The newly inducted medical doctors from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Awka taking oath
Newly inducted madical doctors have been Urged to keenly observe professionalism in their practice.
The Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Prof. Greg Nwakoby, handed this advice to the inductees while performing induction ceremony of 85 new doctors who successfully completed their training at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University College of Medicine (COOUCOM).
He also called on the new medical doctors to handle every patient with care and seriousness.
He noted that medical practice is for those who are called to the profession and not for all comers, adding that if one was called and he observed the rules, the person would do well.
Nwakoby said that becoming medical doctor was not about making money but serving humanity and saving lives.
Said he: “I call on you to render this service selflessly as medical doctors. Your profession is such that you handle human lives. Medical doctor is based on divine call and if you are not called, you will be a medical carpenter”.
He also expressed confidence in the quality of medical doctors being produced by the institution, given the hi-tech equipment and the quality of staff in the institution.
Speaking at the occasion, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teching Hospital COOUTH, Hon. Joe Akabuike, said that despite the covid-19 pandemic and resident doctors’ strike, the institution produced quality and sound medical doctors.
He Observed that the institution was doing very, which was the reason most doctors were poached by foreign countries immediately after graduation.
He expressed gratitude for the number of medical doctors the institution produced and urged them to always display professionalism in their practice.
The provost of the college Prof. Emmanuel Ojiyi, on his part, said that he could vouch for the quality of medical doctors the institution was releasing to the public, adding that they were comparable to any doctors anywhere in the world.
He said that the institution did not only produce for Nigeria but for the world, noting that he was confident that they would excel wherever they found themselves.
Ojiyi however, admonished the new medical doctors to be patient in their practice, stating that whoever fronted money first in the practice might not achieve success.
According to him, the essence of medical practice was to save lives and not to get rich overnight.
