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omotowo2:
Do they still do that ?

Speed123:
Let me also share a similar but worse case than yours.
I got admission to study medicine in Unical in year 2000. I did my 100level by 200level ASUU went on very long national strike that lasted upto 3months or more.
When the strike was called off, the medical college immediately fixed the 2nd MBBS exams of my senior colleagues. They protested that they needed time to prepare for the exam since they hardly read at home during the strike. The college refused and that led to a serious altercation between the students and the medical college.
In order for the college to get back at the students they decided to rescreen everyone and the yardstick to pass the screening was for your name to be in the merit list, anything short of that you are out of Unical.
The truth is 80% of medicine & surgery students then came in via 2nd list and runs....I for myself paid about 35k then to work my admission into medical school.
I was screen out, all the exams I wrote in 200level I never saw the results. Some of my friends stayed back and wrote another JAMB. But I took the BOLD STEP to inform my Dad of the bad news, it was heartbreaking but we all got through it.
I didn't apply for medicine again, today I am a graduate of Economics and I will soon complete my masters.
After that incident I came to discover that I didn't have the calling to be a medical doctor because I can't stand the sight of blood or an open wound. God saved me from making that mistake.
My advice for you, go home bro. Pray and be bold enough to tell your parents, tell them the whole truth, don't hide anything. They would be the ones who would be comforting you.
Trust me nothing will happen to your father, give him hope, show him that you are ready to take the next step that your spirit and determination is still high.
Another advice, forget medicine, take up courses on ICT, computer software, programming, all that.
You can also go for Geophysics, it's a hotcake for oil companies that do drilling and exploration.
Pray about it and God will give you direction on what course to study but the clue is to follow your passion.

goso39:
Are you sure that you are in medical school at all, because in medicine there is nothing like Gp in 100-600level. All they do in 100 level, is to take average in all your courses. Medicine is one of the simplest department you will love to be in. What they will do is to sum all the biology courses you wrote in 100 and take the average, as long as it is a above 45% u are good to go.

Onlyonebuhari:
Mr Man Medical rules the same world wide. Keep your lies to yourself.....so no resit in uniben?

truthsayer009:
So which profession or career path are you right now?

What do you also mean by Doctors who have upgraded themselves? I am just curious.

Onlyonebuhari:
Oga which school did u attend? No one will withdraw you from medical school in 100L. Even if u fail all the biological sciences courses in 100L u will get repeat. Oga please tell aus another thing.
We pass through medical school and the most difficult Medical school is OAU College where we did 320 questions in 80 in anatomy head and neck.

Period007:
U cannot be withdrawn after spending just a year and failing just one course.
I don't believe this ur story yet

Meninmen:
Which period Sir/Ma?

Smartmed:
which school is this？
most schools i know dont throw u out immediately, instead you are given a chance to repeat 100level

Johnblakii:
Lol.. they are not in top schools, they are not in many schools..
Dude... You can't argue this at all..
It's not even reasonable to argue with you..
You are comparing a broad course in oil, environmental, plant, food, geoscience, space and medical fields....you are comparing it with a course in only medical line..

Imagine this insult ooo..
Is it salary range you wanna compare, is it the unlimited potential in career you wanna compare?
I studied med microbiology, and yet I could leave it and go into oil, bioremediation etc...
Or is it because Nigeria is limiting the course?
Ant comparing itself with elephant..
Who will they pick in research between a medical microbiologist and a medlabsci?
After hospital and diagnostic labs that pays not more than 300k for those that have more than 20yrs, which other high end salary is in medlab
Lol, you are in 400lvl, so I won't blame you... Your brain never develop well..
Leave school first and enter life... Then we can talk..

