Medical University To Begin Herbal Studies

University of Medical Sciences, Ondo is set to begin courses in pharmacology, human nutrition, dietetics and herbal medicine.

Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Friday Okonofua, disclosed this during the matriculation of 524 students admitted for the 2017/ 2018 academic session.

Herbal medicine

Okonofua said that 134 students were admitted into the Faculty of Science, 97 into the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, 176 into the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, 81 into Medicine and 34 into Dentistry.

Also, 42 new clinical students of the MBBS/BDS of the university were inducted into the “ white coat ceremony”.

According to him, the new courses would commence in the 2018/ 2019 academic session.

He noted that a major achievement  of the institution was the approval given to it by the NUC to begin 13 academic courses.

The accreditation, he said, enabled 300 level students of Medical and Dentistry to do their first professional examination in only two years of the existence of the university.

“This is now being cited as a result order in contemporary history of medical education in Nigeria”.

The Vice Chancellor pointed out that the institution’s first set of doctors and dentists will graduate in 2019.