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C A Pearson

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PubMed1986

Choice of general practice for postgraduate training among medical graduates and undergraduates in Nigeria.

A questionnaire survey of career choices was carried out among 112 medical graduates, after one year's internship (group I), during their National Youth Corps programme in Kaduna, Lagos, Cross River and Oyo states of Nigeria, and 365 final-year medical undergraduates (group 2) in the colleges of medicine in the corresponding states. A total of 13% in group I and 40% in group 2 were undecided as regards their first choice. Obstetrics and gynaecology was the most popular first choice in both groups. General practice ranked fifth among group I, but displaced surgery to rank second among group 2. The differences were statistically significant. A total of 41% of group I and 46% of group 2 preferred to work in a teaching hospital, reflecting the high preference for surgical specialties. Twenty-six per cent and 33.7% of respondents in groups 1 and 2 respectively wished to own their own practice or work in the private sector. General practice is a new specialty and its growth is supported by a national postgraduate training programme. A shift towards general practice is seen compared with previous studies of career preference among Nigerian medical graduates and students. This may be due to a changing balance of supply and demand in the medical work-force, or a better assessment of the nation's health problems and manpower needs.

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PubMed1978

Hypochromia as a clinical sign of tuberculosis in the tropics.

The skin colour of 106 Nigerian tuberculosis patients was measured by colorimetry; and a relative hypochromia, particularly of the face, was found to be associated with tuberculous infection. The hypochromia reached a significant degree compared to a group of 126 control patients with other medical conditions from whom tuberculosis had been excluded. Successful treatment of the tuberculosis resulted in re-pigmentation. It is suggested that relative hypochromia should be included in the list of non-specific signs which may be looked for when considering tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis of chronic cough, and debilitating disease, in the African. The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted. A simple method of measuring skin colour in the consulting room needs to be developed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Thiacetazone toxicity in the treatment of tuberculosis patients in Nigeria.

In a series of 1,212 tuberculosis patients treated on a regime of streptomycin/isoniazid/thiacetazone (S/INH/thiacetazone) over a period of 10 years in Nigeria there were 171 cases considered to have toxic reactions to thiacetazone (14%). 134 of these (11%) were sufficient to require a change of treatment. Giddiness and rashes were the commonest effects, the former occurring mainly in association with streptomycin, and considered to be largely due to potentiation of streptomycin toxicity by thiacetazone. The advantages of the S/INH/thiacetazone regime in Nigeria are considered to outweigh the disadvantages, so long as necessary precautions are taken to keep the effects of toxicity to a minimum.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Early protected weight bearing in African patients with fractures of the femur.

Among 100 cases of closed fracture of the femur admitted to a Nigerian hospital during the years 1954--71, and treated by skin or skeletal traction, the mean time to clinical union was 6 weeks and to discharge on protected weight bearing 7 weeks. There were no cases on non-union. It is suggested that the traditional recommendation of 12-14 weeks in traction to ensure clinical union of a fracture of the femur should be revised, at least in African patients.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Letter: Rabies.

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