Nasarawa State College Keffi (NSUK) has commenced the world’s first Medical Geology Submit Graduate programme on the Jose Centino Worldwide Centre for Medical Geology (JacMedGeo) Analysis within the establishment.
The establishment’s director of Linkages and Worldwide Cooperation, Dr Kitso Nghargbu, disclosed this yesterday in Keffi, Keffi native authorities space.
Dr Nghargbu mentioned medical geology is multidisciplinary and a brand new self-discipline, noting that no different tertiary establishment worldwide has provided it as a result of the examine space is new.
“It is extremely younger. The primary textbook in medical geology was printed solely in 2005. So, it’s an rising self-discipline, and NSUK, and, by extension, Nigeria and Africa, have trailed the blaze.
“We’ve change into the pacesetters in operating diploma packages on the Submit Graduate Diploma degree, Masters Degree and Doctorate degree so far as the world is worried.
“So, it goes past being the primary in Nigeria and interprets to being the primary on the earth,“ he added.
Based on him, Medical Geology is the examine of geological processes and supplies with processes referred to earthquakes, volcanoes, local weather change actions, flooding, tsunamis and all different types of disasters which are geologically induced and typically brought on by man.
“If you speak of supplies, you speak of minerals, rocks, mineral waters or medicinal waters which profit man. So, it‘s a examine of these geological processes that impression man and his setting,“ he mentioned.
He defined that the establishment has made obtainable a curriculum ready, assessed, and permitted by related schooling authorities, which is why the college‘s Senate permitted the graduation of the diploma programmes.
“So, the curriculum has been ready. It has additionally been peer-reviewed by the founding fathers of medical geology by the most effective consultants in medical geology analysis in the entire world.
“This centre that has simply been established -the Jose Centino Worldwide Centre for Medical Geology Analysis, NSUK is a challenge of the Worldwide Medical Geology Affiliation on the world degree supported by a number of students and researchers inside the well being and setting spheres,“ he famous.
He mentioned the postgraduate diploma within the self-discipline will take 18 months to finish, the Grasp‘s Diploma 24 months, and the doctorate programme a most of 48 months.
He emphasised that there was sufficient manpower to deal with the self-discipline within the establishment, which has about 32 college members who’re consultants in medical geology.
“Simply yesterday, the deputy minister of expertise of the Islamic Republic of Iran wrote to us that he desires to be a part-time lecturer on this centre.
“Manpower is ample. I wish to guarantee you that even earlier than we began promoting varieties yesterday, we had indications of curiosity from over ten international locations. So, will probably be a foremost worldwide analysis centre,“ he mentioned.
