FG Urged To Tackle Challenges Of Residency Training
Dr Innocent Ikpe, a general physician at the Maitama District Hospital, Abuja, has appealed to the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the challenges of residency doctors training in Nigeria.
“Securing a placement for residency has become a big problem for many fresh doctors in Nigeria.
“Some medical graduates now pay to be allowed to do the residency training.
“It is a dream of every doctor, who graduates to complete his specialist training programme to qualify as a specialist.
“But getting into one of these programmes is a mountain for the contemporary Nigerian doctor to climb,” he said.
He noted that these medical doctors who are unable to secure a placement of residency training have to settle for general practice.
He, however, said that Nigeria doctors should not be going through this kind of problems.
“If a young doctor managed to cross these hurdles of high cost of study and passed his exams, then residency should not be a problem to him or her, ” Ikpe said
He called on stakeholders to do the needful so that fresh doctors do not have to wait for long for residency training.
