Why young doctors, others experience internship placement difficulties – Survey

It is now a perennial problem for fresh medical graduates and others in related medical sciences to secure placements in the nation’s tertiary health institutions for further training and specialisation. Also, some of them like fresh Dietitians and Nutritionists, specialists in the study of food and nutrition in relation to health, have only four institutions where they can go for their internship. These are the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. A national survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) indicates that the situation is so because of inadequate funding, lack of infrastructure and regulation of the number of medical students. Some stakeholders in the health sector believe that these were some of the factors hindering the absorption of doctors, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists, radiog