laryom1:
The main determinant is the courses being offered. If the courses being offered by those in medicine is the same as those being offered by students in MLS, there is definitely "a huge crossing chance" only if the required CGPA is met. Addition of courses is employed if the situation above is not the case but it must not violate the MAX total unit and personal ability too should be considered here.. To cap it all, your present department must be ready to release you and the department you want to cross to also must be willing to accept you, if not, even if you have 7.0( UI for instance) cgpa, you are going no where.

AmbFitsaint:


In UI, students of MLS offer all and even more than we do in MBBS esp in the 1st semester.

It has become a principle here that once u are in a professional dept. Dream of other things order than switching your course. It will look demeaning to allow crossing... That is the mindset of the professional courses collossus. Vet med,pharm , MLS are greatly professional.

laryom1:
The main determinant is the courses being offered. If the courses being offered by those in medicine is the same as those being offered by students in MLS, there is definitely "a huge crossing chance" only if the required CGPA is met. Addition of courses is employed if the situation above is not the case but it must not violate the MAX total unit and personal ability too should be considered here.. To cap it all, your present department must be ready to release you and the department you want to cross to also must be willing to accept you, if not, even if you have 7.0( UI for instance) cgpa, you are going no where.

buzyguy:
dentistry, physiotherapy offer Same course as mbbs or even more
yet no crossing, why?

oluafolabi:


Distinction is now 80% for the next set of preclinical students because their tests will carry 40% of their MB scores instead of 30% that ours is carrying. I heard it's due to NUC regulation.

oluafolabi:


Distinction is now 80% for the next set of preclinical students because their tests will carry 40% of their MB scores instead of 30% that ours is carrying. I heard it's due to NUC regulation.

buzyguy:
dentistry, physiotherapy offer Same course as mbbs or even more
yet no crossing, why?

ishowdotgmail:
Life in UI’s Alexander Brown Hall


Alexander Brown Hall (ABH) at the
University College Hospital, Ibadan, a 10
minutes drive from the main campus of
the University of Ibadan, serves as home
to UI medical, dental and physiotherapy
students. While physiotherapy students
spend two years in the hostel, medical
and dental students spend at least 40
months with just two weeks holiday
which comes about seven months to
graduation.
The students spend the first three years
of their training inside the UI main
campus. Medical students are found in all
undergraduates’ halls of residence but the
prayer point of every pre-clinical student
is to pass the second MB examination and
"cross over" to ABH. Inhabitants of the
hall are called ‘Brownites’ and the most
junior would be in 400 level.
ABH is like the Promised Land to an
average UI medical student. Movement
into the hall is usually associated with
fanfare and excitement. The hall is quite
unique and life there is different from
what is obtainable in other halls. In ABH,
DSTV, HiTV and CTL are connected to all
rooms unlike in other halls where they
are only connected in the TV Room.
There are six blocks, three each for the
males and females. There is no restriction
of movement for Brownites within the
hall at any time of the day (and there is
no unusual coupling too!)
Two students live in a room. Within the
hall, there is a five-aside football pitch,
basketball, volleyball as well as badminton
courts. There are also two table tennis
boards, a snooker and computer game
playing centre known as Arema.
Brownites play the games, including chess
and scrabble.
During weekdays, most Brownites are
busy. Everyone goes to the hospital for
their daily activities and most are fagged
out by the time they are back. Clinical
students rotate through the departments
in the hospital and their schedule is
determined by the department in which
one is at any particular time. However,
Surgery and Paediatrics are usually the
most tasking. In the evenings, various
organisations or fellowships usually have
their meetings.
However, weekends are more interesting,
especially for the sport-loving Brownites.
Friday evenings and Saturday mornings
are usually for the ABH 5-aside Football
League where seven students-owned
clubs compete for trophies in basketball
and volleyball. Saturday afternoons/
evenings and Sundays are for the English
Premiership and Spanish La Liga matches.
English Premiership has more fans than
other world leagues. The Manchester
United, Arsenal and Chelsea fans always
engage themselves in hot arguments,
depending on the performance of their
teams in the premiership, FA Cup and
Champions League. The local ABH clubs
also have their fans. FC Lazario has the
highest number of fans. The others are FC
Hupernikao, True Blues, Leon FC, FC
Shining, Bendel Insurance and FC
Maximum.
Equally in ABH, there are many students’
organisations focused on areas of
interest. They include Hamstrings Club for
socials and philanthropy, The Forum for
development of leadership and public
speaking skills; Sport Aficionados for the
sports enthusiasts; 7Q7 for the poets;
Sinfonia Choir for the singers and Play
House for drama. There is also Action
Group on Adolescent Health (AGAH) for
advocacy against diseases affecting the
reproductive tract.
Each of these organisations holds
programmes at least once in a year. This
is besides the bigger organisations, such
as the University of Ibadan Medical
Students’ Association (UIMSA),
UNIBADAN Association of Dental Students
(UADS) and the Association of
Physiotherapy Students (APS).
Meanwhile, only about 20 per cent of
Brownites are actively involved in
organising the activities of the
organisations. Same set of people run the
organisations as one could belong to any
three of them and be an executive
member in two or even three.
Socially, ABH is a "dull" hall compared to
others in UI. Brownites leave the hall on
Friday nights to clubs or joints because UI
banned the sale of alcoholic drinks in its
halls of residence. Usually, variety nights
during hall or departmental weeks are
the only opportunities for those who
don’t like to go out to relax. Each of the
clubs holds a variety night once a year.
Politically, ABH can boast of student-
politicians who are active locally,
nationally and internationally. Brownites
hold executive posts in the Students
Transition Caretaker, NiMSA, FAMSA, JCI,
ANUNSA, Rotaract Club, HAPPY Club, UCJ,
etc. However, majority have little or no
interest in politics. Seniority, religious
affiliation and relationship with others
usually influence the outcome of elections
in ABH. Politics of "beef" and character
assassination is also very pronounced and
usually used against the more popular
candidates. On the other hand, there are
many religious leaders in ABH. Each class
boasts of not less than five pastors of
major fellowships in UI/UCH. There also
exists the Prince of Dawa, alfas and
students’ imams in the hall.
Academically, Brownites are very sound.
No doubt, with due respect to other
universities, UI has the best medical
college in Nigeria (but this does not in
any way suggest that our colleagues in
other schools are inferior). Brownites
have won the first four editions of the
Emeritus Professor Akinkugbe’s Biennial
Quiz competition in which at least 16
medical schools participate. UNN would
host the next edition.
The driest and dullest moments in the
hall are during examinations. Every
Brownite writes an end-of-posting
examination at least once in every two
months but the major MBBS examination
comes once a year. During such periods,
"all man de humble".
What about relationships? An average
male Brownite prefers to date a non-
medical student. This is probably because
the female medics are usually as busy as
the males and may not be free when the
guy would need her. Same also goes for
the lady Brownites. There are just few
couples in ABH. You can also get lots of
male and female virgins just as there are
sexually active ones. UI girls do feel
proud to have a boyfriend in ABH and
some Brownites take advantage of that to
have as many as possible. Don’t ask me if
"yawah dey gas" when the ladies find
out.
On cultism, there are no identifiable cult
members in ABH, besides there is zero
cult activity among Brownites.
To put it mildly, ABH is the most
comfortable undergraduate hostel to live
in Nigeria. Two-man room, no squatters,
complete with DSTV? That’s unbeatable.
Sports wise? Unbeatable. Politics wise?
Vibrant. Ah ah … socially? We call for
help!



