₦airaland Forum

femi4:
The young shall grow

We need to keep them busy

pocohantas:
Car is going far. We don't let them make our hair sef. Hair that can grow back o.

SIRTee15:
Interns are not students. They are fully fledged doctors with a license to practice. U cannot say they should not manage patients.

pls lets be guided by how we confidently dish out misinformation to the public. interns are not students.

Jman06:
The point is not to stop internship but to curtail reliance on interns which have become the order of the day in many public hospitals! Patients should never be left solely under the care of interns!

I know what why I raised this alarm! It is now becoming a norm for many hospitals to rely on these students! Many of them seldom employ fully licenced staff who are meant to train the interns but keep employing interns from year to year. Most times, these interns don't get the expected training and mentorship for the purpose of which they were required to undergo internships!

AngelSlay:
While the concern for patient safety is valid, the conversation also needs balance.

Interns in public hospitals are not simply “students being used to replace staff.” In many healthcare professions, internship is a compulsory transition stage between classroom learning and full professional practice. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, medical laboratory scientists, physiotherapists, and others cannot become competent professionals without supervised hands-on experience with real patients.

The real issue is not the existence of interns — it is poor supervision, understaffing, and weak healthcare funding.

Public hospitals in Nigeria are often overwhelmed. Many facilities are dealing with staff shortages caused by migration of healthcare workers, delayed recruitment, poor salaries, and inadequate government funding. In that environment, interns sometimes end up carrying responsibilities beyond what should normally be assigned to them. That is a systemic failure, not proof that internship itself is dangerous.

Completely removing interns from direct patient interaction is also unrealistic. Healthcare is learned through practice. A medical doctor cannot become confident by only observing from a distance. A pharmacist must eventually interact with prescriptions. A nurse must handle patients under supervision. The key phrase is under supervision.

Many of the fully licensed professionals being demanded today were once interns who needed experienced mentors to guide them.

Rather than calling for an end to interns participating in patient care, the focus should be on:

Ensuring proper supervision by senior professionals

Hiring more permanent healthcare workers

Improving hospital funding

Creating clear boundaries for what interns can and cannot do

Holding hospital management accountable when interns are overworked or left unsupervised


Blaming interns alone risks targeting young professionals who are also victims of a struggling healthcare system. The solution is to fix the structure that forces them into roles they were never meant to handle alone. Patient safety matters, but so does building the next generation of competent healthcare professionals.

Jman06:
The point is not to stop internship but to curtail reliance on interns which have become the order of the day in many public hospitals! Patients should never be left solely under the care of interns!

I know what why I raised this alarm! It is now becoming a norm for many hospitals to rely on these students! Many of them seldom employ fully licenced staff who are meant to train the interns but keep employing interns from year to year. Most times, these interns don't get the expected training and mentorship for the purpose of which they were required to undergo internships!

GloriousGbola:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGc3HZxHyM?si=N_TLsux4dlrzOm-N

Ward round has become students acting as doctors.

If you don't want to be handled by students then go to a private hospital.

Jman06:
It is not uncommon to see internship students being used in our public hospitals to do the jobs meant for fully engaged staff. This trend portends a serious danger as it puts the lives of patients at risks! Interns are students undergoing the last part of their training! They're are ment to be taught the practical aspects of their professions by fully licenced and engaged professionals in the facility!

However, what we now have in many public hospitals is a situation where these interns are taken in place of full staff members and the result is that errors upon errors are made by these interns at the detriment of patients! Many patients have died while others have suffered economic losses as a result of this dangerous trend.

In an ideal situation, interns are not meant to interface directly with patients. It is the job of fully licenced staff members of the hospital to care for patients while delegating minor duties to the interns.

The minister of health must rise to the occasion and put a stop to this anomaly! MDs should be made to employ fully licenced staff members and avoid using interns to do jobs meant for licenced professionals because these interns are not yet fully licenced to practise their professions! We have enough licenced professionals in the various healthcare fields who are ready to take up jobs in our hospitals! Let's stop putting the lives of patients at risks with this dangerous practise! Enough is enough!

Jman06:
It is not uncommon to see internship students being used in our public hospitals to do the jobs meant for fully engaged staff. This trend portends a serious danger as it puts the lives of patients at risks! Interns are students undergoing the last part of their training! They're are ment to be taught the practical aspects of their professions by fully licenced and engaged professionals in the facility!

However, what we now have in many public hospitals is a situation where these interns are taken in place of full staff members and the result is that errors upon errors are made by these interns at the detriment of patients! Many patients have died while others have suffered economic losses as a result of this dangerous trend.

In an ideal situation, interns are not meant to interface directly with patients. It is the job of fully licenced staff members of the hospital to care for patients while delegating minor duties to the interns.

