DesignPoint:

Please NUC, agree to their terms.

You'll never really know how important they are until you have an emergency.
Abeg. It's not all of us that can afford to travel abroad for medical reasons

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.

blowjohn:




Which stupid rigors?
Can u compare a medical professor to other professors?
Ur comparing ordinary PhD to the rigors of becoming a professor in the clinical sciences?
What value does it add to teaching cos teaching of medical students is more of a practical thing if one wants results.

emapeteum:
In the first instance, physicians were not supposed to go with the title Doctor. The title is purely academic with the highest academic qualification to teach. Equating residency to Ph.D. is laughable. Quite sad that most physicians who are Professors in Nigerian Universities are not Ph.D. holders.
Correcting an error that has been the norm by NUC is not out of place and NMA should stop this blackmailing behavior. Whoever wants to criticize this should check history, please.

CSTR2:

I am a chemical engineer.

From 400 level -500 level, only lecturers with doctorate took us in school.
300 level is for lecturers with atleast a masters.
That is the policy.

How much more in medicine that deals with human life and need highly experienced teachers.

Gentle20love:
But that's the right thing to do now. Must everything in this country be solved with strike action?
How can you be a lecturing medical doctor without PhD. Common sense should tell us that it doesn't work that way. Mtcheeew

Gentle20love:
But that's the right thing to do now. Must everything in this country be solved with strike action?
How can you be a lecturing medical doctor without PhD. Common sense should tell us that it doesn't work that way. Mtcheeew

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.

allthingsgood:
iF they strike FG should sack all of them and hire capable hands idiats!

funmisticqueen2:
A residency of 5-6 years is more rigorous than a PhD.

CSTR2:
A doctor does not know about pathology than an anatomist with a PhD.

funmisticqueen2:
A residency of 5-6 years is more rigorous than a PhD.

yinchar:
What a bunch of illiterate medical doctors saying "PhD is cosmetics"

All over the world, a PhD or equivalent is required as a minimum qualification to join academic positions at lecturer level and above at any University.

A PhD exposes one to a narrower field but at greater depth and understanding.

Most medical doctors that are teaching our medical students are just holders of MBBS which is a Bachelors degree equivalent to having BTech or BSc in Engineering. However, with residency periods, we can subjectively agree/disagree its equivalent (but not) to Masters.

Irrespective of the aforementioned, to be a lecturer in a proper University you need to have a PhD, there is no shortcut about it.

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.

Cptflint:
We should be praying that academic union wins this ippis war with FG.. Because if they loss.. We won't be here talking about PhD and residency.. Because the teaching hospitals won't be paying us our honorary consultants salary..
It will be terrible.. Because we won't earn salary from the teaching hospital and the universities again...

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.

AK481:


They can continue becoming doctors without a PhD, but not lecturer in the university.

They can’t bend the rules for them.

worworbabe:


Everything is wrong with you lot who think you must comment under every post. Do you know what Residency training is?

Oracle23:



Those doctors spend 6 years to get BSc n MSc, they spend 4 - 6 years as resident doctors to become consultants, it would be evil for them to need to spend another 4 - 6 years to get a PhD

Correcto:
Honestly Nigerian Doctors are becoming too political than scientific. They getting full of themselves, thereby displaying clear stupidity.

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.

Jokerman:


So doctors can be fraudulent as well??

blowjohn:


How many doctors do we have in the country?
How many consultants?
How many want to teach?
Doctors should get PhD when they dont even have time for themselves becos of hospital work

edoairways:

Not in academic field. Those doctors are aware infact some had pursue their PhD but many choose to be adamant to change

NubianX:



Ignorance is a disease, and that's what you just displayed here. Not even in US Ivy league institutions are general discipline certifications ever equated with the noble, hierarchically progressive medical education. The years of training for a typical medical specialty or fellowship are even more than that of common discipline doctorate.

If this RUBBISH is allowed, even a medical student can easily bag a PhD while still an undergrad...

Reason:
1. Most PhDs today can be bagged online and
2. Medical students are pragmatically smarter than other category of students.

NUC or Anybody wonders why medical school grades are left at just Pass/Fail and not the elementary A, B, C, D & F obtained in other purely academic disciplines?

Obeghare:

Do you also know the rigors involved in becoming a fellow of of either the national postgraduate medical college of Nigeria or that of West Africa. Taking over 5 to 8 years to complete. Infact a fresh university medically trained doctor should be doing his PhD directly

Ghostmode2two:
If the lecturing medical doctors don't want to obtain their PhD they can leave the classroom and return to the treatment room

obi4eze:


Maybe NUC actually goofed by allowing them lecture and become Professors without PhD in the past but it seems they realized their error.

The consultants want to continue becoming Professors without PhD. I laugh! Do they actually know the rigors of becoming a PhD holder?
They are not bigger than NUC that regulates them so if NUC says they cant become Professors without PhD then they should either join their colleagues who go on to acquire PhD or get out.