The Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON) has revealed that the medical curriculum of undergraduate and post graduate students will be reviewed periodically to follow modern trends in the face of present day realities.
This has become imperative as nutrition in pregnant women and breast feeding mothers as well as in adolescents is presently not taught at undergraduate and post graduate levels of academic pursuit.
The president of SOGON, Prof Brian Adinna who disclosed this in Abuja after the society’s 50th anniversary, said the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) will collaborate with the National Universities Commission (NUC) in achieving the laudable feat. “We live in a dynamic world and things must be done periodically. You have to change whatever programmes you have and that includes the curriculum and that includes undergraduate and post graduate levels of education”
“We don’t teach our undergraduate students nutrition as it concerns a pregnant woman, a woman that is breastfeeding and also in an adolescent. This also affects several other countries. This means in the review of the curriculum, such things must be included.”
“Nutrition is very fundamental. If a child is born and the child is malnourished and that child is going through child bearing stage in a malnourished state, it means such a person will give birth to a malnourished baby and the vicious cycle continues.”
“Whatever needs to be done must be communicated to students at the undergraduate and post graduate level. Nutrition is one aspect that is new in the world which is to be incorporated into the curriculum. Another is on reproductive rights. They are not properly entrenched in the curriculum and the new curriculum that should be revised should bring these things in and there are several others.”
“We need to do the periodic revision, merge it and pass it on to the Nigerian and Medical Council of Nigeria and the NUC so that we can begin to have a robust curriculum at both graduate and undergraduate level.”
By: Kuni Tyessi
Leadership News
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