PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

YOUR JOURNEY

 

6 YEARS OF MEDICAL SCHOOL AND…

The schedule of academic activities in this medical school is divided into three major programs:

• PREMEDICAL PROGRAM
• PRECLINICAL PROGRAM
• CLINICAL PROGRAM

PREMEDICAL PROGRAM: This is the first year in the university during which advanced level courses in chemistry, Physics, Zoology, Botany, Sociology and Economics are taken in the faculties of Sciences and Social sciences.
This is divided into two semesters (Harmattan and Rain) of 14 weeks each. All courses takes must be passed as a prerequisite to move to the next program. Any failed course will be retaken because there is no space for carry – over into the college. You don’t have to worry about that. You’ll pass, if you can be pliable and ready to obey simple instruction.

PRECLINICAL PROGRAM: This lasts a period of two years. (Part 2 and 3). Courses taken are Basic medical sciences and Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology and Pharmacology. Facilities for this program are available on the campus.

CLINICAL PROGRAM: The remaining three years are spent here. Basic medical and clinical courses are taken. Facilities for this program are partly on campus and partly at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife and its annex – Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, Osun.
The pre-med program is divided into semesters but the other two programs are sessional without any mid – break. After successful completion of these six years, you’d be awarded a temporary medical license and as such can be called Doctor. This is preceded by an INDUCTION CEREMONY into the NMA (Nigeria Medical Association).

HOUSEMANSHIP: This is a compulsory one – year period of supervised practice of medicine in an accredited centre, usually a teaching hospital.
The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) service follows the housemanship. After this service, you get a permanent license to practice as a medical doctor.
PRE-MEDICAL PROGRAM
This is divided into two semesters Harmattan (first) and Rain (second) each lasting a period of 14weeks.
Academic activities here include
• Registration.
• Matriculation
• Lectures and Practical
• Continuous Assessment tests.
• Semester Examinations

 

REGISTRATION

 

Before these registrations commence in full, medical students are required to go the Faculty of Clinical Sciences for a brief Post-JAMB Test/Interview. A successful outcome here qualifies you to register.
While registering, you’d be required to pay certain amount of money as Annual dues, Orientation Package and Integration Trip & Tour.

These encompass the following:

• Faculty and General Admissions Registration.
• Accommodation Registration
• Health Centre Registrations.
• Course Registrations
• Library Registrations

Faculty and general admissions registration:
-Relevant Documents (Original and Photocopies) / materials Authentic ‘O’ Level Statement of Result: GCE, WASCCE OR NECO; Certificate of Birth, UME Result Slip, 5 school files and tags, Tuition and accommodation payment tellers (or receipts), 40 passport – sized photographs (preferably black and white, with names, faculty and registration number written the back).
- Procedures:
1. Bursar Clearance at the Bursar’s office; Presentation of the payment tellers (original and photocopies with names, faculty and signature written at the back).
2. Faculty clearance at the faculty office: Presentation and submission of O Level result, UME result slip and the Certificate of Birth; Collection, filling and returning of verification forms.
3. general Admission Clearance at the Division of Students’ Affair: presentation of documents (photocopies and originals); Collection, filling and returning of IFE FORMS ADM.

ACCOMMODATION REGISTRATION:
This takes place mainly in the Angola Hall (for the male) and Mozambique Hall (for the female).

- Relevant Documents: Accommodation payment teller (photocopy).
- Procedures:

• Warden’s clearance at warden’s office in the respective hall
• Presentation of the teller
• filling of presented forms and collection of the student residency room number paper, duly stamped and signed.

HEALTH CENTRE REGISTRATION:
This is done at the university Health Centre beside the Obafemi Awolowo Hall.
The health centre plays and important role in your Health and health related matters while you are still a student for Obafemi Awolowo University. It is therefore of utmost necessity that you understand its rule and regulations so that you do not run foul of them.

i. it is compulsory that you register at the Health Centre by the time of your admission into this University.
ii. During the process you will be asked to fill certain health forms which will be given to you by the admissions office.
iii. After a successful medical examination, you will be issued a medical certificate which will be required for your registration of courses.
iv. Your registration at the Health Centre will entitle you of free treatment there whenever you are ill and so long as you are a bonafide student of Obafemi Awolowo University.
v. Please not very well that if you do not register at the Health Centre and you maneuver to register for your courses you will not be entitled to free treatment at the Health Centre.
vi. Any health related matter between you and your Department cannot also be authenticated at the Health Centre.
vii. If you travel home during the course of the session and you fall sick you must report this immediately to the Health Centre.
viii. If you fall sick at home during official holidays and your illness extends beyond the holidays you must send somebody to notify the Health Centre about it and bring a full medical report when returning to the university. The Health Institutions except if is a case of an accident.
ix. If you fall sick while writing examination paper, you should seek to be brought to the Health Centre by your invigilator who must have completed in triplicate a disability form normally supplied to all examination centres by the Examination Office of the University.

