The department of Physiology is one of the departments that comprise the Faculty of Biomedical sciences and it offers training in the Physiology discipline to all health sciences courses offered by the school of health sciences at KIU. It is thus this department that will host the Bachelor of Science of Physiology whose curriculum we have revised. 

Physiology is the foundation of medical and other health related professions. It has progressed from the traditional cellular and systemic body functions to a more molecular and multicellular level, where mechanisms of actions of physiological processes are studied. Concurrently the discipline offers a deeper understanding of how the human body functions and gives an idea of what to expect when these functions become abnormal. The demand for specialist physiologists in East Africa and the African continent as a whole is of paramount importance. There is a gap that needs to be filled in as an attempt to train more qualified health professional students into properly practicing medical practitioners.