For the other people reading this that's trying to make a decision btw medlab nd mcb, just know you can't practice with your Nigeria license outside this country, you still need to take part in a training before taking the exam... That's up to 12mnths I'm sure... Just think about that.. You are limited to Nigeria where I can assure you, you might get employment easier but your salary won't pass 300k in your lifetime... 300k is even too too too much.. it's only for the Baba in the course that spent over 25yrs in the field.. unless you wanna go into academics, which is the same salary as other courses.. if you go into academics, I can assure you, MCB get more and easier grants than medlab.. that's if medlab do research sef .. a the researches done in medical and biological sciences Field are done by biological scientists.. check journals to confirm my claim..
You can go for that and be limited or go for MCB and be committed.. i can assure you the ISS is your starting point..
I am 26yrs and I'm already making 230k per month in my job.. that's apart from the Forex trading and IT work I do..

Just be committed, I assure you, you won't regret it..
We like fast and cheap success in Nigeria and your peers will pressure you.. but I say again, hard work and smart work pays.. can't argue anymore.. Peace
*drops mic
John out

Zeeknow3245:
Exactly,a Guy told me that they were 343 in medical school in the east excluding dentists oo and when they got to 300 level they wëre 143. I won't mention the school

Snowale:
LOL, now you can talk if dominating after I've proven to you that Pharmacist did more pathology. you have nothing to say about that. so, let's go to the next step of the argument, you borrowed pathology, and you can have specialist who specializes in pathology. just like you borrowed pharmacology and you can have specialist who specializes in pharmacology so get your facts right, don't just raise point for the sake of argument, thinking the person you are arguing with knows nothing about your course.
you borrowed those courses, just like and maths student will do English as borrowed course and an Islamic student will do Arabic as borrowed course. so get you fact right, Google is your friend.

you said pharmacy has just 6 specialities LOL.


 


*community pharmacy

hospital pharmacy

clinical pharmacy

industrial pharmacy

compounding pharmacy

consulting pharmacy

ambulatory care pharmacy

regulatory pharmacy

home care pharmacy

Oncology pharmacy

Nuclear pharmacy

Geriatric pharmacy

Psychopharmacotherapy

Personal pharmacy

Nutritional support pharmacy

Hospice pharmacy

Pediatric pharmacy

Pharmacy benefit manager

Poison control pharmacy

should I continue, because there are many more

Snowale:
Doctor what!!! Seems you don't know why MBBS, Dentistry, Optometry, Vet. med, pharmacist graduates are awarded doctors, it's simple because if the extra work load and extra 2 years+ they spend in school.

Pathology is also a course offered by pharmacy students, and they do it as borrowed course just like you guys, but in 2 good years, unlike you guys. LOOL.
You think it's all about carrying big textbooks, who told you pharmacist don't but textbooks. Better try visiting a pharmacy school. You think pharmacy is easy. We do more of pathology than you guys, even those that do pathology the most ie medical scientists, they don't want on social media. Pharmacy is far broader than medicine, and it's not only limited to the hospital.

Like I said earlier. It's only an unoriented person that would see Medicine as a better course. Why most of you go into the course is because of the respect people gives to them, which they are now loosing. But, a lucky jambite that sees someone to orient him well about both courses would go for pharmacy. That's the fact, no one want to study six years in school, just to be limited to just hospital jobs or to be forced sit for several exams in order to travel abroad or be force to bribe with huge amount of money in order to get into the residency program, or be forced to get loan to build a hospital just to find out pharmacist and laboratories generates most of the money(who pays a consultant in nigeria for telling him his illness and writing drugs on paper) most later shut down the hospital which is very common, and many more.

A pharmacist would always be proud of his profession, while a medic most atimes proud of only the Dr. tag. Now a pharmacist have both. It's just a matter of time, because I know you are either an aspirant or a student, when the time comes you will understand.

Snowale:
So you think a pharmacist have no knowledge of pathology, you think all they do in 6 years is to cram names of drugs, without knowing the diseases it cures/treats. LOL, you did pathology as a borrowed for just a year and you think you are masters of pathology. Better search online about pharmacy syllabus and also search about consultant pharmacy, which is very common in US and UK.
LoL, most pharmacist wouldn't even think of being a consultant, when there are many better field one can venture in. You will find out the truth as time goes on.