Relevant Documents/material: IFE FORMS ADM & D, Basic student biodata form, Tuition fee payment teller (photocopy), Chest X – ray from only Govt. hospitals.
- Procedures:
1. Initial first ‘office’ clearance – Presentation of the teller and collection of registration: slip.
2. blood and Urine tests in the Health Centre Laboratory
3. Second ‘office’ registration: collection, filling and returning of the documents and submission of the chest X-ray.
4. talk with the doctor. You would be questioned about the state of your health. Then, the doctor will issue you the Health Centre Certificate of Registration.
5. Final First office clearance: stamping of the certificate and collection of the Health Centre Card.

COURSE REGISTRATION
Relevant Documents: health centre card/ ‘yellow form’, Payment of Departmental dues.
procedures:
1. collection of the course registration form (CRF) at the faculty office and the course registration card.
2. completion and duplication, stamping and signing of the CRF by the bursar at his office (take yellow form along).
3. completion of the course cards, filling them appropriately with the main courses and special electives with the course titles and the units.
4. registration at the Departments: payment of Dept. dues and collection of receipts at the Dept. Registration centre.

Special electives (1st) SEE, SEO, SEL, SET, SEG or SEA 001
Main courses; CHM, PHY, BOT, ZOO with SSC101
CHM and PHY in the White House
CHM 101 and 103 at Department: present Department, Receipt / Yellow card/Health Centre; purchase of CHM tutorial, practical record & manual booklets.
PHY 105 & 107 at Dept. Present Dept. receipt/ Yellow card/ H/C card; purchase of Practical Manual & Science notebook at the Part 1 Laboratory, white House.
BOT and ZOO at the BOOC
Present receipt and other required tools; purchase practical manuals.
SSC 101 at Department of Sociology
Make payment for the SSC 101 handout which contains the course outline and content.
Submission of completely filled, duly stamped CRF would be returned to the Faculty office + school files + tags + yellow copy (original) + H/C Certificate of Registration form (photocopy).

LIBRARY REGISTRATION:
This takes place at the large Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library opposite the popular motion ground.
Relevant document: yellow form
Procedure:
1. Stamping of the form
2. collection and filling of library cards.
3. return for stamping and eventual collection.

NB: These registration steps are subject to changes depending on the new developments at the registration centres.

 

MATRICULATION

 

All fresh students are formally admitted to the university at matriculation. It is during this ceremony that students formally become members of the university and register for course and examinations of the university. It is an annual event dating back to centuries of University life and practice.

The occasion is basically for recitation of the matric oath (contained in a form obtained at the faculty office) and celebration of admission with family members and well- wishers. By this, entrance is established but formal ceremonial exit is made during convocation.

The matriculation oath reads thus:
“on admission to membership of Obafemi Awolowo University, I solemnly and sincerely promise and declare that I will pay due respect and obedience to the Vice-Chancellor and other officers of the University and that I will faithfully observe all regulations which may, form time to time be issued by them for the good order and governance of the university including an order that students Union should make restitution for damage done by the students to public property. In addition, I faithfully promise to refrain from any acts of violence and other actions calculated to disrupt the work of the University or likely to bring the University into disrepute”.

The matriculation filled meticulously filled and submitted same day. The submitted form is Matriculation Number.

 

COURSE SYSTEM ON OAU

 

INTRODUCTION
The course unit system is a system whereby programmes are designed with courses which are weighted and classified into various levels for students in the institution of higher learning. Courses are assigned units depending on the volume of work required to complete the course and this includes lectures, tutorials, Practicals.
There are minimum and maximum numbers of units a student can register for in a semester. Apart from the end of semester examination, there are CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT )OR MID-SEMESTER) TESTS during each semester. These tests and the END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION make up the set of semester examinations for each course. Appropriation of scores to make the final mark of 100% varies form one faculty to another, but continuous assessment scores cannot be core than 40% of the 100%.
Be aware that this system is only used for Part 1, the other classes in medicine have a different system which would be made known to you in due time.

