The National Universities Commission (NUC) has increased the number of years for studying medicine in Nigerian universities to seven years.
Prior to this development six years are spent in the medical school.
Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Julius Okojie, presented the reviewed curriculum to the stakeholders at a three-day capacity development programme for staff of medical schools in Nigerian universities where he said the new benchmark minimum academic standard was competency-based and would substantially address most of the challenges facing the institutions in the training of doctors in the country.
The NUC boss said doctors must be adequately trained and competent to discharge their responsibilities efficiently adding that the workshop was to enable the stakeholders make contribution to the draft document.
Okojie noted that the curriculum review was necessitated by the fact that the frontier of knowledge in all academic disciplines had been advancing with new information generated as a result of research.
