Lana1: Oga no vex but all this one na story. These ur posts were made this January.
U made ur 'relaxed mind' post in November during Lampard's homeymoon phase. Lampard did initial gra gra for you and you fell in love at first sight. Now wey his true colors don show, u wan dey change mouth.
jmaine: Great, so you now admit a good number of scientists in Nigeria are doing well research wise..
If you read my post you quoted, you will agree with me i have no qualms with a medical fellow without Phd teaching or lecturing in medical schools due to their Vast experience .. In addition, provided such a fellow is grounded solidly in research like what is obtainable in advanced countries...
Emphasis is placed on research output than just clinicals.. Cos research improves teaching techniques..
Now I will like to ask to clarify certain things..
1) Is the Fellowship programmes in Nigeria more research based or more clinicals ...?
Fellowship program everywhere in the world is about both. The ratio varies from country to country, and from specialty to specialty.
In a country like Nigeria (like in most countries of the world) it is only understandable that the ratio is tilted a bit more towards clinical than research. We don't have the benefit of millions of dollars in grants for research that some of the most advanced countries.
jmaine: Your second question is exactly what I am referring to..
Let me speak for biochemistry... You can't in anyway belittle the quality of researches from biochemistry.. They provide baseline info which provides the materials you use in practice
The among the top 5 internationally recognized scholars in Nigeria, 3 are distinguished Biochemists with over 300 publications in high impact journals... If you don't recognize that, the international community does..
If Nigeria was a country where there was a synergy between the industry and the academics, we would have been in a much better place in terms of transformation of good publications to solve niggly issues...
I will give you one instances I know of... I was in Unilag last year for a PhD presentation of senior personnel in LUTH, he was doing in his PhD in molecular biology to identify marker genes that will give early warning signals to gynecologist of pre-eclampsia susceptible patients..
This way, they can easily be identified during early pregnancy and managed.. He was seeking to provide these marker genes for the Nigerian population other than the usual practice of using data from Other regions of the world which might not really be relatable due to variance..
It was a fantastic research... We have numerous of such quality researches going on... Are you trying to say the findings from that research won't solve issues in the medical line with an updated info?
Is it until we win a Nobel prize before these efforts are recognized..
We have had great research in medical schools in Nigeria in the past with some led by consultants with PhD and others led by consultants without PhD. I finished from the same LUTH and i have examples of both. You don't need PhD before you have advancements in medical research. The problem is lack of good funding and the general collapse of the Nigerian educatuonal and health systems, not lack of PhDs.
Meanwhile you didn't answer my first question. List the countries that make it compulsory to have PhD before teaching in medical school.
There you have it. Don jazzy, please on behalf of all the relaxed Chelshit minds.........please forgive and forget.
Na omode dey do them. What an elder like you can see while crawling like Officer Wos the relaxed minds can't see even if they climb to the top spire of the citadel.
jmaine: To be fair to them, I appreciate and agree with their thrust that a Specialist consultant is more than capable to lecture/teach clinicals in the university due to their wealth of practical experience..
But they should not chose to totally belittle the significance of a PhD which is research focused ...
The essence of research is to solve current issues to make life easier, safer and more pleasurable.
So a research focused clinical specialist will be an added advantage to the scientific world..
Anyway, with time the superior arguement will win at the end of the day..
I don't think the aim is to belittle the PhD. The PhD can be a bonus for a lecturer in medical school but should not be a requirement. I have 2 questions.
1) How many countries in the world do you know that make it compulsory for lecturers in medical school to have PhD before teaching. if you know them, please name them.
2) All the PhDs that have been given in Engineering, Biochemistry, e.t.c in Nigeria, how have they solved our problems?
I am not saying there are not MD without PhD teaching, I am saying that if we do it here , heaven will not fall.
So if you know that there are doctors with fellowships who are teaching without PhD in developed countries like the U.S why do you want them to change the rules and make it compulsory to have PhD before teaching in medical school in Nigeria?
AK481: This is the almighty dean of Harvard’s college of medicine
You are obviously a slowpoke.
I said having a PhD is a bonus, which means some of the lecturers have it BUT it is not a requirement. Several of the department heads of this same Harvard do not have PhD.
How does posting the bio of the deans of faculty prove that all the lecturers in the U.S are required to have a PhD? Or did someone tell you that there are no lecturers in Nigerian Colleges of Medicine with PhDs?
nitrogen: Pogba can leave (though, I like the guy sha), his wahala is too much. Matic can still do another one or two season(s). Of course, depending on the formation, he can be on the bench. Having McTom, Fred and Bruno play many games together will do us good. Perreira can still stay, but Lingard should fuvk off!
We only need to add a striker to this team, and we are good.
So in conclusion, you want Pogba and Lingard to leave without any replacement?
hensben: Because Tottenham are not known for winning trophies, unlike Chelsea that need to strengthen to compete for titles. We need a quality CB to pair with Rudiger, a number 9(Abraham don’t deserve to be starting for Chelsea for now) and a left back.