₦airaland Forum

[quote author=Jman06 post=86538748]OK... I understand your plight.
Biochem is good for someone who intends going into research and the academia. In Nigeria however, the course has little job opportunities. The only readily available job is lecturing and that is if one has done masters and PhD. The fewer jobs available in oil and gas industries and co are usually reserved for children of the rich and highly connected.
Also, mind you that almost all universities in Nigeria offer biochemistry and turn out many graduates into the labour market on yearly basis thus worsening the competition for the few available jobs.

PLEASE BIOCHEMISTRY IS NOT ALMOST THE SAME THING AS PHARMACY. Those that say that speak out of gross ignorance!
Pharmacy consists of six departments viz Pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical microbiology, pharmacognosy and clinical pharmacy. The course is very didactic and highly demanding. In 200level, they offer biochemistry (everything I did at BSc level including practicals), physiology, Anatomy and other pharmacy courses including pharm maths).

In uniben for instance where they offer the course as pharmD, the training is very rigorous as they combine pharmaceutical sciences with intense clinical exposures(they study all disease conditions, patients assessment and counseling, clinical clerkship etc) which enables graduates to help physicians in clinical settings to identify and proffer solutions to drug-related problems through patients interview and assessment.

Having stated the above, I'll encourage you to pursue your dream of studying pharmacy because in honesty, the course is rewarding and opens a lot of opportunities in many aspects of pharmacy practice such as hospital pharmacy, industrial pharmacy, community pharmacy, regulatory affairs pharmacy, academic pharmacy, military pharmacy, ambulatory pharmacy etc. If you are interested in research, pharmacy would provide you more options of research areas to delve into. Some uninformed people look down on community pharmacy, but that is the cash cow of the profession! Some refer to it as "store" and stuff like that, but it all depends on how one packages one's business. There are some community pharmacies with breathtaking arrangement such that when you enter the place, you'll love working there.

In what level are you already in biochem? If you're still in 100level, I'll advise you to prepare well and write JAMB again, this time around choose a school like uniben that offers pharmacy. But if you're already in say 300level, I'll advise that you finish biochem and then apply for direct entry into pharmacy. You'll enjoy pharmacy but you seriously need to work hard!

I wish you the very best of luck.

[/Fellow basic medicine graduate, such as biochemist, physiologist, anatomist, microbiologist ...
Is this how we are going to be folding our hand and take no move on the highest rate of not getting better job in our dear country Nigeria by allowing some field to continue cheating on us. For how long are we go to continue with this our silent, accepting that some department that come across our department and we also come across their department should be our dictator when it comes to job opportunity because 80% of us saw this course as an alternative to so call clinical medicine what is now our testimony now?
Why did we now see ourselves like a slave to this clinical medicine and we now need to hide our degree and apply as an O level holder before we can work in hospital as health or x ray attendance forgotten that we are graduate?
Why can we call on the government to look into it because all this our hospital have laboratory in which the have to run biochemical, microbiology, anatomy and physiological examination.
Why can we ask whose field is working in the above mentioned laboratory when we the graduate of those field were not included in the recruitment Calder form when ever there is hospital requirement form is out?
Why can we call on the NUC to remove our courses from clinical medicine and explain to them that they have render us jobless and if they need our help they should call on us.
If NUC and Government say it will not meet with world academic standard, why can we tell them is the world standard say we should be treated when it come to job opportunity?
Please let put-on this fight so that we can enjoy our struggles in schools, enjoy our skills and knowledge.
Let use all our social media platform and any other platform let us express our feeling on all the NUC, state and federal government platform and let other that see it comment too then they we take us serious but if we are still ok with teaching of secondary schools biology, chemistry, agricultural science, physics let us keep mute. Thanks]

