"  The undergraduate medical programme at Bayero University, Kano has adopted a community oriented and community-based educational philosophy for the training of its doctors. The objectives are:-

a. To promote medical personnel with sound knowledge in Physiological, Anatomical and histology capable of understanding various diseases;

b. To train medical officers with in-depth knowledge of therapeutics with ability to determine drug actions in their patients;

c. To produce clinicians capable of understanding diseases and disease manifestations using laboratory and pathological skills and knowledge, including the determination of the effect of diseases on the lives of individuals;

d. To train medical officers with sound knowledge and understanding of causes of diseases and other public health challenges to provide solutions based on statistical data;

e. To produce medical officers with ethical principles of the medical profession in attending diverse ethical and multicultural setting of the Nigerian Nation and other cultures;

f. To inculcate into the medical officers, the spirit of team work and inter disciplinary approach to medical practice; and

g. To produce medical officers with sound theoretical knowledge and skills capable of undertaking research in various elds of the medical discipline. 
 
The training has been designed in such a way that doctors produced from Bayero University, Kano will be well equipped and motivated to practice as primary care physicians in the urban and rural areas of Nigeria. They will also possess a sound foundation for further/continuing training in the various medical specialties through the adoption of problem-based learning and self-directional educational philosophy. In order to achieve this philosophy the faculty will work closely with staff of the Federal and State Ministries of Health in the planning and execution of its Faculty programmes. The establishment of the community-based medical education and services (CBME & SP) Programme in the Faculty is a major step in the implementation of the Faculty philosophy in medical education. Additionally, the Faculty of Clinical Scineces of Bayero University offers a wide range of postgraduate programmes (MSc & PhD)domicilled in its departments and others in collaboration with research centers within the College of Health Sciences. The Faculty also provides resource persons for the residency training in all core medical and surgical specialties of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital."