…. to graduate 656 at 38th convocation
BY FOLASHADE SHIYANBOLA
THE National Postgraduate Medical College, Ijanikin, Lagos, will on Thursday graduate 656 specialists at its 38th convocation.
Speaking at the pre-convocation press conference on Tuesday at the institution, the College President, Prof. Musa Borodo, said the convocation would feature awards of Distinguished Fellowship, Foundation Fellows, and Fellows by Examination, among others.
He added that the convocation, which would be held at the institution, would be by a hybrid of physical and virtual methods, occasioned by the new normal dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To date, the college has produced over 6,000 medical consultant specialists for the country serving in many key hospitals, university colleges of medicine and research institutes in Nigeria and abroad,” he said.
According to him, the college has saved Nigeria billions of dollars that would have been spent in postgraduate training of these personnel abroad.
He urged the Education Trust Fund to provide funding for national priority research projects being undertaken by residents of the college.
Borodo said this became necessary as the college had in the past engaged the Federal Ministry of Health in refining the National Priority Health Agenda to enable the college key into this through the many research projects its residents undertake annually that would impact positively in addressing National health problems.
He also appealed to government to keep faith with its budgetary commitment for residency training as well as provide the college with funds to do its regulatory work more effectively.
“Government is further urged to improve the employment opportunities and working environment of the graduated fellows in the country so as to discourage further brain drain that is steadily depleting the nation of its critical well trained health manpower.
The president added that in order to further strengthen academic excellence in the college’s academic programmes, the institution had continued to further improve on its training and examination processes through various innovations consistent with best international practice.
“Accordingly, Senate last year approved an anti-plagiarism policy and has deployed a standard anti-plagiarism check mechanism for the assessment of candidate at both the proposal and dissertation stages of Part 11 examinations,” he said.
