₦airaland Forum

ebera: Just for the sake of those that needs enlightenment; I stumbled on the functions of a CMD of a hospital.

''The Chief Medical Director is the
Hospital’s Chief Executive and in that
capacity has responsibility for the day-to-
day management of the entire hospital
under the broad direction of the Board of
Management. The Chief Medical Director
in addition directs responsibility for key
Departments like Accounts and Finance,
Internal Audit, Information and
Communication Technology Unit
(ICT), SERVICOM, Public
Relations, Engineering, Planning,
Security Services. Stores & Supplies, Staff
development, as well as relationship with
external bodies. The statutory role of the
Chief Medical Director is that of an over-
all coordinator of the entire functions of
the hospital. Each Director may be
ascribed specific responsibility for a group
of activities, The Chief Medical Director
has global responsibility even for the
functions assigned to the various
directors.'
Source:Oauthc.com/cmdoffice.aspx
I rest my case.....
So, why will doctors usurp thid power when it is purely administrative.mtchewwww

Elythron16zero4: I am a pharm but u see i think everyone is important in the health system. The doctors have forgotten that they use drugs to treat patients or does their training include drug productions. If in the World today all pharms stop producing drugs, what alternative is left with the doctors to use? Herbs? when they are not native doctors. come to think of it if all us studies medicine and become doctors, who will be the other things including the patients. On a lighter note; if all patients should go on strike by refusing to go to the hospitals which is not possible medical doctors may become vet. doctors if that happens .that's to show that even the patients who don't work in the hospitals are equally important(least to say other health workers) because without them doctors won't treat animals/trees after all . please, lets respect other peoples professions while we all know our limits. sometimes i am tempted to pick up DE form and enroll for medicine because of the way our doctors are over-celebrated here as if other professions are not relevant. May be i will consider that option if all this hullabaloo continues

armadeo: enlighten us.

Doclight: herbal?

Is it medical?

Thought there are titled "naturalists" rather than dr?

Doclight: which medical course is seconded to medicine/surgery in terms of populous? And why?

Med. Lab?
Optometry?
Denistry?
Pharmacy?
Biochemistry?
Microbiology?
Physiology?
Nursing science?
Physiotherapy? Etc.

Please medics comment

Homguy: You are one smart dude! Going by this reply.

otokx: Medicine still remains the most sought after course in University. Its the top of the medical courses. Pharmacy may be tedious but its not among the top 3 most sought after medical courses in UNIPORT. Those are hard bare facts from the records. Pharmacy is not near tedious as Medicine, do you guys do clinicals?

vicenzo: To avoid such costly mistakes by the charlatans called lab scientists and university pathologists with B.sc, doctors with MBBS are now going into pathology and lab science post graduate studies, to displace those charlatans and bring efficiency in correct diagnosis of diseases by combining clinical and theoritical knowledge in arriving at proper results. Doctors are going to save the day, so chillax.


Pharmacy harder than MBBS? Haha! Let me tell you now, at least 50% of the students who ended up studying Pharmacy, Med lab, Radiology, Nursing( especially male Nurses),Physiotherapy,etc. All wanted MBBS,but were not good enough to meet the criteria needed for admission into MBBS programmes.


They all grow up envying Medics, and when they graduate, they end up envying Doctors.

Ummuja: der r hosp policies dt dnt alow it so dt d drs r nt rendered useless evn wen dy r arwnd if nt dier strike wl nt mean anythg,report frm luth says its jst dier presence dt is lackn bt evrythg is mvn smoothly

dumodust: are u on drugs? seriously try for once to be coherent... mr english corrector, who doesnt know its self esteem all except u... an old man failure in his 3rd university after his olodo head couldnt pass and get admission to read medicine and what's the meaning of the bolded above, re-read your write up and see how your sentences have no thought stream and i ask frankly, are u high on marijuana? ... 40 yr old in 300level talking as if he has a degree

Ulonwadi: Last time I checked MBBS is Bachelor of medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, if the medical doctor can be called Doctor even though he has a bachelors degree then why shouldn't the Pharm D holders have a right to answer whatever they want to. I personally believe only PhD holders should be called doctors, that's my opinion and I won't force it down anybody's throat or insult anyone who chooses to be addressed as such. I have a Pharm D from the University of Benin and I can tell you that, that degree makes a lot of sense and all pharmacists should ensure that they at least upgrade their degrees to Pharm D. The course content is so rich and the knowledge you gain beats B Pharm anyday. little wonder that the high level drug companies in naija scramble for uniben products. During my internship, I was appalled by the B Pharm holders from other schools I worked with and felt sad that they themselves didn't even know their deficiencies. However at the end of the day the most important thing is improved provision of health care to the man on the street, if the Pharm D can equip the pharmacist with the skills to achieve that aim, then only a lunatic would complain about the fact that the Pharmacist bears the appellation of Dr

dorange: hw do you all tink sef, if these boko haram were really Muslims, will they be bombing deir fellow Muslims ehn....am sure 80percent of the people in that market are Muslims. So y'all need to get this into your brain, boko haram are not muslims or neither are they fighting for islam.

Meestique: I hope u'd be able to repeat this with a knife on ur throat?

Guykhena: Can someone tell me the difference between Nigeria now and the middle-East ?

Evergreen123: there is nothing there.
Another worthwhile thing to do is not to rise tomorrow and protest to do a doctors job.

Evergreen123: Lolz.
Ph.D is not M.D nah

Samakinr: ...ah what is this one saying...you think everyone argues like you on a factless point?.....go to university college, London...and come back to talk with me. Bro

obayaya: And what's in the link you sent me? list of universities accredited for pharmacy in Nigeria? Wetin I wan use am do?

Bros Have a nice day jare.

One advice though... Don't fall trying to raise a flag

Evergreen123: That's the whole essence, to be called Dr, I get it

obayaya: You know why I asked you about Uniport?

I wanted to point out how the faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences is struggling to sandwich all the curriculum into 5 years. Not to talk of the obvious deficiency in facilities.

And you are still suggesting that an additional 1 year with whatever load is gonna carry should be added and at the end you'll be awarded a Pharm.D degree?

PCN should sit their ass down and review the B.Pharm curriculum, enrich it and make it more relevant to the practice of pharmacy today. Improve the facilities and encourage research.

Pharm.D certificate with the same B.Pharm knowledge is deceit and

Evergreen123: Y on earth will a doctor be threatened by a pharm.D certificate, the more u guys say these tnz, the more doctors shake their heads on you.
MBBS incorporates clinical pharmacology 10x and a host of other tnz.
Even in the advanced countries, pharmacists are confined to drugs and not patients, ranging from dispensing in hospitals to industrial work.
Everybody should mind their business

obayaya: This post goes a long way to show that all you guys are interested in is a fight for relevance.

If you guys do all these courses that in your B.Pharm, what else are you guys fighting for? You already have the basic knowledge to be able to help the doctors in the wards.

PCN should work out modalities that will enable Pharmacists in the hospitals have advanced interaction with patients.

Isn't that what all this is about?

obayaya: Oooops!!!

Now I see why you're raising your voice here. It's all good though.

Cheers mate. Happy Sunday

obayaya: Answer yes or no, then maybe we can look objectively at your clamor for Pharm.D using the facilities and the curriculum at the faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences in Uniport as a point of reference.

You game?

Pennywise: Why are architects not callesd Dr sb since they spent 6yrs.

Even medical doctors in the US are mostly addressed with the suffix M.D.

obayaya: You're studying pharmacy in Uniport right?

the general84: I wish I could give this post 1000 likes

Pennywise: Sharrap. U dont understand what is at play here. Ur leaders are using u as a pon in a game of chess. They dont care about you or the pharmacy profession.

@zeezabee this is a response to you too.

Pennywise: It is not in doubt that Nigerian pharmacists need a more didactic curriculum to become better professionals even if it means increasing study yrs to 6.

But that doesnt entitle them and optometrists to the prefix 'Dr'. Architects spend 6yrs in sch, yet they are not addressed with the prefix 'Dr'. In the US pharmD or not pharmacists are not called doctor sb except in Nigeria.

zeezahbee: You took the words from my mouth. thumbs up