₦airaland Forum

RisenPhoenix:
It is not about pay. It is about when one spends 20 years in several higher institutions; and millions of naira; to attain the highest possible qualification in one's field, and then another 20 years post qualification, the government comes out of the blue and tells him that he is not really qualified and needs to go back to school to qualify for the same job he has been doing for half of his life.

Aptly captured

Kolping:
NUC Develops Academic Postgraduate Programmes in Medicine
25 June 2018

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/nuc-develops-academic-postgraduate-programmes-in-medicine/

In its bid to meet the academic postgraduate requirements of Nigerian University System, the National Universities Commission (NUC), has developed academic postgraduate programmes in medicine. The programme is designed to award Masters, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Medicine (MD).

The Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR, FNAL highlighted the general need to overhaul the medical curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

He said this at a meeting with some Deans of Post Graduate schools and Provosts of Colleges of Medicine of Nigerian Universities last Wednesday in the Commission.

In his address, the Executive Secretary stressed the need to enhance and refresh the medical profession, hence the decision by the Commission to assemble experts in the medical profession to develop the curriculum which include graduates of Medicine and Dentistry who were lecturers currently on their fellowship, could now undertake their PhD concurrently with some concession.

He said it was necessary to re-introduce the option of MD by publication to provide opportunity for many Professors to keep contributing new knowledge for as long as they wanted without the rigors of interfacing with any supervisor.

Professor Rasheed informed the meeting that the PhD was not a replacement of the fellowship training in the medical field but an option to the medical profession as a whole. It would henceforth be a pre-requisite for any medical professional that wanted to pursue the teaching career.

He explained that the said doctorate degree was strictly for the graduates of medicine and not for other science disciplines which could be acquired not only through thesis but also through publications in high impact journals.

He stressed that every scholar shall publish a minimum of 5 articles on the same topic and the publication date must not be earlier than the date of registration for the programme.

The 3 categories of people that would be allowed to get a PhD included:

1. Those that must have enrolled in the fellowship programme of either the national or West African medical schools and successfully passed the part one of either or both and embark on the part 2 without a Masters degree can be allowed to start their part 2 and enroll for a PhD too. The student should be expected to work on the 2 projects at the same time but can be given a very good concession from the National Post Graduate Medical College to serve as incentive.

He added that if a student registered for fellowship in medical college and he/she completed the PhD before he/she submit himself for the final exam in Lagos and had successfully defended the PhD thesis, the medical college could examine him on several other issues but waive the thesis requirement and adopt the PhD thesis in its place.

2. Those Fellows who want to have a PhD in addition to other qualifications could register for the programme without any requirements or course work, but would be required to write a thesis within specified period under the supervision of a very reliable lecturer.

3. And those who were not interested in becoming fellows but have very good MBBS degrees but want an MSc and a PhD.

The Executive Secretary also commended [b]the leadership of MDCN (Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria) [/b]for sheathing their swords and joining in the intense discussions on matters that they were very passionate about and advised that coming together to develop the health sector was more important than being at loggerheads, as NUC and other professional bodies were all geared at championing the same course.

He also informed them that there was need for MDCN and NUC to meet and discuss appropriate undergraduate admission quota for colleges of medicine.

He expressed his gratitude to all of them present on their doggedness at maintaining a very impressive standard in the medical education.

In his speech, the Director, Directorate of Academic Planning, Dr. Gidado B. Kumo, said that the meeting with Deans of Post Graduate schools and Provosts of Colleges of Medicine in Nigerian Universities was very necessary because they were authorities in the matter and had to be kept abreast of any development on issues pertaining to requirements for admission into any degree awarding programme.

He said the Commission needed to discuss with them as stakeholders to arrest any area of difficulty that a student might come across in his university in the pursuit of his PhD and also make them the Commission’s ambassadors when matters arise in their respective university Senates.

