Ambrose Alli University Reacts To Report Of Forcing Medical Students To Sign Undertaking Extending Their Programme


The Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, has denied that the University's College of Medicine compelled its students to sign an undertaking of continued studentship due to unavailability of instructional and technical facilities to train medical students.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the university reportedly compelled its 300-level Medicine and Surgery students to sign an undertaking to continue to pay school fees for an additional 18-month programme while they wait for available slots to progress to 400-level.

The stringent undertaking, a copy of which SaharaReporters obtained on Wednesday, had stipulated that after completing Part 1 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Professional Examinations, students must undertake an 18-month intercalated Science programme in Anatomy or Physiology within the College of Medicine.

But reacting in an official statement signed by the University's Head of Corporate Communications and Protocol, Otunba Aladenika, the university management explained that the undertaking was a product of understanding between the Management of the Medical College, the concerned students and the body of parents on how best to address a lingering status of the affected students within the University which was brought to the attention of the present University Management.

According to him, "There are about 419 (Four Hundred and nineteen) students in the pre-clinical programme in the University who are products of irregular admission by previous University Administration.

"The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) is unable to index them because our admission quota for the medical programme has long been filled up due to the 'irregular admission' reason given above."

Aladenika further explained that "Before these students can have space in the Clinical training phase of the medical programme, they will have to wait for between 8 to 10 years.

"The Medical Council had advised the College Management to send these students away to other programmes where there are spaces. However, after a series of pleas and meetings between the College Management and the students as well as some parents, agreements were reached to grant a kind of soft landing for these students.

"The students said they were ready to wait for as long as it would require for them to start their clinical programme. Agreements reached with the students were as follows:

"That they be allowed to write their 1st professional exams and then use the result to transfer to clinical programmes in other Universities if they pass the exams.

"Those who are unable to transfer should be transferred to other related programmes in the College of Medicine such as Human Anatomy and Human Physiology.

"After obtaining a degree in either Human Anatomy and Human Physiology, they would be given priority whenever there are spaces in the clinical programme.

"The students are to ensure that they pay their fees during this bridging period."

He stated that when these agreements were reported verbally to the University Management and the Special Intervention Team, the College Management was advised to put the "agreement into writing and ensure that the students have input in this as well as sign an undertaking to give proper backing to that effect so as to guard against any form of arbitrariness, future denial, blackmail or recant."

This according to the spokesman was supposed to be a last-ditch effort to salvage their ambition of becoming medical doctors.

The Head Corporate Communications and Protocol, further said, "The arrangement offers the affected students the opportunity of having two degrees upon graduation.

"It may also interest you to know that while detractors, enemies of growth and progress of the students and the University are attempting to make a mountain out of a molehill, the affected students have signed the undertaking freely and willingly, and their programme is making progress. The First Professional exams have since commenced,” Aladenika said.

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I wanted to click the link but

since the person above me said he's not going to click the link...

the person commenting below me will click the link...

No be on read more...
MUMU

AskProf:


La click, la...

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#in Small Doctor's voice#

I also wanted to click on the link, but you guys have discouraged me.

But I strongly believe the person below me will click on the link.

The person below me, don't disappoint us pls.

You can't cajole us to click

Why not just post the details here, if anyone feels like digging deep then it's up to them to click.

Under BAT, everything's upside down...

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Make we ferry dem both into LAB make we Test fr Acting agent & reacting Agent

Hmmmmmm

Yeah, the explanation makes sense

Ok

I won't click either 😂

In lame man's terms?

This is serious and uncalled for. the state government should wade into this as soon as possible or what are they waiting for?

Needles...if BAT can impose himself on Nigerians..I don't see the reason for the explanation..forced them to sign the goddamn papers afterall tinubu has forced all of us to spend more money on fuel and foodstuffs

Funny world.

419 irregular students.

Wonderful.

I wanted to click the link too but I discovered it's all vanity maybe the next person will do that for us.

Unending Reacts

everywhere have scattered

I guess he finally updated everything here, because me i no go ever click any link that is directed outside this platform.

Nawa o... Naso we go dey?

Uhm . Okay. No qualms, they don't want what previously befell on Baze university when they admitted students more than their quota to affect them so they had to start making amendments.

So the explanation is well justified.

Of course, wetin them go do before? them go deny am noni.

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What's the punishment for the ' previous administration ' that granted them the irregular admission?

The students and their parents should even be the ones to sue the school management for this waste of time and resources and of course, the trauma.

I wish to click the link, but I needed to follow the yoruba adage that says the horse coming behind will always follow the footsteps of the one ahead....

if u claim "these students" were part of and agreed these stringent terms why are they baffled, protesting and reporting it.

I believe the school.
People can be mischievous because they know once you bring something to the sm and put out a narrative,many people don't bother to ask questions to know the truth.

419 Parents for University abi PTA E go reach everybody


Tinubu will laughing

Tinubu should force all yoruba men to sign Hardship Undertaking never to complain