And stop mentioning course to compare medicine and pharmacy, do you also do pharmacognosy. There are 6 departments under pharmacy, and you guys only does one, just like na pharmacistever did surgery. But, talking about pathology and pathophysiology, you must be joking. You think, all what a pharmacist knows is the names of drugs

Snowale:
what distance are you referring to!!! They both spend 6 years in school, 1 year internship and 1 year service. What are you talking about? What qualifies an MBBS graduate to be called a given Doctors is the extra workload. A pharmacist also face similar stress and struggle in school.

Even abroad, a pharmacist can change the dosage and prescription. He reviews what the consultant demands. If a consultants already knows everything about a drug, why does he still needs to write to a pharmacist, why not get it himself, Because a pharmacist knows almost everything about drug, and he needs a pharmacist to reveiw his prescription if it's correct or wrong. You can't compare someone that studied pharmacology as a borrowed course in just one year, with someone that did it almost throughout his 6 years in school.

If a pharmacist can't be referred to as a doctor, the same should go with dentist, Vetenarians, pathologist, surgeons etc.

Snowale:
You think after just 6 years in school, you know everything in all health fields and you can step into any of those fields.and come out successfully, pharmacy is too broad to be thinking about being a consultant, what's the big deal about being a consultant. When there are even better things a licensed pharmacist would do, that most consultants wished to do, I know doctors that come back for pharmacy and I know consultant that send their children to study pharmacy instead of M.bla bla bla.

I hope you won't talk about which is more lucrative, or which is paying more.
An average Doctor in Pharmacy gets more than an average of Doctor in medicine. And in terms he of lucrativeness, LOL, we all know about the residency training, and how most of them later run abroad

Snowale:
LOL, the pain is running through your vain, isn't it? I notice the NMA and MDCN are doing all they could to make sure they lead in everything, they thought they are meant to lead and they are unique. If they have the power they would have chased other health workers out of the hospital, so they can comfortably do the work themselves. The way radiologist prevents radiographers from doing CT-scan and others less hazardous works and leave them to work on radiation jobs, and the way they prevents Doctors of optometrist from doing eye surgery and also made sure they are placed under conhess with a starting salary below that of a house officer, how they prevent nurses from doing surgeries and how they try to prevent scientist from carrying out test in infectious laboratories, like the few COVID19 laboratories around. Thinking they can do it all. Thinking they know everything, they were thought everything in just six years. LOL
Pharmacist reads consultant's prescriptions, true. Pharmacist can cancel consultant's prescriptions and give the right drug or dose to the patient. It's very legal.
What's the big deal about consulting, diagnosing and treating patients. Nurses are treating, they are also doing surgeries, Scientists diagnose, they also do histopathological analysis.
Pharmacy being the most lucrative, a pharmacist might decide to leave the hospital, and get a better paying job in a pharmaceutical industry, get more than what any CMD could get.

Many consultants even wish to produce build pharmaceutical industry but they can't, some even try dispensing/selling drugs, they end up being arrested.
Their work is to write on paper and send to another doctor (pharmacist) for REVIEW, if the dose and prescription is right, the pharmacist will dispense, if it's wrong then he will either correct it and dispense the right drug in the correct dosage or he send the patient back to the other doctor (consultant) for correction.

Here I am talking about Hospital pharmacy for in-patients.

Period007:
So have u seen a Pharmacist calling himself a medical doctor
See,the real medical doctors have accepted the PharmD so ur opinion doesn't matter

Snowale:
Whether you like it or not, they are Doctors, the NMA and MDCN would always be sad knowing there is Pharm.D.

Pharm.D isn't an academic doctorate, i.e PhD as you said. It is just like MBBS, Vet. Med and optometry. They can be called Doctors anywhere anytime and as time goes one, pharmacist would gain the right to consult.

Period007:
U still reason and type like a JAMBite that u are,Just STFU if u don't know there are different types of doctors. MD,DVM,OD,PHD,PharmD and any of them can bear it anywhere because they earn it

Snowale:
A pharmcist prescribes drug at it's right dose. just like you said, a dentist interpret the work of a pathologist for diagnosis and treatment, the pharmacist interprete the prescription of a consultant, giving right dose to the patient as medication. They are all doctors doing different things. From pathologist to dentist to consultants to surgeons to pharmacist. They all doctors in different areas of specialization

ultron12345:
MCBite spotted.


