The recently-inaugurated Committee on the Status of Medical Education in Nigerian Universities has met with the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, to present an interim report on their assigned task.
This is as the NUC reiterated its stance on the need for medical doctors in the academics to acquire Master’s and doctorate degrees to enable them attain the rank of professors.
According reports, there have been controversies over the need for medical doctors to acquire Master’s and doctorate degrees following the acquisition of medical fellowships.
The NUC’s Executive Secretary reiterated that the recently introduced Doctor of Medicine program was for an entirely different purpose from the original medicine by fellowship program, saying that one can never replace the other.
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According to a statement posted on the NUC website, Rasheed received the team led by the NUC Deputy Executive Secretary, Academics, Noel Saliu.
The Executive Secretary said that the committee still has much work to do in areas such as: Basic Medical, Allied Health, Dentistry as well as Basic Clinical and Clinical Sciences as they were all part of medicine.
He urged the committee to work assiduously to generate a reliable record and status of medical education in Nigeria.
He urged them to dig deep into those salient issues that would restore the pride of medical education especially by looking into whether the nation’s available medical colleges have training facilities for students and if the students are also properly trained.
He applauded the medical doctors who had refused to engage in unsavoury issues, stating that it was through persistence that he was able to get medical doctors together to look at the medical curriculum.
He stressed that medical education had to change and expressed his delight about the changes brought into the medical curriculum.
The Executive Secretary further said that NUC had initially wanted to disassociate itself from the medical postgraduate institution that tried to exercise undue powers by awarding PhD’s, arguing that people could become world-class scholars in medicine but that a PhD in medicine makes it more complete.
He reiterated that PhD should be more of research, adding that without Master’s and PhD, no one would emerge as a Professor in Medicine.
He urged the committee to do its best to bring out a good document on the status of medicine in Nigeria.
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