National Postgraduate Medical College will hold its eighth Annual Scientific Conference

National Postgraduate Medical College

The National Postgraduate Medical College will hold its eighth Annual Scientific Conference and All-Fellows’ Congress next week. The conference is scheduled between August 13 and 17. It will be hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

According to a statement signed by the Chairman of the Organising Committee, Prof Olusegun Ojo, this year’s conference, with the theme: The impact of Postgraduate medical education on the quality of healthcare delivery in Nigeria, will deliberate on the state of the nation’s health care delivery in the light of the standards of clinical practice worldwide.

The statement said the conference would attract specialists from every part of the country to address “contemporary matters of common interest” in all fields of medicine, adding that this has become necessary in view of the need to find innovative and sustainable ways of improving the standards of clinical practice in the country.

“The National College expects to use this conference to further draw attention to contemporary medical challenges confronting our nation, and proffer solutions to them. We also intend to examine the various challenges facing postgraduate medical education in Nigeria, and chart a new course that will ensure that we are leveraging on our various capacities and resources, using all technologies at our disposal, to achieve a better future for our profession and the populace at large,” the statement said.

Prof Ojo stressed that the conference will also discuss other issues such as health insurance, non-communicable diseases and child health care, as well as deliberate on the need to encourage specialisation among Nigerian doctors.