Be there deceiving your self, how many breweries and research institutes will absorb the thousands of microbiologists pumped out every year. Graduates of industrial chemistry and biochemistry and food science are already competing with them for these jobs.


You say u can do course in MLT and convert to a lab scientist, you see how you lie, so medical lab technology and medical lab science is nw same thing? I pity the innocent souls u have deceived.

Microbiology graduates can never work in a hospital lab (unless u do that ur MLT course which turns u into a lab technician where u are regarded as a lesser being in the lab, u are d lowest in d hierarchy, only slightly senior than d cleaners). All those microbiologist u see in d hospital lab are either mls graduates (medical microbiology option) or doctors who specialized in medical microbiology (if you like, b thinking d medical microbiology of Mls and MBBS is d same as MCB). When they see such Mls or MBBS people as lab heads, they start claiming they are MCB graduates.

To the OP, look at his last paragraph, that is hw they lure innocent souls into their trap, making medical courses sound like a limitation, making MLS look bad by saying all dey do is take excreta samples. Just churning out pure lies to deceive young ones. Have you wondered why he targeted medical courses and left out d science courses that are competing with them like biochemistry and industrial chemistry, its because he has a secret craving for a medical course, but too lazy to pursue it, i suspect its either medicine or MLS.

Just watch as his fellow MCBites will gather themselves like a swarm of bees and storm this thread, targeting my head just becos I said the bitter truth

Period007:
You are not leaned

Period007:
You are not leaned

Period007:
Stop moving from threads to threads typing rubbish

Snowale:
Pharmacist is the specific name, just like surgeons, pathologist, Dentists, optometrist, otorhinolaryngologist, veterinarians etc. The are all Doctors. They can all be called doctor. But, a veterinarian would never risk doing the work of a Optometrist, while a pharmacist would never try doing the work of an ENT doctor.

Snowale:
Exactly, I don't think any pharmacist would ever try doing the work of a surgeon or Dentist, he knows his job. Just like a Dentist wouldn't do the work of a pathologist. Even though they are all Doctors.

mannyiyke:
It's not true. It's unethical in the hospital setting. He or she is just a pharmacist in the hospital. Nothing more.

Snowale:
As far you are a pharm.D graduate, you can be called Dr. anywhere, anytime.
it doesn't affect patients at all, because all professionals knows their assigned responsibilities

ThreeBlackBird:
Don't stress. Look at the alumni association and your answer is right there. Almost all governors in the southwest are alumni of University of Lagos. Four of them graduated from UNILAG. The other two, from OAU, Ife.

Search for the best lawyers in Nigeria and it's University of Lagos. Nobel Prize for Literature, UI. Think about tech start ups and look it up. It's Unilag. Think entertainment it's Unilag.

Thing is, you wouldn't understand what goes on within the four walls of those schools until you mingle with them and see their desperation and resolve to be better and influential people in life. You'll be influenced.

Exc2000:
Some of you just open your mouths without any form of reasoning.... I can bet my balls that you haven't even travelled or stepped into any college outside Nigeria yet you are comparing UniLag to almajiree schools out of stupidity

the fact that Nigerian schools don't get rated high doesn't mean they are substandard, it simpy means they are under funded for research and have less papers published in academic journals... in terms of lecturing and delivering knowledge which is the primary responsibility of a uni, I bet you they far out class many , our graduates in Nigerian University are breaking bariers in top colleges overseas, my very own sister who graduated with 2.2 in accounting LeadCity Uni Ibadan , proudly graduated with 2.1 and almost clinching 1st class in law.. in University of Liverpool

PS: I haven't even attended a pubic institution anytime in my entire life nursery to uni was in privates, but I have seen lautech , U.I , OAU, and UniLag graduates do what many grads of other schools cant

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1stola:
where did you see medical in my post?