Ondo state-owned University of Medical Sciences has entered into a partnership with the West African College of Physicians (WACP) for the training of Medical doctors in PhD in Clinical Studies.
The national chairman and vice president of WACP, Jeremiah Aboi Madanaki, said the partnership with UNIMEDS sought to provide a PhD that would make available a set of skills that were complementary to the professional training of medical doctors in Nigeria in particular and West Africa in general.
Madanaki explained that WACP was a specialized agency of the West African Health
Organizations are charged with the responsibility of training postgraduate medical doctors.
He said the institution trained doctors in six specialties Family Medicine, Community Health, Laboratory Medicine, External Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics.
His words: “We already have what we call the fellowship program which is the professional training of the doctors to allow those human resources to provide high-quality services.
“What we seek in the PhD in clinical studies is to look at those complementary skills that could actually further enhance what we do as professional doctors.”
He said: “UNIMED is the first university that WACP is signing this MOU with. In a world where there is a greater drive for the science research component, that is where this complementary partnership is coming in and we are very ready as a university because we have the resources in terms of human resources and infrastructure.
“I want to say that we have also started test-running this because we have the pilot programme. We are proudly again the only university in West Africa to have signed a partnership with the West Africa College of Surgeons which is the brother to WACP.
“WACP is coming in just to deepen, to strengthen, and to broaden what we are doing. The advantage of this partnership is that if people come to do this postgraduate, they don’t need to rely on just our staff to be their supervisor, we are bringing in all the expertise that is available in WACP, to support this. It is beyond what you can get in any university because of that unique partnership and strength that we are bringing in and the wild dimensions of experience and expertise that are going to come to this partnership.
“It is a partnership like none and a partnership that will drive the health professionals in Nigeria forward and everyone will be a winner, not just in our university and in WACP, but also in our nation and entire countries across West Africa.”
