The National Universities Commission (NUC) has developed new Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards for training of doctors in
universities.
This comes with the extension of the duration of medical programme to seven years.
According to the Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, who presented the reviewed curriculum to the stakeholders at a three-day capacity development programme
for staff of medical schools in Nigerian universities, the new benchmark minimum academic standard was competency-based
and would substantially address most of the challenges faced the institutions in the training of doctors in the country.
Okojie noted that those that people trust their lives must be adequately trained and competent to discharge their responsibilities efficiently.
He said, "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."
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