The National Universities Commission (NUC) has extended the training of doctors in universities to seven years (was formerly six years).

Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, presented the reviewed curriculum to the stakeholders at a three-day capacity development programme for staff of medical schools in Nigerian universities.

He said the new benchmark minimum academic standard was competency-based and would substantially address most of the challenges institutions in the country face in training doctors.

Okojie noted that those that people trust their lives must be adequately trained and competent to discharge their responsibilities efficiently.

He said the workshop was to enable the stakeholders brainstorm as well as fine- tune the draft document.

The curriculum review was necessitated by the fact that the frontier of knowledge in all academic disciplines had been advancing with new information generated as a result of research. Other compelling reasons included the need to update the standard and relevance of university education in the country as well as to integrate entrepreneurial studies as essential new platforms that would guarantee all graduates from Nigerian universities the knowledge of appropriate skills, competences and dispositions that would make them globally competitive and capable of contributing meaningfully to Nigeria’s socio-economic development.

Okojie said: "We must built some good quality hospitals and make facilities available for the students who are coming out with competences and skills to work. No doctor would want to work without equipment. "We are trying to look at it from holistic view. Good learning and teaching environment; good medical centres and the management of resource."

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i think it is a welcome development if they actually mean what they are saying. my cousin also complain to me that their lecturer did not teach them some topics "reason" time was not enough. but that 7yrs take style long oh.

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i think it is a welcome development if they actually mean what they are saying. my cousin also complain to me that their lecturer did not teach them some topics "reason" time was not enough. but that 7yrs take style long oh.

I think 7 years is too long. When it was still 6 years, most people spent close to 8 or 9'years. Now that it's 7 years,mit means we should expect 10 years. Hopefully it will be different with Buhari

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[size=15pt]Medical Students To Spend 7 Years In Nigerian Universities[/size]

The National Universities Commission is proposing a seven year programme as a benchmark for medical programmes in Nigerian universities.Medical experts are working on a one hundred and fifty eight page document that will meet the training needs of doctors and academic staff in Nigeria.