Fellow basic medicine graduate, such as biochemist, physiologist, anatomist, microbiologist ...
Is this how we are going to be folding our hand and take no move on the highest rate of not getting better job in our dear country Nigeria by allowing some field to continue cheating on us. For how long are we go to continue with this our silent, accepting that some department that come across our department and we also come across their department should be our dictator when it comes to job opportunity because 80% of us saw this course as an alternative to so call clinical medicine what is now our testimony now?
Why did we now see ourselves like a slave to this clinical medicine and we now need to hide our degree and apply as an O level holder before we can work in hospital as health or x ray attendance forgotten that we are graduate?
Why can we call on the government to look into it because all this our hospital have laboratory in which the have to run biochemical, microbiology, anatomy and physiological examination.
Why can we ask whose field is working in the above mentioned laboratory when we the graduate of those field were not included in the recruitment Calder form when ever there is hospital requirement form is out?
Why can we call on the NUC to remove our courses from clinical medicine and explain to them that they have render us jobless and if they need our help they should call on us.
If NUC and Government say it will not meet with world academic standard, why can we tell them is the world standard say we should be treated when it come to job opportunity?
Please let put-on this fight so that we can enjoy our struggles in schools, enjoy our skills and knowledge.
Let use all our social media platform and any other platform let us express our feeling on all the NUC, state and federal government platform and let other that see it comment too then they we take us serious but if we are still ok with teaching of secondary schools biology, chemistry, agricultural science, physics let us keep mute. Thanks

ayswags:
lol,I didn't even bother stressing myself on any medicals since I know I am never gonna use it.If at all I ever fall sick,it's either I treat myself or I just go back home.I can't stand those rude and mannerless nurses at the school clinic.I dashed inhurd the 5k for medicals.

Come to think of it even some of my friends who completed theirs were always asked to buy drugs with their own money whenever they visit the clinic for any slight illness.

So what's the essence of the medicals?

plz dnt try wht u just wrt bcoz u are playin wit ur Id card in wich u maynt wrt som test nd exam witout it plz I beg u do it nw b4 it wil afet ur studies

4 dos dt as ben givn admison @funaab we say congrtn nd 4 dos dt stil expectn testimony shal b urs ijn. I com 2 u dt as u abt 2 resum 2 funaab dia is an organiztn wich is awatin of u, ready 2 b of hep moraly, Spiritualy, acedamicaly, mentaly e t c, in wich I nw some of u av ben doin b4 wich wil hep u 2 continue on campus nd some av heard of it b4 in wich u can join us, the name of d organizatn is THE BOYS' BRIGADE NIG propos cadet company funaab abk. We shal b expectn u as u resum. Tanks so much

Plz am @colnas on wed, I lost some of my cresential dos somebody hep find it my name is OLANIYI BLESSING ABIODUN d documnt comprises of birth certificate, evidenz of aveptance payment, LG identifictn, primary skul testimonial, NECO result, NATIONAL DIPLOMA result, jamb slip print out, providenz admition ofer plz if any 1 found it plz contat 07068432759 or blessingsax 2go plz nd plz

Hapy nw yr 2 u all plz can I nw d scrnin requirment 4 DE studnt

Tanks 4 ur reply av saw d certificate of reg of birth isued by local govt can I use dt as birth cerficat instead of d 1 NPC isued

Plz am D E student did I ned testimonial 4 d screnin

Plz can I use church birth cetificat bcoz d 1 gvn 2 me by NPC as ben lost nd all my atempt 2 get isn't workin nd I can get d church birth certificate plz I ned quik ansa

Plz I wnt 2 nw if I can use church birth certificat bcoz av lost it d 1 cencus nd all my efot 2 get it bak 4rm dia ofiz is lyk nt dt workin plz I ned quik ansa

Can som1 hep me find out if funaab admit ND SLT.4dirett entry 2 study biochem

I wnt 2 funaab 4 pjamb 4m 2day bt is nt out nd d man dt atend 2 me @microfinac said d 4m is availabu dt dy avnt conclud amont dy wil sold it so he said it wil b nxt wk if dy wil sale it

I wnt 2 funaab 4 pjamb 4m 2day bt is nt out nd d man d atend 2 me @microfinac said d 4m is availabu dt dy avnt conclud amont dy wil sold it so he said it wil b nxt wk if dy wil sale it

Pls I study slt ND distn grade I av my olevel nd I wnt 2 aply 4 biochem @funaab can dy ofer me