Courses with Gaps

Macro and micro economic factors that influence health, illness and health care delivery system. Concept of health economics. Factors that affect demand and supply of health care services. Macroeconomic indices that influence the economy and health. The costing of health and nursing services. Availability and distribution. Cost recovery of services. Healthcare financing and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Role of nurses in the National Health Insurance Scheme.

Introduction to sociology, psychology and anthropology. Biological basis for human behaviour– sensation, perception. Motivation and emotion. Describe human development, learning and practices. Role of culture, communication and human relationship and public participation. Importance of indigenous knowledge, belief and health practices. Social, psychological and biological aspect of environmental planning and built-up environment, substance use and abuse. Inequalities in health, psychological disorders, stresses, illness behaviours in relation to social medicine and medical psychology. Role of human behaviours in illness and disease causation. Social determinants of health, social epidemiology and health service utilisation behaviours. Application of social science theories towards understanding behavioural aspects of health and medical care. Considerations of human behavioural dimensions in illness and disease, prophylactic behaviour, the role of culture, role of social institutions, stress and health, compliance behaviours, social epidemiology and many others. Also covers topics in social health including smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity and nutritional behaviour/disorders, health services utilisation behaviour, emotional health and personality disorders, religion and health.

This course reviews social determinants of health. How education status, social status and economic status affects health. Sociological perspective of health. The functionalist approach, the conflict approach, and the interactionist approach. The social issues in health with reference to the services offered such as social welfare services, care of the motherless babies, care, and rehabilitation of the handicapped, care of the elderly and the care of destitute/beggars are discussed. Inequality and social class in relation to health. Ethnicity. gender and health. Health equity and social stigmatisation are taught.

Historical development of microbiology and the effects on health. Morphology of bacteria and fungi. Nutritional needs of microorganisms. Cultivation and isolation methods for microorganisms. Diagnostic techniques in relation to culture determination. Bacteria growth in culture and respective phases including death. Formation of colonies. Metabolism in microbial systems. Genetics (introductory). Introductory parasitology.

A study of the theoretical aspects of the sewing machine and its practical use. The course will cover the study of machine parts and their individual functions. It is aimed at helping students in using the major equipment accurately.

Review of matrix algebra. Theory and propagation of errors. Principles and methods of survey network adjustment. Non-least squares adjustment methods like Bowditch, transit, equal shift and unaltered bearing adjustment methods. Braced quadrilateral and centered polygon adjustment. Linear and nonlinear models, Linearization. Methods of solving systems of linear equations: Direct (ad joint, crammer, elimination/substitution, bordering, Cholesky) methods and indirect or iterative (Jacobi, Gauss-Siedel, SOR) methods. Introduction to least squares adjustment.

Plant and animal cells; Carbohydrate; fat and protein metabolism; Concepts of DNA; RNA and proteins; Plant and animal DNA; RNA; DNA and RNA synthesis; Protein Synthesis; Genes; gene transcription and translation; Subcellular protein targeting; Protein stability and turnover; Cell death; Plant and animal hormones and Vitamins intracellular and intercellular communication; Regulation of tissue growth

Current trends; innovations and toxicology in clinical pharmacology that are relevant to postgraduate studies; Principle of pharmacy; compounding and prescription writing; Drug interactions and incompatibility; therapeutic strategies and choice of drugs; Monitoring of therapeutic responses; Drug legislation in Nigeria

Review of data structures; linear data structures; hashing; trees; graphs; recursion; Complexity classes; empirical measurements of performance; time and space tradeoffs analysis; Algorithmic strategies: Brute-force algorithms; greedy algorithms; divide-and-conquer; backtracking; branch-and-bound; minimum spanning tree; heuristics; pattern matching and string/text algorithms; numerical approximation algorithms; Tractable and intractable problems

Advanced computer architecture including discussion of instruction set design (RISC and CISC); virtual memory system design; memory hierarchies; cache memories; pipelining; vector processing; I/O subsystems; co-processors; and multiprocessor architectures; Case studies of current systems