The Executive Secretary, Medical Schools for Africa and Provost, University of Ibadan Medical School, Professor E. Oluwabunmi Olapade – Olaopa on behalf of the Deans and Provosts present, thanked the Executive Secretary, NUC for introducing the doctor of medicine MD option into the medical practice in Nigeria. He agreed that medical education was a continuum and therefore a PhD for the medical school was very important in order to reverse the dearth of doctors in the society and keep the system as fresh as possible.

He added that though research was important, of greater importance was establishing a link between the research from the PhDs and the clinical medicine, to know the impact of your research clinically.

He hoped that the standard of the qualification would be of high quality and urged the lecturers to continuously participate in the supervision of the doctorate thesis, regardless of whether they belonged to the clinical field or basic sciences, to promote synergy and continuous training that will ensure the profession boasts of more doctors with research degrees.

Professor Oluwabunmi particularly stressed the need to keep doctors in-country and provide them with the same degrees they go to seek in other countries. While keeping them busy with the PhD and MD degrees, they should be encouraged to write publications and keep adding knowledge and value to the medical field. This, he said would drive the development of effective health systems nationwide.

Present at the meeting were Provosts of some Colleges of Medicine and some Deans of Post Graduate Schools of Nigerian universities. The NUC Team included, Dr. Gidado Bello Kumo, Pharmacist Audu, Mrs. Nwosu and other staff of the Directorate of Academic Planning.

So NUC is stylishly succumbing. Nonsense people

Pregnancy can only be detected after a missed period, that's is after one full month after her last period.

She's way smarter than you OP

0m0nnakoda:
Please if you have something to say say it

You have not addressed the issues and I wonder whether you have comprehension difficulties.

What has your cut and paste got to do with what I wrote.

I said Fellowships are NOT ENOUGH to become a Professor
Is a Professor the same as a Lecturer?

Permit me to rephrase

The fellowship programme which spans 5 to 10yrs is the only requirement worldwide to become a lecturer and a professor in medicine

0m0nnakoda:
You are the one saying what you do not know.
Also you are mixing things up.

Teaching medical students and becoming a Professor of medicine are very different things

Fellowships is not sufficient to become a Professor your claim is wrong.
That is not even the case in Nigeria and never has been.
Professors are required to obtain a doctorate either Phd or MD as well as fulfilling research/publication requirements.
Those with Fellowships who teach clinical students are not even employees of the University in most cases and are not on a pathway to becoming a Professor

Here you go

trilobite:
In those countries you mentioned, there is an emphasis on research with or without a PhD.

Nigerian consultants have never felt the need to research, they all feel work experience quantifies as research.

The NUC is trying to nip this thinking in the bud by insisting on research experience via the PhD route.
Only place the NUC goofed is insisting on using only the PhD, they could just insist on qualified teachers having specified number of top research publications before being qualified as teachers

Research done by medical doctors alone dwarfs all other specialists in Nigerian academic sphere.
4icu and webometrics has all the stats bared open.

Well. ......

Correcto:
Now it is a requirement, deal with it

In all arguments ,be logical. Nigeria which has never been the pacesetter in any educational or scientific endeavour, now wants to be the ones to set standards for how medical university education should be world-wide? Even drifting fro UK, US and European standards?

Well ,from your posts you're likely a johesu apologist or an intense doctor hater. Enjoy your life.

Correcto:
How hard is it for you to understand that in Nigeria Phd is a requirement?

It had never been for doctors. Never.

AMOTEKUN2023:
PhD is the requirement for teaching so stop saying gibberish

Sodiquinone:
If u must lecture get a PhD...but the Doctors will want a differently law,with time they will say a consultant should be a professor automatically because he has spent 6 extral years in residency

0m0nnakoda:
Those Consultants who want to be professors MUST have doctorates. That is not even up for debate so what is clear is most antagonists have no understanding of the issues.
Over 90% of those who teach medical students in clinical years have no formal relationships with the Medical School/universities.
They are the ones, the ONLY ONES( or other doctors under their supervision ) who teach medical how to listen to the chest ,to examine ,the ,abdomen,deliver babies etc.
A Phd who is not a Fellow CANNOT do that in a teaching or General patient. A Phd who is not a Fellow CANNOT have an unsupervised relationship with a patient in a teaching Hospital .
Such a PhD CANNOT do unsupervised teaching on a ward or outpatient clinics and MUST work Under a Fellow.
What happens in Lecture theatres is a complete role reversal but clinical medicine happens in the Labour room not the Lecture theatres

Stop saying what you don't know.

