Despite brain drain challenge, NPMCN graduates 480 mew specialists

By Chioma Obi

The President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, Dr. Peter N. Ebeigbe, connected Wednesday said the College remains resilient successful its mandate to bid specialists contempt the interaction of encephalon drain connected fellowship numbers.

Speaking astatine a pre-convocation property league up of the College’s 43rd convocation ceremony, helium announced that 480 caller doctors volition person fellowships and different postgraduate awards this year.

Ebeigbe explained that this year’s awardees see 405 Fellows, 34 Doctor of Medicine recipients, 37 Diplomates successful Family Medicine, 4 Distinguished Fellows, and 4 postgraduate diploma recipients successful Anaesthesia and Public Health.

“Our graduands this twelvemonth are a testament to the resilience and brilliance of Nigerian doctors, adjacent successful the look of adversity. Together, we tin physique a wellness strategy Nigerians tin beryllium arrogant of,” helium said.

The College President noted that portion the College has sustained its output of specialists, the inclination of migration, popularly known arsenic japa, has had a noticeable effect connected postgraduate aesculapian training.

“From the information available, portion it is hard to reason that the dependable driblet caused by the ‘Japa syndrome’ has stopped, it appears that immoderate stableness successful numbers whitethorn beryllium mounting in,” helium said.

Records from the College amusement that fellowship awards peaked astatine 450 and 459 successful 2019 and 2020, earlier dropping sharply to 310 successful 2021. In caller years, the numbers roseate again to 407 successful 2023 but dipped to 338 successful 2024.

Despite the challenges, Ebeigbe highlighted respective milestones, including the enlargement of postgraduate grooming programmes.“The Faculty of Emergency Medicine, our sixteenth faculty, has reached the signifier wherever its archetypal cohort of trainees volition beryllium for their Part 1 Fellowship Examinations successful October 2025,” helium said.

Other innovations see the instauration of interventional radiology, atomic medicine, interventional cardiology, symptom medicine, and captious attraction medicine crossed assorted faculties. The College has besides accredited implicit 200 grooming centres nationwide, expanding entree to specializer grooming successful underserved regions.

Ebeigbe besides pointed to the College’s integer transformation.

“Much of our administrative, monitoring, evaluation, and appraisal processes are present done successful existent clip online. We behaviour portion of our examinations done unafraid computer-based investigating crossed aggregate centres nationwide,” helium explained.
On planetary collaborations, helium disclosed that the College is deepening partnerships with sister institutions successful the UK, USA, and Africa. These see precocious discussions with 5 Royal Colleges and collaborations with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, arsenic good arsenic the East, Central, and South African College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Despite economical challenges, the College President reaffirmed the institution’s committedness to innovation and relevance.

“We continually reappraisal our curricula to align with evolving healthcare needs and planetary trends, including telemedicine, genomics, and artificial quality successful objective care,” helium said. Ebeigbe called connected government, the backstage sector, and planetary partners to prolong enactment for postgraduate aesculapian grooming successful Nigeria.

“This convocation is not conscionable astir certificates and titles, but astir the committedness of improved healthcare for our people,” helium stated.

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