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WHERE EXACTLY DOES THE PROBLEM LIE?
The two major institutions to blame are the University and the MDCN. They each have an equal share of blame. The University kick-started a program it wasn't ready to run and was reluctant in meeting up to standards even though it had students paying and showing up every day. The school is also to blame for over-admitting students beyond its prescribed quota, an issue they have corrected by indexing students according to MDCN requirements and ensuring 20 students per class while making arrangements to transfer excess students to other Faculties and institutions to complete their studies.
However, since the school has accepted blame and put in sufficient effort to ensure they meet up with MDCN's requirements, I will not focus on the University but on MDCN and what is increasingly becoming a pattern in its operation: the weaponization of power.
Despite the invitation by the University with details of steps it has taken to fulfill MDCN's requirements, the MDCN has resorted to one of its most inhumane attitudes in treating such issues—silence. According to reports from meetings between the University Management, Students body and Parents, the MDCN Registrar has taken it upon herself as duty to punish the University for personal administrative issues they have with the Vice Chancellor and in extension the University. The method for punishment is to refuse to respond to invitations for accreditation without giving a clear timeline for possible visitation or an explanation for the delays. The students once made attempts to petition MDCN in the National Assembly but their petition was shelved to protect the image of the Council in the international community. Engagements with the Minister of Education and Minister of Health have yielded nothing. Students cannot complain in public because MDCN has a rule that penalizes that with stringent measures. It has become more of a situation where no one can ask questions and get answers. Even the University management have resigned to fate further dampening the already crushed spirits of the students and parents. Considering that students have spent unnecessary long time in school, one expects MDCN to treat their issue as an urgent issue requiring immediate solution. This has nothing to do with reducing standards but of upholding standards with a sense of humanity. Maybe MDCN just doesn't know the impact and its ripple effects on students and the country's health care as a whole. MDCN does not only have a responsibility to be effective but also to be efficient and the constitutional principles that guide their activities gives allowance for flexibility in being efficient without compromising standards.
What makes it worrying is this inhumane attitude by MDCN is not peculiar to the University of Jos. Currently, the University of Ilorin medical students are complaining about a similar treatment having completed their training but MDCN is delaying inducting some of them due to such administrative bottlenecks. These bottlenecks are usually shrouded in "upholding standards" however the so-called standards tend to only apply in some instances while being overlooked in other instances. For instance, University of Ilorin is struggling with not being able to get MDCN to induct 175 medical students because according to MDCN, they exceed the quota of 150 appointed to the school; however, the same MDCN just inducted a class of dental students in University of Maiduguri in January and guess what, the number of inductees almost doubles their allocated quota. It leaves us wondering why the double standards, lack of transparency and silence. Is it truly about upholding standards or just about punishing certain institutions?
Well, we’ve resulted to encouraging ourselves and at this point, we are just tired, most of us don give up self.
And yeah, it will interest you that the school has not checked up on us once.
MDCN and Unilorin, you’ve won.
@MDCNOfficial@UnilorinNGR@FatimaKyari@Fmohnigeria
The health system in the country is bleeding. Rather than allow more young qualified, and eager hands, Unilorin and/or MDCN are holding us back for no just cause.
I really need Medical Doctors to share how they felt in the build up to their own induction, and on the day of their induction. And maybe medical students can share their anticipation for that day when they affirm the oath.
Just so you know how much joy we've been robbed of.
Only today I was reading NARD President's tweet @mohagirei about how there are more senior registrars than house officers. Yet, scores of medical students aren't being allowed to induct in Unilorin.
I'm truly ashamed of my Alma mater and disappointed in the MDCN.
you are an embarrassment to medical schools.
Graduate these guys...
Parents, avoid this university if your children want to study medicine and surgery!!!
I'm concerned. What really would it take? What exactly is the issue that warrants us being delayed this much? 25 of us passed the same exams that the 150 earlier inducted passed. The remaining 19 passed the resit exams. So what EXACTLY stops us from being inducted?
Unilorin and unnecessary excuses, this is 2026, for goodness’ sake.
Let’s even set aside the issue of the medical graduands for a moment. What about the Medical Laboratory Science students who are currently stuck as “hanging graduates,” uncertain about their academic and professional future?
These are students without carryovers, yet they are now facing an automatic extra year because of administrative negligence. For months and years, there have been repeated claims and reassurances about course accreditation, yet nothing tangible has changed. This is not a new issue, and it is certainly not something the school is unaware of till it got this bad.
Students who carefully planned their lives and career timelines are now forced into uncertainty. An entire year that should have been spent on externship and gaining professional experience is being lost.
Do you truly care about the students, or is the priority simply revenue generation? All you care for is to milk students and their parents by draining them financially just to increase the school’s IGR.
No fewer than 44 medical graduates from the College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, have yet to be inducted into the medical profession due to issues relating to overused quotas for medicine.
The clarification came after affected students raised concerns on X (formerly Twitter), lamenting they had yet to be inducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
Right from 200L to 600L, when we were preparing for our final MB, we had always been clamoring that we were above the quota, and the school’s response was always, “Yours is to pass. Leave the induction to us, it’s our headache.”
It’s our headache now 🤦🏻♂️
#induct44unilorindoctors
The only way to allay our fear is to give us an induction Date.
6 months have passed since our final exam, 3 months since 1st batch inducted. Schools such has OOU, ABUAD, LASU among others have inducted in excess of their quotas.
Pls do the needful we want to be inducted we want to move forward.
#Induct44unilorindoctors