First
batch of UDS clinical students begin training
Tamale, Feb. 3, Ghanadot/GNA - The first
batch of 31 clinical students of the School of Medicine
and Health Sciences of the University for Development
Studies would begin their practical medical training at
the Tamale Teaching Hospital on Wednesday.
The students would for the fist time in the history of
the UDS, undertake their medical internship at the
hospital in three phases, consisting of 36 weeks each
for the first and second years, while they would do 18
weeks in the third year.
Professor Kaku Sagary Nokoe, Acting Vice Chancellor of
the UDS announced this at the joint induction ceremony
for the medical students and inauguration of the UDS-School
of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Governing Board
in Tamale on Tuesday.
He noted that the number of physicians per 1000 people
in Ghana was as low as 0.1, as against 0.5 for low
income countries and 2.9 for high income countries,
saying that the situation in Northern Ghana was worse.
He said the UDS with its pro poor mandate and Community
Based Extension Services (COBES) would be able to train
and place sufficient numbers of doctors and
doctors–in-training at the various health centres in the
53 districts of the three northern regions and the
Brong-Ahfo region in the near future.
Professor Nokoe commended the sister medical schools in
Accra and Kumasi, who over the past ten years had
assisted in the training of their medical students.
Addressing the nine-member Governing Board of the SMHS,
which has Professor Mumuni Dakubu as Chairman, Professor
Nokoe assured them of the support of the UDS management
and “minimal-to-zero interference” in the conduct of the
affairs of the School.
Professor Dakubu said that the facilities at the Tamale
Teaching Hospital were not the best and appealed to the
authorities to properly equip it to enable the students
get first class training.
GNA