Medical doctors worldwide has never required PhD for teaching clinical medicine. Not even in in the US, UK or other climes.(except in in university in Uganda where they award PhD automatically when you complete your fellowship. The fellowship programme which spans 5 to 10yrs is the only requirement worldwide to become a professor in medicine

itsme01:
he is an officer meaning he earns as high as 200 - 250 if he is within ASP - DSP bracket so what is special in a 2001 Toyota Highlander SUV that you can get for 1.5m.. go to states like Oyo , Lagos and see what SARS operatives really drive.. Benz , and top range new model Toyotas ... that guy is not with SARS but just a regular divissional police harassing people claiming SARS


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What bloody Officer? This other rank?
As if you don't know that Nigerians call everyone on uniform as officer

Koginaija:
As a patriotic nigerian,you are supose to defend your president and not insult him >:

As a patriotic Nigerian you should defend your country not your president.

TissuePaper:
Dammmmn Nigggaaar

I don't support this VIO shit, I get three cars for road wey I dey use do Uber

Abeg make una free us real niggars

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You are a very terrible human. Didn't you support the recent okada and Keke ban?!

Don't worry, there's enough injustice to go round for everybody.

Sirjamo:
Every region should form their own Amotekun. Please Nigerians, let us stop putting this on Buhari alone; he can only work with what is available to him in terms of security structure and their funding capacity. We need to prevail on our law makers to put security on the concurrent list so that government at all level can share the responsibilities.

Every time a thing like this happens, I always tell people that Nigeria does not have the capacity to secure itself with our current security structure and extremely poor defence budget. Even if Buhari leaves and we have another president, with our 200 million people scattered across 932 000 kmq, and our defence budget remains a patry 2 billion dollars,the security challenge will still persist.

The defense budget is way far more than enough.

If you ever had cause to work with the Army like I did before migrating,you'll know that they are the den of corruption in Nigeria.

Lafiya Dole? You know how much is spent in fighting insurgency there? Do you know much Commanding Officers get from the north East?

Abdulaaleem:
my gionee p7 is android 7.0 but the feature is missing.. no such as emergency info

The likely reason is because some phone manufacturers have their custom UI (eg Gionee's Amigo OS, Samsung's touchwiz and OneUI, HTC sense UI) which strips some functionalities off .


That why I always endeavour to buy an unlockable phone,then modify my ROM to have the best experience.

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr

Nice

But as a real niggarrr
I think they should introduce "guest user" on our devices

I mean our devices should be programmed in such a way that strangers can acces it even when it is locked but the access should be restricted to some certain functions of the phone

You are a learner. It has been on Android since 6.0. you just have to modify it a bit to allow a locked phone

mosho2good:
[s] remember who used to help you out in exam Hall..
Remember that most of the exams we wrote back then was not just about your intellectual effort but the collective efforts of your fellow classmates.
Just remember how we used to fight for each other and even answered present for each other in our absence in class. [/s]

ONE Love ��

This right here is bullshit. You guys can do away with this entitlement mentality

You're even glorifying illegality and the likes..

solmusdesigns:
and so? did the lady complain? or isnt University degree a 3 years program until silly Nigerian government added useless IT atachment

How stupid can one get?

Annie939:
who will take care of there Child? the judgement is too harsh they should reversed it, at least prison will be better than death sentence

Sometimes you vent without thinking with your brain. Will she take care of the child if she's in prison?

Who needs state postal codes?

It is like sending a parcel and say it is to be sent to Lagos state, instead of a particular area. Does it make sense? Do you guys post stuffs just for the sake of posting?.


Postal codes are meant to delineate areas served by a particular post office. For example a post office might serve 2 LGA's , the 2 LGA will have one Postal Code. In the same vein there might be 2 postal codes for different areas in the same LGA especially for a large LGA.

