The Ondo South representative, Senator Dayo Faduyile will be the Guest Lecturer tomorrow, Thursday, October 8th, at the 9th memorial lecture of Late professor Felix Oladejo Dosekun at the college of medicine, University of Lagos.
The lecture is to to be held at the Old Great Hall, college of medicine, University of Lagos, Idi Araba, Lagos from 10am.
The topic that will be addressed to honour the first Vice Dean of the University of Lagos medical school and first Emeritus professor at Unilag is: QUALITY MEDICAL EDUCATION AS A PILLAR FOR ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE.
The assignment will afford Senator Faduyile a golden opportunity to connect medical education with the quality of doctors produced and the realities of healthcare delivery in Nigeria.
Faduyile, a professor of pathology and Forensic medicine will explore his background to make a central arguement that Nigeria can not achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) simply by building more hospitals and expanding healthcare insurance. The country must first produce well trained, ethically grounded, clinically competent health professionals capable of delivering quality healthcare.
Given his recent emphasis on AI training for young people, he may likely connect the role of modern technology to medical education in a way such it would augment the physician rather than replace professional judgements, ethics and compassion.
As the Guest Lecturer, Faduyile may explore three intersecting positions as a professor, a medical professional and a federal legislator to honour Late professor Dosekun’s legacy by laying emphasis on medical education, Nigeria’s present healthcare challenges and the country’s ambition for Universal Health Coverage.
At the event having the chairperson as the Vice chancellor University of Lagos, Professor Folasade T. Ogunsola and the chief Host as the Provost, College of medicine, University of Lagos, Professor Ademola Oremosu, Professor Faduyile may round up his lecture by asking a contemporary question: If the pioneers of Nigerian medical education, of which Late Professor Oladejo Dosekun is one of them, built the foundation, what must the present generation do to prevent that foundation from becoming inadequate for the demands of 21st century?
