The Nigerian Medical Association has rejected moves by Enugu State government to appoint a vice chancellor on condition of holding a PhD. Enugu State University Teaching Hospital recently put up an advert stating a PhD as a condition to appoint a new vice chancellor.
But NMA believes an MBBS—the bachelor’s degree doctors get after medical college—is
equivalent to a PhD in both content and curriculum.
It also means a post-graduate fellowship from the National Postgraduate Medical College/West African College is “superior to PhD,” said the association’s national officers committee which met in Abuja last week.
“We therefore call on the authorities of the university to include in their advert the fellowship of these colleges as an alternative of PhD as already endorsed by the National Universities Commission,” said the association’s chairman Dr Kayode Obembe in a statement released after the meeting.
source:medicalworldnigeria
But NMA believes an MBBS—the bachelor’s degree doctors get after medical college—is
equivalent to a PhD in both content and curriculum.
It also means a post-graduate fellowship from the National Postgraduate Medical College/West African College is “superior to PhD,” said the association’s national officers committee which met in Abuja last week.
“We therefore call on the authorities of the university to include in their advert the fellowship of these colleges as an alternative of PhD as already endorsed by the National Universities Commission,” said the association’s chairman Dr Kayode Obembe in a statement released after the meeting.
source:medicalworldnigeria
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