If you aren't posting the list for all LGA's then it's useless

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
You are a real niggarrr
Na the beginning of huzzling and mid phase na im wahalar dey. Once you don master the huzzle to conquer the struggle at the beginning then your money go dey grow like grass
And also try not to always work hard but also huzzle smart

At this beginning ehnnn. Me nor dey sleep at all. You see the pictures below. Na my huzzling ground be that(santum)
Once i enter this my santum ( inner room in the house where you huzzle only) i nor dey sleep all night. As i dey burn the weed, I dey follow up with alcohol.

You're even a 100level uniben student? I can see the physics 102 textbook by oni-ojo. Such memories.

Interesting story

Skmoda360:
Who dey use paracetamol before? Wetin do panadol? I will go for panadol anyday if I'm having headache.

Panadol is simply a brand of paracetamol.

MANNNABBQGRILLS:
MANNNABBQGRILLS:
I AM FELIX DAV TERUNGWA a.k.a , I RESIDE IN BENUE STATE AND ON NAIRALAND (always online 2/4/7).
I AM A PART OF A GROUP OF MEDIA PERSONNELS THAT SELL A POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE PRESIDENT TO UNSUSPECTING ZOMBIES.
I HAVE SOLD MY FUTURE AND THAT OF MY UNBORN GENERATION FOR A MEAGRE 30K AND A FREE CAMPAIGN T-SHIRT.

wtf was this? And you deleted the post?

Felixamos:
Lol... Funny somebody.. If you've been following my posts, you would have observed that I sometimes address both male and female with "dear" especially when I'm correcting them so I'm also chasing after the attention of the males? Btw I only used dear so she dosent feel too bad about her mistake or my correction and you could see the result... She replied and acknowledged she made a mistake.. If I had corrected her with insults like your type did you think she would have responded back with laughter?

Follow your posts line a celebrity that you are? No thanks.
For your information, dear isn't an appropriate prefix for addressing strangers.
I will pass on the girl

Bye

ArticleBeast:
Because he call out your foolishness, you tagged him pussy hunters. Your sisters are they dumb? I wouldn't be surprised if you are one of those alpha male gangs running around

He called somebody out ,not me.

By the way, do you address a stranger online as "dear" if you're not chasing their attention?

Ooh, I'm of the opinion that most (emphasis on most) of these Nairaland girls are very very dumb ;my personal opinion.

Thorby:
And you are above mistakes. Brainy that graduated with first class.

My friend swerve. Na so by mistake you go forget your salary when you just withdraw for store. Foolish mistake.

rtdCivilservant:
Hi pretty

See them foolish pussy hunters!

Spits

Beautiful nonsense. Porn, even though is an undesirable and frowned upon vice, isn't the reason for any youths unproductivity. Nigeria isn't the biggest consumer of porn worldwide, other countries indulge and are doing better than us. At the same time, people masturbate and still reach their career peaks.

Porn and the likes aren't the factors responsible for the lack of basic social amenities, jobs and opportunities.

You see, your emphasis is on a very unnecessary vice. It's akin to promoting religiosity in a morally bankrupt nation as Nigeria.

Felixamos:
That's a very stupid comment.. Didn't you see the part where she wrote that she didn't see the remaining zeros? Btw maybe the girls you've met are dumb but don't generilse it.. I've met some really dumb and stupid guys but does that give me the right to say all men are dumb? Please be guided..

Yours is an even "stupider" comment. You're seeing 3 million written in words and then 3,250,000 in digits and you're still trying to defend her crass stupidity.

Even if she were dyslexic, would she miss the amount in words? Dumb people everywhere, with pussy hunters to the defence. Dear,my àss.

Spits

isco10:
Dy rarely ship power banks to Nigeria.
Just buy locally from Just2endowed2, Macbeyland or optimised

Thanks

Seems this story was true. He was just arrested in the us for money laundering

http://thestreetjournal.org/2019/12/serving-general-arrested-as-us-authorities-uncover-16m-in-wifes-account/

Lalasticlala come and see big Nigerian snake o