The minister of health must rise to the occasion and put a stop to this anomaly! MDs should be made to employ fully licenced staff members and avoid using interns to do jobs meant for licenced professionals because these interns are not yet fully licenced to practise their professions! We have enough licenced professionals in the various healthcare fields who are ready to take up jobs in our hospitals! Let's stop putting the lives of patients at risks with this dangerous practise! Enough is enough!

femi4:
The young shall grow

We need to keep them busy

SIRTee15:
Interns are not students. They are fully fledged doctors with a license to practice. U cannot say they should not manage patients.

apprenctice in car workshop or hairdressing saloon are not interns. An apprentice is a student learning on the job rather than the classroom. However, I will expect an apprentice nearing the end of his/her training to be competent enough to make hair and repair cars otherwise his years of training was a waste. At that level, the only way his oga sabi pass am na experience not knowledge.

The issue of senior supervision in medicine cut across all cadres of training. Even senior resident needs supervision and some newly consultants may need support for complex cases.

The idea that interns are left alone to manage patient is an exaggeration, someone here said that they perform operation, that's a joke. Even, junior residents are not allowed to perform operations not to talk of interns.

pls lets be guided by how we confidently dish out misinformation to the public. interns are not students.

cc thrillionaire
AngelSlay
Jman06

newoffer:
Na so I visit one of the new renovated hospital. I don do research base on my symptoms so I have idea what am coming to do. Let me explain small to doctor. Doctor leave room to go ask another doctor wetin he thinks say dey worry me . I weak. When I come later dey go I meet the two for road. Na consultant wey no get staunch knowledge about medical because I see Dem like Lapo people

Jman06:
It is not uncommon to see internship students being used in our public hospitals to do the jobs meant for fully engaged staff. This trend portends a serious danger as it puts the lives of patients at risks! Interns are students undergoing the last part of their training! They're are ment to be taught the practical aspects of their professions by fully licenced and engaged professionals in the facility!

However, what we now have in many public hospitals is a situation where these interns are taken in place of full staff members and the result is that errors upon errors are made by these interns at the detriment of patients! Many patients have died while others have suffered economic losses as a result of this dangerous trend.

In an ideal situation, interns are not meant to interface directly with patients. It is the job of fully licenced staff members of the hospital to care for patients while delegating minor duties to the interns.

The minister of health must rise to the occasion and put a stop to this anomaly! MDs should be made to employ fully licenced staff members and avoid using interns to do jobs meant for licenced professionals because these interns are not yet fully licenced to practise their professions! We have enough licenced professionals in the various healthcare fields who are ready to take up jobs in our hospitals! Let's stop putting the lives of patients at risks with this dangerous practise! Enough is enough!

How dare you call Interns students

You definitely have limited knowledge on how the healthcare profession works

Emary:
I'm very experienced and I still Google, even in the presence of patients. Medicine is incredibly broad and it's impossible to know and remember everything. Sometimes, I need to confirm dosages, side-effects or possible drug interactions. Even diagnoses need to reconfirmed if they're not the common ones.

If you watch medical series, the doctors are always pulling research, especially when they're not sure. A doctor who claims to know it all is a very dangerous doctor.

Dont mind these Ignoramuses

They probably think doctors are black panthers and Captain Americas

Solcampbell:
Perhaps he doesn't know who an intern is. I believe he's confusing students on clinical postings with interns.

blowjohn:
What is the meaning of 'internship student? '

lenghtinny:
How dare you call Interns students

You definitely have limited knowledge on how the healthcare profession works

SIRTee15:
Interns are not students. They are fully fledged doctors with a license to practice. U cannot say they should not manage patients.

apprenctice in car workshop or hairdressing saloon are not interns. An apprentice is a student learning on the job rather than the classroom. However, I will expect an apprentice nearing the end of his/her training to be competent enough to make hair and repair cars otherwise his years of training was a waste. At that level, the only way his oga sabi pass am na experience not knowledge.

The issue of senior supervision in medicine cut across all cadres of training. Even senior resident needs supervision and some newly consultants may need support for complex cases.

The idea that interns are left alone to manage patient is an exaggeration, someone here said that they perform operation, that's a joke. Even, junior residents are not allowed to perform operations not to talk of interns.

pls lets be guided by how we confidently dish out misinformation to the public. interns are not students.

cc thrillionaire
AngelSlay
Jman06

lenghtinny:
Dont mind these Ignoramuses

They probably think doctors are black panthers and Captain Americas

IMPARTIAL:
Very dangerous. That was how my daughter who had serious typhoid fever was treated for ulcer by one these young female doctors. I guess an intern.