Hi Nairalanders.. I'm really stuck in the middle right now... I wanna know the best course among these three medical courses. .. the most marketable in Nigeria's health sector... Which of them is the the best professional course.. Experienced Graduates should contribute cos its very important.. Job opportunities, Respect, Salary scale..

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I think Optometry is good especially in Nigeria, that's what I choose in my jamb.

But optometry retire early, I guess

But optometry retire early

DENTISTRY BY FAR ,the BDS degree earns the same recognition as the MBBS degree...strictly on par!!

Drdonzeez:
DENTISTRY BY FAR ,the BDS degree earns the same recognition as the MBBS degree...strictly on par!!

you dnt always have to do this...

proudly physiotherapist

some people are damn ignorant!!!

Drdonzeez:
DENTISTRY BY FAR ,the BDS degree earns the same recognition as the MBBS degree...strictly on par!!

optometrist also earn like MBBS

Not exactly..but O.D is still very lucrative

More comments pls.. thanks to those who have contributed

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Fedric:
optometrist also earn like MBBS

in which country bro?? MBBS/BDS are paid under CONMESS while optometry ,pharm et all are paid under COHESS... @Op NMA and JOHESU na mate??

Physiotherapy involves the use of PHYSICAL resources to treat and rehabilitate patients. Physical resources such as heat, cold, laser, light (electro-magnetic waves), electric currrent, ultra-sound, water, wax, force, manipulation, touch, exercise etc.

Physiotherapy is Physical Medicine.

It is a massive Profession in health care...that is very interesting and lucrative.
As a Physiotherapist you can specialise in Pediatrics, Sports, Orthopedics, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Geriartry etc.

Physiotherapists DIAGNOSE patients o! They are not subordinates to other professions O! They are independent, kinda like dentistry and Optometry.
You can get a degree such as Doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT)...from Nigeria. Google how! (You need plenty of hardwork..tho)
My younger brother is a Doctor of Physiotherapy..and am so proud of him! Patients love how he helps them recover quickly.
Hope this helped? Cheers.

sagaciousblog:
in which country bro?? MBBS/BDS are paid under CONMESS while optometry ,pharm et all are paid under COHESS... @Op NMA and JOHESU na mate??

The question remains does a dentist earn more,(not just govt salary) than an optometrist.Is it even possible ?Are they even comparable?It is pitiable that whenever earning power is mentioned people start shouting conmess/conhess dichotomy.Is that all there is to earning power? Can u compare the earning power of an average optometrist to that of a dentist?You can't.

originbm:


The question remains does a dentist earn more,(not just govt salary) than an optometrist.Is it even possible ?Are they even comparable?It is pitiable that whenever earning power is mentioned people start shouting conmess/conhess dichotomy.Is that all there is to earning power? Can u compare the earning power of an average optometrist to that of a dentist?You can't.

in UNIBEN, optometry is under d faculty of science and is even part of d dept of physics while dentistry is a faculty of its own, under a college of medicine. Dental trtments are costly and unaffordable by most Nigerians. That doesn't mean dat many Nigerians are suffering from oral and maxillofacial diseases. Tooth infections are d least of what a dentist treats. Tooth infections can even lead to blindness, orbital and brain abscesses and kill d patient. Compare ur optometry with dental therapy/, dental technology or dental nursing. The three are under d headship of a dentist.

originbm:


The question remains does a dentist earn more,(not just govt salary) than an optometrist.Is it even possible ?Are they even comparable?It is pitiable that whenever earning power is mentioned people start shouting conmess/conhess dichotomy.Is that all there is to earning power? Can u compare the earning power of an average optometrist to that of a dentist?You can't.

