EDUCATION
Jacques Fame Ndongo brings ‘’bad’’ news to Medical Students
of FMBS
It was during the solemn graduation ceremony of the 2018
batches of the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Amphitheatre 700
on the campus of the University of Yaounde I, Ngoa Ekelle. While chairing the ceremony, the Minister of
Higher Education, Chancellor of Academic Orders in the company of the
representative of the Minister of Public Health, and the Rector of the
University of Yaoundé I, Professor Maurice Aurélien Sosso, announced that from
2020 medical students from the said Faculty and others in the Country after
their graduation will no longer gain direct insertion into the public service
but will have to sit an examination organized by the Ministry of Public Service
and Administrative Reforms intended to be written by all Cameroonians in the
field no matter where they are trained. This according to Minister Fame Ndongo
is in accordance with the reforms made in 2013. However, Fame Ndongo used the occasion
to tell the Laureates that moves are underway and in no distant time next year,
2019, Cameroonian medical students will be accepted to integrate in Countries
like the US without any further processes to be fulfilled. He said the ministry
and partners are working on accreditation process and are at finishing point.
During the occasion, the Rector of the University of Yaounde I, Professor
Maurice Aurélien Sosso enjoined the Laureates to treat patients as kings no
matter their social status and keying to the Rector, the Dean of FMBS, Professor
Jacqueline ZE MINKANDE asked them to treat an individual and not an illness. She
asked them to serve as ambassadors of FMBS and to promote living together wherever
they are sent to work.
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| laureates |
More than 400 Laureates received the diplomas from the 43th
Batch of Doctors of General Medicine, 5th Batch of Doctors of Dental
Medicine, 5th Batch of Doctors of Pharmacy, 27th Batch of
Specialist Doctors, 10th Batch of Masters in Biomedical Sciences and
Health Technology, and 5th Batch of PhD. They all took the
Hippocratic Oath before the Council of the National Order of Medical Practitioners
and promised to be of service wherever duty calls within the national territory
and to uphold the practices of the noble profession to safe lives.
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| Doctor Zephaniah |
One
of the graduants is Zephaniah Nkentie who read General Medicine and now backs
home a Doctor in Medicine. He says, “Long
awaited event finally came and was full of God's glory. Thank you Lord! I am set and ready… No matter what it takes,
the goal is to safe a life.” This is seen in the strides he has already made to
go back home and safe lives in his war stricken community after defending his
thesis last June 13th but we leave the story for another day.
By Awoh Caleb Ndazua in Yaoundé, Cameroon
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