… Nationwide Postgraduate School Graduates 480
By Chioma Obinna
The Federal Authorities has unveiled recent funding plans and coaching reforms geared toward strengthening postgraduate medical schooling and curbing the exodus of well being professionals from Nigeria.
Talking on Thursday on the forty third Convocation Ceremony of the Nationwide Postgraduate Medical School of Nigeria (NPMCN) in Lagos, the Coordinating Minister of Well being and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammad Ali Pate, stated authorities was adopting a phased strategy to handle the challenges dealing with residency and specialist coaching.
Represented by the Director of Hospital Providers, Dr. Jimoh Saludeen, Pate stated postgraduate coaching remained vital to constructing a resilient well being system. “And not using a sturdy and well-trained workforce, no well being system can thrive. This makes the position of the Nationwide Postgraduate Medical School of Nigeria completely indispensable,” he famous.
The Minister listed precedence interventions together with: Particular funding to speed up specialist coaching, Measures to cut back mind drain, Entry to TETFund help because the nation’s apex postgraduate medical schooling establishment, Elevated budgetary allocation for residency programmes, and Enlargement of School actions throughout the six geopolitical zones.
He additionally assured that authorities was dedicated to finishing key infrastructural tasks on the School headquarters in Ijanikin, Lagos, together with the Senate Constructing and a Nationwide Medical Abilities and Simulation Centre. Plans are additionally underway to amass an Abuja workplace to strengthen the School’s nationwide footprint.
Different measures embody approving waivers for the recruitment of Fellows as Deputy and Assistant Registrars, offering devoted analysis funding, and investing in trendy simulation tools.
Congratulating the 480 graduates of the School—together with Fellows, MD awardees, and honourees—the Minister urged them to be “worthy ambassadors” of each the School and Nigeria. “Our discussions and insurance policies should translate into motion that can scale back mind drain, strengthen specialist coaching, and in the end ship a extra resilient, responsive, and people-centred well being system,” he stated.
Delivering the convocation lecture titled “A Pandemic, Examinations and a Diploma,” Prof. Solomon Kadiri mirrored on how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical coaching, spurred on-line studying, and formed reforms in postgraduate schooling. He highlighted key improvements comparable to standard-setting in examinations and the Physician of Drugs (MD) programme, which has already produced greater than 400 graduates.
Kadiri warned that though the COVID-19 virus seems weakened, vigilance stays important as a result of attainable long-term results.
In his welcome handle, NPMCN President, Dr. Peter Ebeigbe, famous that whereas mind drain continues to have an effect on fellowship enrolment, numbers are exhibiting indicators of stabilisation. Data present awards peaked at 459 in 2020, dropped to 310 in 2021, rose to 407 in 2023, however fell once more to 338 in 2024 earlier than the present yr’s rebound to 480.
He burdened that regardless of challenges, the School has continued to broaden coaching programmes throughout 16 schools and to honour distinguished Fellows, together with Dr. Sebastian Ndulue Nwosu, Dr. Dilli Dogo, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeanolue, and Dr. Fatiu Abiola Arogundade.
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