Medicine & Research

Medicine & Research

Clinical medicine taught me to reason under uncertainty. Research taught me to turn uncertainty into questions that can be tested.

Clinical Practice

Medical Officer

Nigerian Air Force Medical Centre, Uyo · to

Provided primary, preventive and emergency care across a broad range of acute and chronic conditions: structured assessment, differential diagnosis, interpretation of investigations, evidence-based treatment and specialist referral, with longitudinal care for non-communicable diseases.

Medical Intern

University of Uyo Teaching Hospital · to

More than 6,000 hours of supervised clinical training across internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery, and obstetrics and gynaecology, including emergency and inpatient services and tutoring medical students.

Research

  • COVID-19 vaccine uptake among doctors (2023). Undergraduate cross-sectional study of uptake and barriers at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, analysed in IBM SPSS.
  • CKD progression and APOL1 nephropathy (2021). Research intern on a prospective cohort study of dietary sodium, potassium and oxalate in chronic kidney disease: 24-hour urine processing, dietary-recall interviews and follow-up of about 15 participants.
  • Smartphone use among university students (2019 to 2021). Cross-sectional study of 408 students with the Medical Research and Humanitarian Society, UNTH, plus organising research-methods and SPSS training for 700+ members.

Education

MBBS

University of Nigeria, Nsukka · to
  • Pre-clinical sciences: Human Anatomy, Physiology and Medical Biochemistry, the structural, functional and molecular foundations of clinical practice.
  • Para-clinical sciences: Pathology and Pharmacology, covering mechanisms of disease, laboratory diagnosis and rational drug therapy.
  • Clinical training: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatrics, through supervised clinical postings.
  • Community medicine & public health: epidemiology, biostatistics, international health, maternal and child health, occupational health and environmental health.

Where I am going

My long-term interests include epidemiology, public health, health data, and research that connects clinical questions with computational methods.