with two years working experience.
Here is the list of the HND for clinical Officers at KMTC.
- Higher National Diploma Reproductive Health.
- Higher National Diploma Paediatric And Child Heath
- Higher National Diploma Renal Heath
- Higher National Diploma Psychiatric and Mental Health
- Higher National Diploma Opthalmology and surgery
- Higher National Diploma Virology and skin disease.
- Higher National Diploma in Epidemiology among others. Click here to see the full list of the courses.

Higher National Diplomas Offered At KMTC For Nurses.
Just like clinical Officers. Nurses must have qualified for the diploma training. The training takes about 3 to 3 and half years with vigorous training at hospital and in class.
Click Here To apply for an HND diploma in nursing.
Here are the courses.
- Critical Nursing Care
- Peri – Operative Nursing
- Paediatric Nursing
- Palliative Care
- Ophthalmic Care Nursing
- Oncology Nursing
- Anaesthetic

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