As i was saying, dental nursing, dental therapy and dental technology are under d headship of a dentist just as optometry is under d headship of an ophthalmologist. Even these three have separate boards while optometry and optics are under one body. If support staff in dentistry have separate boards, while optometry and optics are just under one body (ODORBN), dat shows u shld stop a foolish argument about dentistry. Why shld i even go to an optometrist when there's an ophthalmologist who knows all about eyes just as a dentist knows all about oral and maxillofacial diseases and not just about teeth

Mandeyy:
As i was saying, dental nursing, dental therapy and dental technology are under d headship of a dentist just as optometry is under d headship of an ophthalmologist. Even these three have separate boards while optometry and optics are under one body. If support staff in dentistry have separate boards, while optometry and optics are just under one body (ODORBN), dat shows u shld stop a foolish argument about dentistry. Why shld i even go to an optometrist when there's an ophthalmologist who knows all about eyes just as a dentist knows all about oral and maxillofacial diseases and not just about teeth

You dont know anything about health care politics...Opticians are on the same board with optometry. That was the making of optometrists. There being on a different board is not a biggy. Not everyone has an elitist mentality.If we wanted we will seperate from them, but we dont want. We still train them in every aspect of their education, including in ubth. We are in charge. It is a testimony to the acumen of optometry as a profession that u cannever hear wrangling between optometrists and opticians like u hear that between dentists and dental therapists and technicians.The fact that the dental therapists and technologists have their own board means that they fought and defeated u. The only advantage dentists have is that which medicine has given them. And yet you guys still cry about opression from medicine, all be it secretly. An optometrist knows more of clinical refraction than any ophthalmologist can ever hope to know. Ophthalmologists used to be on the board of odorbn till optometry kicked them out.One day if opticians become politically tough enough they will get their own board.For now it is a testimony to optometry's political will that they dont.

Mandeyy:
in UNIBEN, optometry is under d faculty of science and is even part of d dept of physics while dentistry is a faculty of its own, under a college of medicine. Dental trtments are costly and unaffordable by most Nigerians. That doesn't mean dat many Nigerians are suffering from oral and maxillofacial diseases. Tooth infections are d least of what a dentist treats. Tooth infections can even lead to blindness, orbital and brain abscesses and kill d patient. Compare ur optometry with dental therapy/, dental technology or dental nursing. The three are under d headship of a dentist.

if you go back and read my former posts I hv tacled these issues b4. Uniben optometry refused to come under medical sciences and assume the position of a basic medical science like nursing and other allied health sciences are grouped. In Abia State University, optometry is under college of medical sciences and is quoted as such in jamb. Infact the immediate past deputy provost of Abia State College of medical sciences (who is the recent vice-chancellor) is an optometrist-Prof. Uche Ikonne.
Uniben nma fought the introduction of O.D and threatened that optometry will never benefit from medicine's struggle if they introduced the degree. Tney chose independence. Today they are the living proof that one can suceed outside the goodwill of insitutional medicine. Optometry is million times more lucrative than dentistry even with all the persecution. Dentistry is not as rich as physiotherapy or radiography talk more of pharmacy. Yet u only take 25 students a yr.An optician in Benin will do better than a dentist in private practice , how much more an optometrist.... dont tell me what tooth disease is.....ur profession is poor simple.

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@ Originbm, ignorance is d biggest disease u have 4 comparing optometry with dentistry. Go to Kenya and see dat optometry is not even recognized. It's even diploma and B.Sc dat it's called in Kenya. They're hardly employed. In America and Britain, they are marketers 4 companies selling eye glasses. In private practice, they're not making it in America and Britain, let alone Nigeria. Google and see. One of u dat even said d truth, Ezebuiroh, said dat even a functional slit biomicroscope 4 ur training in Absu is lacking, dat he doesn't blame d doctors 4 maltreating optometrists. U're just ignorant!

Mandeyy:
@ Originbm, ignorance is d biggest disease u have 4 comparing optometry with dentistry. Go to Kenya and see dat optometry is not even recognized. It's even diploma and B.Sc dat it's called in Kenya. They're hardly employed. In America and Britain, they are marketers 4 companies selling eye glasses. In private practice, they're not making it in America and Britain, let alone Nigeria. Google and see. One of u dat even said d truth, Ezebuiroh, said dat even a functional slit biomicroscope 4 ur training in Absu is lacking, dat he doesn't blame d doctors 4 maltreating optometrists. U're just ignorant!

