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THE executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has made clarification on the controversy between the recently introduced Doctor of Medicine programme and the original Medicine by Fellowship by Fellowship programme, saying one can never replace the other.
He noted that the Doctor of Medicine programme was introduced for an entirely different purpose from the original medicine by fellowship programme.
Rasheed gave this clarification at a meeting with the leadership of the National Postgraduate Medical College (NPMC), led by the President, Professor Akinsanya Osibogun, to his office, Abuja.
He explained that based on current trends, there must be a way to encourage research in clinical sciences by professionals like medical scientists, pathologists, non-clinical dermatologists, non-clinical medical laboratory scientists, biochemists, medical microbiologists and professions that go under the cover of health science to be allowed to make publications from their research capable of bringing about solutions to the revolutionary health issues on health.
