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The average time to finish medical school in Nigeria from year 1 is 7 years. (ASUU, NMA, ARD, JOHESU strike inclusive)

Housemanship is compulsory to be eligible for the MBBS degree. In other words, you cannot have MBBS without housemanship. Totals - 8 it 9 years, depending on how fast you get a place to do housemanship.



You will go for youth service to be eligible for permanent registration.

Total - 9 or 10 years.


Let's now add 5 years (ASUU strike inclusive)of undergraduate education in Anatomy/Biochemistry/Physiology/Microbiology etc


We're not ready for such policies.

I for don finish school since May, now it's next year. Because we don't have an educational system that works. It doesn't breed maturity. You'll end up having frustrated doctors that have been wearied by unecessary length of training.

Vcojuro:
Dr Lomax shows an high level of intelligence and maturity. Nice observation doc.

I am the least of my brethren.
Happy Sunday

jargo89:
Not to belittle ur opinion, buh I tink it does mk sense. Having an experience b4 med school can only but be of help. Most pple go into med school, not avin an idea how to survive in a univeristy, lest a medical skul. This policy is used in the US and its allowing them produce more mature med practitioners. I might be biased tho (I passed through that route) but it has only been beneficial. Thank u

You're biased in my opinion. I've noticed that utme candidates have a smoother medical school journey than those that have had a first degree. It doesn't mean they are immune from issues. First degree students usually feel they've seen it all. Believe me, that mentality is counterproductive. it's the same mentality repeat students have when repeating a class- seeing it all. And that's why they keep having issues.

Medical school training is enough to instill the foundation of maturity. It's not just about passing exams. Those that know, know.

Happy Sunday

The last thing medical and dental students should do is create rivalry among themselves for any reason. Be grateful you have an opportunity to be useful to humanity and yourself, irrespective of where it is done. Few years into the system you'll realize the challenges facing the Nigerian doctor is enormous. The wahala plenty. One post would not be enough to enumerate the issues. The least we can do for ourselves is to be united and sustain a common interest so that the profession will be preserved.

We're very backward in this place. The masses don't like you. They only like you when they are ill, and you're bound by oath to help them. If you're make any mistake, nobody would want to know whether you are Harvard or ANSU, they will stone you with their words.

We need to protect our interest collectively, and it should be fostered at the level of our medical training so we maintain the tempo when we're done. The future of healthcare in this country lies in your hands. A lot of people don't care( including your patients) but they would blame you if something goes wrong. Let's just try not to allow the little differences outweigh the higher purpose.

Khan1993:
Please someone shed some light on this. I just logged on the MDCN site and there was a link linking to an exam pass list conducted on 7th and 8th of oct. Over 300+ students pass for mbbs and just 4 passed for dentistry. Am just a fresher so, i know practically nothing about the system. Am kind addled here. So of all the mbbs and dental students in nigeria, those are the ones to be inducted. An in toto explanation please.

The exam was for Nigerian citizens who graduated from medical schools abroad in order to gain licensure to practice in Nigeria.

smartdave1:
Good day bosses! Pls i wish to know the differences between 'Doctor Of Medicine' (some foreign schools issue it) and MBBS cos i learnt that the former is issued after 4 years of study while the latter is issued after 6 years of study.

There's no difference.

Thewhizzkid1:
No she's not. I think she's an American. She's also the author of BRS physiology.

It's funny I don't even know the author of one of my preferred physiology texts. If she authors brs then she'd be good.

I must say I'm glad to see a paradigm shift from the regular Guyton, Sembulimgam and Ganong to textbooks that can achieve the same purpose even far better.

Bush2013:
Dr lomax good afternoon, have you graduated?. God have done it by granting me admission into medicine lasu

Vcojuro isn't wrong. As at 2013, I was supposed to finish by May, 2015. But we've had a lot of internal strikes (NMA, ARD, JOHESU ) that has consumed a cumulative period of 9 months in the last 2 years. So I'm still a final year baby boy.

I'll be done in a couple of months, say 6 or 7.

congrats on ur admission. More synovial fluid to your joints.

Thewhizzkid1:
Sir how do you see Costanzo physiology?

I don't know Costanzo. Is he a Nigerian?

smartdave1:
Wow! Dr Lomaxx is back.
Sir, how have you been?

Suffering and smiling

topsonkay:
Lol. I have fox physiology. Is Fox good too?

Fox is good. Use it with NMS and you won't need any Guyton or Sembulimgam.

topsonkay:
Welcome back Dr. Lomaxx. How have you been?

Between Guyton and Hall physiology, and Sembulingam physiology, which do you think is better and why?

You're seeking my personal opinion. I don't think any of them is better.

Guyton - too voluminous

Sembulimgam - better than Guyton by being straight to the point. Very fluid in describing mechanisms. But you asked for my personal opinion

Don't you people have Fox Physiology?

DrLazDevitan:
Is it adviceable to use Essentials of Medical Physiology with Ganong,just to study most clinical correlations?

Ganong is good. I personally didn't like it for obvious reasons. It is too clinical that u may be tempted astray off the important details.