Moronic input. Different professional bodies in different countries stipulate the minimum benchmark for qualification. In india dentistry is a 4yr course with one yr internship.In pakistan it is a 4yr degree.Even in uk its a 5yrs course. Even in scotland they are not calked doctors.They are begging for recognition as doctors. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3329907/Dentists-claim-the-right-to-be-called-Dr.html Check out that link.
Harmonisation of professional standard is an issue in dentistry just like optometry.so dont speak nonsense. Australia awards bachelor of dental science.In 2009, a dentist in uk called John Stowell was investigated and sanctioned for using the title "doctor" in a magazine. He is still currently under sanction from ASA in uk. In America they are not under medical schools. They hv their own college just like optometry. The same number of years just like optometry. U said optometrists dont make it in uk or britain hahaha... U guys are claiming a right to be called doctors in many countries because u are given dds, yet you come here to spew thrash.
Dentistry will never compare with optometry in grossings in Nigeria. Please name one thriving dental clinic in Benin city. How much is tooth extraction-2000 naira. Thats what you want to become rich by. Just last month one of my doctor friends left for quatar for practice. He graduated in 2014. He is paid in dollars.q I hv friends in saudi, what is more, u r given 2yrs contract on the spot with an option of increasing it if u so wish. In that Kenya offers a bsc in optometry but only doctors of optometry lecture there. Most of them are Nigerian doctors. One of them is the owner of Our Lady's Eye Hospital in Benin city located at First East Circular rd. Ask around.Ghana offers doctor of optometry. Ezebuiroh is a critic and he is on point. The fact that one of the schools of optometry is not up and doing doesn't mean the profession is suffering. Even America with all her powers and immense wealth and development is still criticized by her citizens. That is called freedom of expression.The board can close down the school if truly they are incompetent. Will you now posit that because the accreditation of uniben to offer medicine was withdrawn in 2009, or pharmacy's in 2016, or because uniabuja has been perpetually disaccredited from operating law program their professions are dead or no longer profitable? Last two yrs, the medical students in anambra state university were protesting due to lack of facilities, they had no cadaver for their anatomy lectures. Last month medical doctor graduates were crawling the streets of Lagos bearing placards and asking for increased spobsorship for their residency programmes complaining that itcwas becoming impossible to get placement for residency training. Some cmds were even lambasted for short handed practices. So dont come here to spew rubbish. Every proffession has their own thorns. But even at that Optometry still waxes strong.Optometry clinic in Uniben is bigger and more equipped than the ophthalmology dept in ubth. And uniben optometry has two clinics, one in ugbowo and the other in ekenwa, both fully equiped. A critic is essential for the continued development of every organisation, and as psycholgical puncture for any abccess induced by complacency in the professional body. I wonder u were not taught that. Even an optical lab will do better than a dental clinic in Nigeria. Everbody knows that dentistry is not lucrative, so wat is the point of ur arguement.

U see why i said u're ignorant. In England, Scotland and some parts of Europe, dentists and surgeons (medical doctors who specialized in branches of surgery) are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss. Dentists are surgeons from d beginning, hence d title "mr, mrs or miss" while medical doctors are called doctors but if a medical doctor specialized in any aspect of surgery, he/she will no longer be addressed as a doctor; rather, he/she will be called a mr, mrs or miss. D reason being dat surgery and by extension, dental surgery were practised by barber surgeons who didn't go to sch then until surgery was finally integrated into medicine. B4 medicine was alone without surgery. But after integration, medicine became medicine & surgery while doctors then practised dentistry as a branch of medicine, until it became a formal study dat anybody (even a medical dr) must obtain a degree in, even after medical degree, b4 he/she can practise dentistry. Prof. Chima Oji, one of d pioneers of Dentistry at UNN, 1st studied medicin

