Applications are invited for admission into the Community Health Officers' Course for 2014/15 session, which will commence in August, 2014. 

1. ENTRY QUALIFICATION

(A) Holders of Diploma in Community Health with not less than two years post qualification experience plus, five (5) Credit level passes in SSCE (WASCE, NECO or GCE OIL) at not more than two sittings, which must include; English Language, Mathematics and Biology/Health Science. 

(B) Community Health Extension Workers with 5 years experience and five (5) Credit level passes in SSCE (WASCE, NECO or GCE OIL) at not more than two sittings, which must include: English Language, 

Mathematics and Biology/Health Science. 

(C) Preference will be given to Community Health Extension Workers that have done the abridgement programme in Schools of Health Technology, for the award of Diploma in Community Health. 

(D) Applicants must be registered, with the Community Health Practitioners' Registration Board of Nigeria 

and posses a valid practice license. 

2. DURATION OF COURSE 

This is a 2 year Residential Course, leading to the award of Higher Diploma in Community Health by the Community Health Practitioners' Registration Board of Nigeria and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. 

3. LOCATION OF COURSE 

Most activities connected with the course. including lectures, will take place at the LUTH Primary Care Complex at Pakoto (Ifo Local GovemmentArea of Ogun State and the surrounding villages, except when it is necessary for students to go to LUTH ldi-Araba Lagos, for lectures. 

METHOD OF APPLICATION 

Application letter with photocopies of credentials and 2 passport sized photographs should be addressed to:- 

THE CO·ORDINATOR (CHO PROGRAMME) 

INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE 

LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL 

P. M. B. 12003, LAGOS, NIGERIA 

and should be accompanied with the receipt of the application fee of N5,000 (five thousand Naira). Fees are payable in cash to the Cash Office ofthe Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba. 

CLOSING DATE OF APPLICATION 

Closing date for application is Wednesday the 28th of May, 2014. Test & Interview will be conducted on Friday and Saturday the 30th & 31 st of May, 2014, respectively, in the Lecture Theatre Block of the Institute of Child Health and Primary Care, LUTH PHC Complex, Pakoto, Ogun State. 

Further invitation to attend interview will not be issued. Candidates should bring to the interview, originals of their credentials, letters of sponsorship from their Local Government Institution and also Attestation letters from their employers stating that they will practice Primary Health Care at the end of the course. Successful 

applicants will be informed subsequently. 

Signed

PROF. AKIN OSIBOGUN 

CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR