Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 03:23 pm
Lotachi Ugwunwa Onyemenam has emerged the best graduating student of University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana receiving a record 15 out of 21 awards.
Some of the awards received by Lotachi Ugwunwa Onyemenam are the vice-chancellor of UCC prize for the overall best performance, Ghana Medical Association best student, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital prize for the best student among others.
The other awards went to Akorfa Ama Wotordzor who received five awards with the remainder going to Amanda Naa Atwei Bruce-Adjei.
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) graduated 56 qualified medical doctors at the first session of the 51st congregation dedicated to the school of medical sciences. The fresh graduates made up of 35 males and 21 females were conferred with a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MB, ChB) degrees after successfully completing their six-year programme.
Speaking at the graduation, the vice-chancellor of the school, Professor Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, stated that the total number of medical doctors produced by UCCSMS is now 299 since its inception in 2007. Ampiah revealed that the Modular System of delivering the curriculum is one of the keys and unique features of their medical school. According to him, the adoption of the Community-Based Experience and Service (COBES) mode in the curriculum provides the students with their necessary exposure that helps them to sharpen their research skills.
This mode, he added also builds in them the virtue of empathy as they offer services to rural communities within their service catchment area. Ghartey Ampiah said his outfit continues to gain more recognition and visibility as it continues to make strides to collaborate with top notch universities around the world in the areas of medical education and research, and its faculty carries out extension services with Ghanaian and International Institutions.
Ampiah urged the new doctors to go out and touch lives as well as to put smiles on the faces of patients and make an impact on society. Ampiah again appealed to the inducted doctors not only to treat their patients but also spend the time to explain the cause of their sickness to them and how they can prevent the various ailments.
