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Symptoms and signs of common lesions in plastic and reconstructive surgery, including their interpretations. Introduction to principles of management of common lesions in plastic and reconstructive surgery (ulcers, burns and skin grafts.) including relevant investigations, treatment, and treatment complications. Cleft lip and palate. Common cutaneous lesions and cosmetic surgery.

Laws and ethics guiding the practice relates with other medical practices. Federal acts. National policy on traditional medicine, poisons and pharmacy act. Counterfeit and Fake drugs (Miscellaneous provisions Act.) Pharmacist Ethics, Codes of Conduct for Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioners, the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration (NAFDAC) Decree, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) decree. Indian Hemp decree, State Board Laws in Complementary and Alternative Medicine practice. Medical and Pharmacy laws and professional ethic. General comportment, malpractices and excesses of HMPs as well as any other mandatory legal requirements and restrictions on the following: claims faking quackery, sales, advertisement, control of manufacture, distribution, marketing labelling, registration, importation and exportation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine products, animal medicinal products and mineral medicinal products. Miscellaneous regulations and other directives of the proposed Traditional Medicine Council of Nigeria (TMCN) which may be formulated and promulgated from time to time. Discussions of ethical issues confronting professional responsibilities and their patient in the practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Rights of the practitioner, patients and the general public consumers.

Select concepts, processes, and issue related to the organisation contexts within which health information managers’ practice. Topics include information as public/ private good, intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, information liability, and freedom of information act, access to information, elementary labour laws, rules and regulations on organisational staff matter, and public health laws in Nigeria. Information policy, copyright, and ethical issues. Concepts of Ethics, law, values, morals, rules and regulations. Sources of Ethics, Law, and Morals and many others. Concepts of Privacy, Confidentiality and Security of Health Information. Principles and code of ethics for Health Information Management practitioners. The Nigerian Law System and Structure. Health Records requirements and entries. Procedures for reporting and release of Health Information. Concept of consent for procedures in Medicine.

Components of the environment, the interaction among components, types of ecosystems, ecosystem and habitats; population and environmental change. Population growth, distribution patterns, population trend and environment.

The concepts of Population and Environmental Change. Components of the environment, the interaction among components, types of ecosystem, ecosystem and habitats; population and environmental change. Population growth, distribution patterns, population trend and environment. