THE STUDY OF MEDICINE IN NIGERIA

Age long as human evolve consciousness and science, the search for survival and good living is indelibly in no doubt the priorities of life. Nigeria her self is not left out in such a struggle for life. The traditional medicine which was practice by our fore fathers and hitherto, through the use of roots, leaves, shrubs, and herbs is one of the earliest form of medicine in Nigeria.

The incursion of the study of modern medicine was in 1948 after the establishment of the university of Ibadan in 1943 by the then collonial administration following the directive of the British government through the collonial secretary of states to establish colleges, universities and other institution of higher learning in all the collonial areas. For the foundation medical student, the facilities provided by the native administration's hospital at Adeoyo and the government Jericho hospital for which the falculty of medicine was responsible were inadequate . Consequently, medical student of the earlier years went to london university for clinical training . these continued untill when the Nigerian government made available funds for the 500 bed university teaching hospital which was completed in 1957 following which medical student were fully trained in Ibadan. The first batch graduated in 1960

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