{"id":742538,"date":"2019-11-11T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/11\/female-medical-student-excels-at-uds\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:10:59","slug":"female-medical-student-excels-at-uds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/11\/female-medical-student-excels-at-uds\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Medical Student Excels At UDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr. Jimanatu Gomda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jimanatu Gomda, a medical student of the University for Development<br \/>\nStudies (UDS), has picked five prestigious awards at the university\u2019s 20th<br \/>\nCongregation 2019, held in Tamale.<\/p>\n<p>The awards include the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s prize for the best student in<br \/>\nMBChb, the Registar\u2019s prize for the best student in MBChb, the Dean\u2019s prize for<br \/>\nthe best overall graduating medical student, Dr. Sory\u2019s prize\u00a0for the<br \/>\nall-round graduating medical student and Ghana Medical Association\u2019s prize for<br \/>\nthe best overall graduating medical student.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong>, Ms. Gomda, expressed joy for winning the five<br \/>\nawards as a medical student in the University for Development Studies (UDS)<br \/>\nmedical school.<\/p>\n<p>She thanked her family (the Gomda family) for their love and support<br \/>\nthroughout her studies.<\/p>\n<p>She advised students, most especially females, to work hard towards their<br \/>\neducation because as she put it \u201cthat will pay out someday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UDS graduated a total number of 4,735 graduands (4,549 undergraduates<br \/>\nand 186 postgraduates) with 10 PhDs in various disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total number of 186 postgraduates, 144 were males and 42 were<br \/>\nfemales and from the total of the 4,549 undergraduates, 92 obtained first<br \/>\nclass, 1999 obtained second class upper, 1,210 second class lower and 78 had<br \/>\nthird class.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the graduands, 1,170 were Diploma, Doctor of Medical<br \/>\nLaboratory Sciences and Medical Doctors (MBChB) (116).<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development (UDS), Prof<br \/>\nGabriel Ayum Teye, addressing participants at the graduation ceremony in<br \/>\nTamale, said the university had been approved to run MSc Community Disaster and<br \/>\nResilience Studies and BEd Family and Consumer Science by the National<br \/>\nAccreditation Board (NAB).<\/p>\n<p>He appealed for the quick completion of ongoing infrastructural<br \/>\nprojects to put the university in a better and a smooth take-off of the Wa and<br \/>\nNavrongo campuses as autonomous universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to make a passionate request for additional lecture space on<br \/>\nall the four campuses, in anticipation of an increase in students\u2019 enrollment<br \/>\nfrom the first batch of students from the Free SHS system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vice chancellor told the graduands that the university had<br \/>\nempowered them with the potent weapons to overcome some challenging situation<br \/>\nin life.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the infamous \u2018Sex for Grades\u2019 scandals, the vice<br \/>\nchancellor encouraged victims of sexual harassment, staff or students to report<br \/>\nthe perpetrators of such heinous crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermit me to state that the academic excellence of female students in UDS has never been in doubt. The isolated cases of media reports on sex for grades should never be used as a yardstick to diminish the value of degrees awarded particularly to female students at the university.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jimanatu Gomda Jimanatu Gomda, a medical student of the University for Development Studies (UDS), has picked five prestigious awards at the university\u2019s 20th Congregation 2019, held in Tamale. 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