Between the 19th and 21st of October, 2015, the NOA president, Dr. Damian Echendu was at the Plymouth University, UK on invitation. During the visit, he met and interacted witha high-powered management team in the School of Health Professions. In the Plymouth team were Paul H. Artes, PhD(Professor & Academic Lead in Optometry, School of Health Professions, Plymouth University), Lyn Westcott (Associate Head of the School of Health Professions, Internationalisation and Academic Lead in Occupational Therapy,Plymouth University).
Key discussions were centered on cross-fertilisation of knowledge and ideas for capacity-building, with emphasis on the possibilities of exchange programme, graduate and post-graduate studies, etc. Some dividends incident on this meetinclude:
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3 months clinical externship in Plymouth. The optometry school at Plymouth will henceforth be welcoming Six hundred levels optometry students from Nigeria for 3 months externship. Substantial plan is already ongoing as per funding from Rotary International to facilitate. Interested Nigerian optometry students are to make the necessary contacts and accreditation with the NOA in readiness. Masters in Clinical Research programme. The institution is also providing an avenue for Nigerian optometrists to build basic capacities for research. This programme will provide an excellent opportunity for those of us in the academia. It will have on offer, open £2000 scholarship and £5000 headline scholarship for outstanding Nigerian optometrist applicants. Qualification for the headline scholarship will be based on completion of a short assignment and interview via Skype/telephone.
Working visits to Plymouth by optometry lecturers from Nigeria. The Plymouth team expressed keenness to receive our lecturers on sabbaticals and is already expecting from us a list of interested individuals/institutions.
Visit by University of Plymouth optometry students to Nigeria optometry schools/clinics. They believe that this could be transformative for both young students setting out on a career and potential post-graduates wishing to develop a role in ophthalmic public health, developmental work etc. They are looking forward to our facilitating this from our end here and have their students benefit from this.
It is expected that this relationship will be symbiotic to the optometry community in both countries.
In a related development, the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board of Nigeria (ODORBN) organized a stakeholders meeting on the 24th of October, 2015 at the conference hall of Bellwood Hotel, Asaba in Delta state. This exercise was at the auspices of NUC and was aimed at updating and harmonizing the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) for optometry programme in Nigeria. In attendance were the heads of all Optometry schools in Nigeria, the Registrar of the Nigerian College of Optometry (NCO) who chaired the occasion, NOA delegation led by the President, current and past registrars of the ODORBN as well as some former heads of Optometry schools in Nigeria. The summit achieved its purpose by harmonizing and updating both the graduate and postgraduate optometry programmes in Nigeria. The final draft has been submitted to NUC for implementation.
Source: Nigerian Optometric Association
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