DEFINITION OF TERMS
It is necessary to be familiar with certain terminologies and abbreviations that are commonly used in the computation of Grade Point Average. These are defined as follows.
1. Student Workload: This is defined in terms of course units. One unit represents one hour of lecture or one hour of Tutorial or 2-4 hours of practical work per week throughout a semester. Thus for example, a course in which there are 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of Tutorial per week is a 3 – units course.
2. Total Load Units (TLU): This is the total number of course units earned by a student in a particular semester. It is the summation of the Load Units on all Courses done during the semester.
3. Level of Performance Rating: This is the rating of grades obtained in terms of credit points per load unit. The rating is as follows:

Level of Pr\performance Rating (credit points per unit)
A (70 – 100%) 5
B (60 - 69%) 4
C (50 – 59%) 3
D (45 – 49%) 2
E (40 – 44%) 1
F (0 – 39%) 0

Based on the above, a student who obtained a grade of ‘A’ in a 4 – unit course has scored 20 Credit Points; and one who obtained a grade ‘C’ has scored 12 credit points.

4. Total Credit Point (TCP): This is the sum of the production of the course units and rating in each course, for the entire semester period. For example, consider a student who took 4 course 5 units each. Let’s say the grade obtained in the four courses were C,B,F,D respectively. The TCP of this student is obtained as 5x3 + 5x4 + 5x0 + 5x2 = 45.
5. Grade Point Average (GPA): This is the total credit points (TCP) divided by the total units (TLU). For example, consider the student’s scores referred to in section 2.5. His TCP is 45, and of course, his TLU is 20 (ie 4 courses at 5 units each, for the semester). The highest GPA that can be earned is 5.0, and that is when a student has earned a grade of ‘A’ in every course during the semester. The lowest GPA obtainable is 0.0 and this would happen if the student has ‘F’ all round during the semester.
6. Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): this is not the summation of GPAs for all semesters. Rather, it is the summation of TCPs for all semesters, divided by the summation of TLUs for the said semesters. Like the GPA, CGPA obtainable ranges from 0 to 5.

 

CALCULATION OF GPA & CGPA

An example is give below:
COURSE CODE COURSE UNIT GRADE CREDIT POINT
CHM 101 4 78%A 5 x 4 = 20
CHM 031 1 68%B 4 x 1 = 4
PHY 105 4 75%A 5 x 4 = 20
PHY 107 1 62%B 4 x 1 = 4
BOT 101 3 54%C 3 x 3 = 9
BOT 103 1 55%C 3 x 1 = 3
ZOO 101 3 89%A 5 x 3 = 15
ZOO 103 1 45%D 2 x 1 = 2
SSC 101 3 77%A 5 x 3 = 15
TLU = 21
GPA = TCP/TLU = 92/21 = 4.38

SECOND SEMESTER
Course code Course unit Grade Credit point
CHM 102 4 75%A 5 x 4 = 20
CHM 104 1 62%B 4 x 1 = 4
PHY 106 4 82%A 5 x 4 = 20
PHY 108 1 66%B 4 x 1 = 4
BOT 102 3 42%E 1 x 3 = 3
BOT 104 1 32%F 0 x 1 = 0
SSC 102 3 54%C 3 x 3 = 9
TLU = 17 TCP = 60
GPA = TCP/TLU = 60/17 = 3.53
CGPA for the two semesters = = 4.38 + 3.532 = 3.95

List of Textbooks

CHEMISTRY
Introductory physical chemistry series A
Olajire etal
Introduction Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Olajire etal
Basic Concepts in Chemical Reactions Volume 1
Craig Obafemi
PHYSICS
First Year University Physical Volume 1&2
O.Ajaja
College Physics
SCHAUM’S series
University Physics
Freeman and Young
BOTANY
Botany for Degree Students
Variety of Forms I the Plant Kingdom
O. Olorode and H.C. Illoh
ZOOLOGY
Tropical Zoology
Ademola O. Segun
SOCIOLOGY
Ssc 101: man and his environment
ECONOMICS
Any good economics textbooks
NB: The note copied in class is as good as these textbooks. Your note is the fundamental and is more essential than textbook except in physics where you need to work a lot of examples. The note is alpha, textbook is the omega.

PART 1 HARMATTAN

COURSE CODE	COURSE DESCRIPTION	L	P	T	U
CHM 101	Introductory Chemistry	3	1	3	4
CHM I03	Experimental Chemistry	0	0	3	1
ZOO 101	Introductory Zoology	3	0	0	3
ZOO 103	Experimental Zoology	0	0	1	1
PHY 105	Physics for Biological Sciences	3	1	3	4
PHY 107	Experimental Physics IA	0	0	3	1
BOT 101	Introductory Botany	3	0	0	3
BOT 103	Experimental Botany I	0	0	3	1
SSC 101	Man in his Social Environment	2	1	0	3
	Special electives				2
	TOTAL				23

 

* OTHERS WILL BE UPLOADED SOON

 

 

 

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