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Fedric:
To all the medic in the house, between IMSU and UNIBEN which is best to study OPTOMETRY?


Is it free school fees for indigin and nonindigin in IMSU?

Fedric:
To all the medic in the house, between IMSU and UNIBEN which is best to study OPTOMETRY?


Is it free school fees for indigin and nonindigin in IMSU?

Fejiro550:
Yes,leo1234 we are taught in English

laryom1:
I THINK this new curriculum is ALMOST the same thing as what Unilorin is using. In the Preclinicals, they use 2 months for a semester(i think they call it posting), which sums up to 8months as you've said above covering same thing( But i heard they do a bit of MCB in 300l too)... COBES excluded in that 8 months o.

laryom1:
UNILORIN to start Dentistry next academic session- VC

DrHesjay:
The system here is a totally different thing... we do microbiology...epidemiology.. psychology....medical sociology right from 200.. n yes. d whole preclinicals is in 38weeks . . but d breaks n exams make it longer
meanwhile ..here in unilorin, when u get 55 ...u jump for glory. .. I heard of how pple just blast 70s n 80s in other schools n I laff..
I don't know why our lecturers have turned d system to a hard thing for students.

DrHesjay:
The system here is a totally different thing... we do microbiology...epidemiology.. psychology....medical sociology right from 200.. n yes. d whole preclinicals is in 38weeks . . but d breaks n exams make it longer
meanwhile ..here in unilorin, when u get 55 ...u jump for glory. .. I heard of how pple just blast 70s n 80s in other schools n I laff..
I don't know why our lecturers have turned d system to a hard thing for students.

DrHesjay:
hehehe. .. where? in this same college? where will they put them? this one that they r over admitting. d Man should stop deceiving himself jare

smartdave1:
Good afternoon Docs and Docs to be.

I need a little help.
Sometimes I feel pain in my neck whenever i wake up from sleep or after reading for long hours. Recently whenever I experience this I'll pour cold water on my neck. It works like magic. The pain will subside immediately.

Pls is there any side effect to it (the use of cold water on the neck). If yes what other way can be used to stop the pain.

Thanks!

Happy Sunday all.

Students are not allowed to cross from one professional course to anoda in UI. I don't see any reason for a dental student to cross to MBBS anyway. Becos at d end of d day u collect d same amount of salary with dem.

Students are not allowed to cross from one professional course to anoda in UI. I don't see any reason for a dental student to cross to MBBS anyway. Becos at d end of d day u collect d same amount of salary with dem.

Jonero25:
good pm dockays and dockays to be.....please I want clarification about this.... I just gained admission for MSc physiology Ui for 2014/2015. academic session... I intend doing direct entry to MBBS in university of Ibadan immediately I round up my MSc.... my question is this.... is it ideal to take 2015/2016 direct entry form ? I learnt Ui penalise for double admission...at the time of resumption for 2015/2016, I would have been through with my MSc final exams.... I would be grateful if my question is treated... thanks great medics....

buzyguy:
a guy here left oau dentistry already in part2 for ui mbbs part 1, so tell me why?
it just boils down on interest.
dr hesjay declined ui admssion bds for unilorin mbbs?
can u explain why?
I blieve nothing is "shouldn't be"
anything can happen.

buzyguy:
I think ug and pg programs are different
it's best to apply this year, my opinion.