Eldoret is a principal city in western Kenya. It also serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. Lying south of the Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2100 metres above sea level at the airport to more than 2700 metres in nearby areas (7000–9000 feet). The population was 289,380 in the 2009 census,^[1][2] and it is currently the fastest growing town in Kenya. It is also the second largest urban centre in midwestern Kenya after Nakuru and the fifth largest urban centre in the country.

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Moi University is a public university located in Kesses, Uasin Gishu county, in western Kenya. It was established in 1984 by the Moi University Act of the Parliament of Kenya.

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The Moi University School of Medicine (MUSOM) is located at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) out-patient building at the MTRH-Moi University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) complex on Nandi road in Eldoret.

MUSOM was established in 1988 as a Faculty of Health Sciences, with the first group of students being admitted in 1990. The Faculty of Health Sciences was divided into School of Public Health (SPH) and School of Medicine (SOM) in July 2005 in accordance with the University strategic plan of 2005-2015. The School was later to give birth to School of Dentistry (SOD), the School of Nursing (SON) and the recently established Institute of Biomedical Informatics (IBMI).

Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) is the second National Referral Hospital in Kenya after Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). The Hospital is located along Nandi Road in Eldoret town (310 kilometres Northwest of Nairobi the capital city of Kenya), Uasin Gishu County, in the North Rift region of Western Kenya.