@ Originbm, as i was saying, Prof. Chima Oji 1st studied medicine b4 obtaining anoda degree in dentistry (cos he loves dentistry). Have u ever seen a medical doctor studying optometry? Tell me. Optometry comes from optics (eye-related refraction of lens) and metron (measurement) in physics. British Dentists wanting to bear d title "dr" always state dat their patients do think dat an American dentist who bears d title "dr" and is practising in d UK is more qualified dan they (without realizing dat it's almost d same training). It has nothing to do with denigration. In Britain (Scotland is part of it), only doctors and dentists have d rights and privileges to admit, treat, manage and discharge a patient and not an optometrist. They even belong to d same Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) as their medical surgeon colleague, which is called FFDRCS (fellow, faculty of dentistry of d royal college of surgeons). This fellowship is got after a number of years of residency as their medical colleagues. Ignorance is bad.

@ Originbm, since u mentioned Pakistan, see what i got there about optometry. In Pakistan, it's said dat if u scored low in entrance exam, and cannot be admitted to study MBBS or BDS, u should think of optometry. See d link: http://www.studysolutions.pk/career-scope-oflig-od-in-pakistan-eligibility-tips-nature-of-work and http://www.optometrystudents.com/optometry-in-pakistan-a-students-message-of-hope-for-the-future-of-his-profession/

This is interesting indeed

Mandeyy......keep educating him....just educate him wella...
Also tell him that dental surgeons study medicine, surgery (including anastesiology, opthalmolgy, cadiothoracic, pediatric surgery, etc), pharmacology and therapeutics, pathology, basic Med sci, and also have to study restorative dentistry,peadiatrics, preventive and community dentistry, and oral and maxillofacial surgery (including its diagnoses, radiology, medicine and its pathology).........
Tell him that all this are studied simultaneously in 6yrs, such that a dental surgeon is not just a doctor but a special type of doctor.....a dentist!! Or dental surgeon as it is fondly called....
Tell him that a medical doctor studies medicine and surgery, but a dental surgeon studies medicine, surgery and dentistry at same time.....
Tell him that dentistry is not just teeth but the specialty that deals with the medicine, pathology, diagnoses, radiology and surgery of the oral cavity, that maxillo and facial region, the head and some part of the neck.....
Tell him that apart from the dental clinic and an oral maxillofacial units, that in every plastic surgery unit of any standard hospital like uch for instance, that we have a dentist who specialized in oral maxillo facial surgery being among the frontiers of plastic and aesthetic team.....
Tell him that some specialties in dentistry is part of emedicine( emmergency med) ask him how many emmergencies hv been encountered in optometry...
Tell him that there's a field called forensic dentistry for criminal cases and identification during mass accident and fire outbreak like bombing and plane crash....it was one of the measures taken by luth in identification of corpses after dana plane crash.......
Tell him that dentistry re not in the clinic to count teeth...

Just nine dental schools in nigeria, and u say there's no prospect for a country with billions of pple....ah! Oga think nah.....
They re special type of doctors......a doctor and a surgeon at same time
All dentists are doctors but not all doctors are dentists......

Mandeyy:
@ Originbm, since u mentioned Pakistan, see what i got there about optometry. In Pakistan, it's said dat if u scored low in entrance exam, and cannot be admitted to study MBBS or BDS, u should think of optometry. See d link: http://www.studysolutions.pk/career-scope-oflig-od-in-pakistan-eligibility-tips-nature-of-work and http://www.optometrystudents.com/optometry-in-pakistan-a-students-message-of-hope-for-the-future-of-his-profession/

I gave established facts and you are giving me opinion of people. Is dentistry not 4 yrs in pakistan? Are dentists doctors in uk? Answer the questions. There are many countries where dentists are not recognized as doctors. Professional harmonization is lacking in dentistry so stop yakking. U guys are doctorsonly where medicine's politics has favoured you. With Medicine's support u r still poor and insignificant. If medicine withdraws their support from u, even lab technicians will do better than you.