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lagmostkuit:
Good for them

Buhari sef, can't he just look normal for once?

Damnnnnnnn!!!
Obasanjo is too ugly





FTC!!! On Lala's thread and i'm like this

MrsPhyno:
We all have health issues
Is this interrogation your reason for quoting me ?

what's your twitter @ ?

You mean Netflix, Chill and small talk?

If this is what's inspiring you, I'm sorry you have a long way to go. You will forever walk in their shadow.

Which most upcoming musicians are doing already.


How is it down there?

Allow him to grow balls. Don't help him out. He'll come around someday.

vivypretty:
if she cherishes this man i guess she adores the husband and i think the husband understands what she means

I hope you would say the same if a married man were to do the cherishing.

cornflakes:
@Phone, pls any news frontm UDUTH, abt when they are employing residents?do they have family medicine? [b] And how come you got a placement so fast after your primaries? [b]

He was already a resident in psychiatry for about a year. He definitely had contacts and built relationships. Those factors come in handy in getting placements.

Pzone:
I have successfully changed specialties from psychiatry to ENT. Had to write another primaries. One year wasted though! or not!! Im almost a year in the training in ENT now @ UDUTH. Sometimes, I even wonder if the whole thing is worth it.

Well, for now we keep doing the residency thingy cos it seems thats almost the only good option for doctors who want to practice in Nigeria.

@bolded

what are your thoughts on it?

What other options do you think are worthwhile?

Good evening.

bayonekind:
You are right ....
Before the family get money
Hospital no get fuel
Doctor has travel
Nurse is busy
go get drug
pay before treatment
get registration card while patient is on dead role
I believe HELL CANT BE TOUGH THAN LOWER CLASS LIFE IN NIGERIA ...
I AM JUST GRACEFUL TO GOD THAT I HAVE CROSSOVER THE LOWER CLASS---PRESENTLY AT MID-UPPER CLASS ....

prelinctus:
This is as a result of the poor health care system in this country. I'm sure this can't happen in USA. Nigeria still has a long way to go.

Usually I don't call people out on public forums. But I have to do this for this public show of ignorance.

Yes the Nigerian Medical system may be nothing to write home about. But in the case of this burns ,both of you are totally wrong.

I am more than 100% sure that this man died due to the compilations of his burns. Burns is a very tricky case. You who probably knows nothing about it thinks it's the cosmetic skin erosion that is the primary problem.

But you forget that at the scene of the incident this man must have probably inhaled toxic concentrations of carbon monoxide that would have started an acute respiratory system failure. This man, at the site of the incident not related to any medical intervention or the failure of it, was already predisposed to acute renal failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, toxic pnemonitis, toxic levels of gases etc.

Finally, and most importantly, this man is at severe risk of sepsis. I'm very sure that's what killed him. With increased resistance to antimicrobials and the ineffective aseptic protocol already damaging the health system, this man is one of the least persons you would expect to survive.

Severe second degree burns, high risk of overwhelming sepsis with other concordant complications. Please give the health workers a break on this one. They're not miracle workers.

There are some lessons you will never learn, and even if you were told would not give it the same magnitude of importance....



Till you experience it first hand.


Experience may not be the best teacher. But forget, there's nothing like it.

I don't know what it would take Nigerians to mind their business.

Talk is cheap. Oya do. wetin you talk, problem.


You think it's by shouting change everywhere.

Boobs had fallen before she even began to make millions.
This world is not my home.

medschoolguy:
1. Correct

2. Renal failure causes reduced clearance of the oral hyperglycemics increasing their duration of action in the system.

how do you explain the quoted below ? it's an excerpt from the original question.

After the episode, she reduced her dose yet episodes of hyperglycemia still occurred.

JERIZO:
Guys in my school is going through the same thing. I am planning of leaving them with their unaccredited medical school.

Eksu is unaccredited. Your school is partially accredited. You have to do a lot of fact finding before you jump ship. Growing medical schools have their teething issues. But fact finding first.

charleymed:
for the inquisitive aspirants, this is what med school looks like.

Negative marking is the bane of medical education in Nigeria.

The exam I wrote 2 days ago, the rule is +1/-1.

You have one question correct - 1 mark

You have another one wrong - minus 1 mark.

And that's how it is in a lot of other medical schools.

This method of assessing students is counter productive. But we can't complain.

medschoolguy:
The stuffy roots of this thread have quite been lost, therefore something to stimulate us;

1). What is the pathogenesis of septic shock?

2). Only one gram +ve bacteria produces spores, which is it?

3). What are actinomycetes?

4). Discuss the in viva coagulation pathway.

5). A diabetes mellitus patient on oral hypoglycemic drugs was unresponsive and constantly hyperglycemic. However, with no change in dosage, she suddenly went into hypoglycemic coma. After the episode, she reduced her dose yet episodes of hyperglycemia still occurred. What could be the cause?

NB: Sorry that the questions are too easy. This is just to stimulate the chiefs to give us stuff.

Happy answering.

1) Endotoxin mediated release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and mediators

5) Type 1 DM?