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*Medical students in Nigeria spend 11 years in the University
PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 15, 2022
I know I am a Cassander, however, I have never missed a prophecy, since my outspokenness. Sequel to my post in the morning on “MDCN Witch-Hunts on Foreign-Trained Doctors” (http://youngbenjy.blogspot.com/2022/12/mdcn-witch-hunts-on-foreign-trained.html); I think it should be an eye opener to other sectors in the Nigeria job market dissing so called foreign graduates.
Without any form of resentment, there is no need to believe that these foreign trained students are better off ours in Nigeria; I mean grades are not all there is in learning.
The mental rigour, inconveniences, harrassments, deficiencies and other family problems, which an average Nigerian student faces in the course of the study in our system should averagely make a graduate of Nigeria Tertiary Education a champion.
I mean, in foreign Education, you are almost spoon-fed; I looked at some of the Doctorate Programs, any smart person will finish the research in less than a year and my inability to secure a position yet, was the funding I was looking for, which is mainly given to their citizens and closer relatives than someone travelling 8,000 miles to occupy a benefit from their system.
Howbeit, it is still an icing on the cake, where the research is focused, less arduous and easier to complete, compared to our system where your Supervisor appears like a demigod, who, if you don’t worship, you going nowhere.
The only reason not to be frustrated is to stay clear of them, because most of them do not even look it.
I hardly have not seen any professor who is not a gas lighter as I had seen several of my colleagues frustrated out of the system, some to mental derangement, while some to death due to gaslighting strategy of our professors in Nigeria, who denied them promotions.
I am not going to play to such hands really and I am not here to tell you how to deal with them because that is not my purpose.
Nevertheless, the emotional challenges to overcome in the course of study in the Nigeria academia and educational system makes more tenacious graduates and individuals who are most likely to succeed in life.
However, an opportunity to study abroad is now losing its savor as the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, have just paved the way which other sectors might want to follow.
‘Assessment Examinations Test’ is the name. Before you can practice in Nigeria, irrespective of the country you studied, you are to take an Assessment Test, which most likely you will fail.
Funny but true, Nigeria lecturers are confusionists, their questions are crazy and I pity some of my students if I have to see the way other lecturers will set questions for undergraduates expecting them to answer in 2 hours; and that is even if the topics are covered intensively in class.
Well, this is not to wash down the work ethics of anybody but to show you that if you can pass in Nigeria university, you are a champion and invariably, you cannot come from any university overseas or abroad to ace the examinations questions in Nigeria, Never!
*Adebisi Benjamin Temidayo of Osun State University
Now, that the bulk of Foreign trained Medical Doctors failed the Examinations, by the MDCN, it apparently means they cannot Practice in Nigeria Hospitals or be licensed to work as physicians in Nigeria and most likely the chance of securing a medical job overseas is slim.
That’s what they call “being in limbo”. If every sector of the job market is doing that? I mean Banking, Telecom, Oil and gas, Pharmaceuticals, then, all you Foreign Educational tourists are in serious troubles shit.
Well, it could be a sigh of relief, as many of those who claimed to study overseas, appeared intimidating before now, but we have the MDCN, to save the reputation of Medical Education in Nigeria.
ASUU strike or no strike, you cannot come from a foreign country University to displace People who went through the ugly situations to have their pali (Certificates).
That’s just the truth.
MDCN is a pace setter and let other sectors of the job recruitment follow suit and let’s see whether you have not wasted the money your parents stole from Nigeria to study abroad.
It is a payback time. If not for foolishness, the war in Ukraine, which automatically alienated university education system for tourists should have taught a lesson that people should stop sending their kids to foreign countries to study.
All well and good, this should be a wakeup call for the Ministry of Education, Nigeria Universities Commission, NUC, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TET-Fund, and University Managements in Nigeria Academia to get things right in our dilapidated Academic System.
We can do it, if we left fraternity, hatred, unnecessary animosities, gaslighting and witch-hunt, in order to collectively build our educational structure again.
I believe in Nigeria and we can be great again.
My sympathies for my ogas, whose kids are studying abroad, you will be normal las las., Nah me talk am.
Adebisi Benjamin Temidayo lectures at Osun State University, Nigeria.
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