Department of Pediatrics and Child Health

The Department of Paediatrics and child health was established in 2015. You will realize that this was three years after the Faculty of Health Sciences had opened its doors in 2013. Prior to that, the students had been studying basic sciences. When they completed and passed basic sciences courses, they were inducted into active clinical Pediatrics and child health. The first intake group was 13 students; these were expected to rotate through the five sub-disciplines of pediatrics e.g. general pediatrics, nutrition, neonatology, emergency pediatrics, and community pediatrics. These are five to seven (for 5th years) weeks rotations then students sit their end-of-course examinations and must pass before rotating to the next discipline. There will be eight Undergraduate student groups rotating through Pediatrics annually; Let alone the three groups of MPC programmes. 

Mission and Objectives

• Provide clinical knowledge, skills, and attitude of excellence to prospective doctors.
• nduct students to ethical treatment of their clients irrespective of gender, ethnicity, and economic standards
• To make them appreciate that medical practice is a sacrifice; where you put your client's welfare above else.
• Endurance in the face of numerous challenges natural, environmental, and man-made
• The above are meant to provide Health Care of Excellence to Individuals and Community

Staff Members