THIS IS ABOUT MY SCHOOL
The medical school at the University of Nigeria is one of the most prestigious medical schools in the country. The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital is about the only centre in Nigeria where Open Heart Surgery is performed on a regular basis. Presently the hospital is sited at a temporary site in the "Old Park" area of Enugu behind the Main Market.

The permanent site is nearly complete. It is sited at Ituku-Ozalla about 20km from Enugu. Clinics hold at Ituku-Ozalla and the faculty of Dentistry is almost wholly there.




UNTH holds a number of firsts such as;

• First Open Heart Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa in 1974
• First Cardiothoracic Centre of Excellence in Nigeria in 1983
• First Successful Quintuplet delivery
• First Siamese Twin seperation in Nigeria

and lots more....


Generally doctors in Africa are trained to be very good clinicians who rely more on a meticulous history and physical examination than on sophisticated investigations. 

MY COLLEAGUES

about time you met some of em......

Dumebi

"Dum Dum" is a good friend. Likes to talk with people and also has great ideals which she lives up to. She encourages people a lot not to give up and has a great smile.

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Golibe

It is pronounced GO-LEE-BAY. Well recently I "yabbed" him with the word "Gullible" in the "yab". Golliwog is brilliant and sharp witted with a great sense of humor. We are working on a research project together. Obviously he has a great future. One quality about him is striking - HIS EVERLASTING YOUTHFULNESS. We think he will remain this young looking till he is 40. 

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Chibudibu

Chibudibu is my neighbour. He saved my life 2 days ago. I got a high fever spiking 39.5 and was far from the medical center. He tidied the rest.

Chibudibu is laughter prone. He has a very active tickle centre but he doesn't take lightly to practical jokes. 

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Chinelo

Chinelo is very quiet. Her voice is like a song ie. she sings out every word she says. (Try talking to her and you will notice it).

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Been quite a while since I posted last.

Ophthalmology is a lot of fun. It is full of high tech equipment and the doctors are very meticulous about everything.

I'm Kene, a 5th year medical student at the University of Nigeria in Enugu and I would like to show you a bit of my world. The Excitement Never Ends. I hope you like it.
I was born in Kaduna, Nigeria where I spent my childhood. Kaduna is a metropolitan town in Northern Nigeria with a more or less heterogeneous outlook. Early childhood was fun. I loved reading story books and watching TV. I started watching football around 1992 and I am a fervent football fan till today (supported in chronological order Ajax, Deportivo, AS Roma and Barcelona).
I got into the University of Nigeria to study medicine in March 2001. In first year we mainly did Advanced Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses. In second year and part of 3rd year, we did Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology. Next came Pharmacology and Pathology.
After that I have been doing a series of postings in the Teaching Hospital for the past 12 months (Medicine, Surgery, Community Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Otolaryngology). Presently I am doing a posting in Ophthalmology.

My aim of keeping this blog is to express all the fun we have in our daily rounds in the hospital (especially to the uninitiated). Medical School is definitely not as serious as portrayed in "House/ER", neither is it totally ludicrous and unbelievable as seen in "Scrubs". However you need a good sense of humour to go through medical school and this is expressed precisely in this blog.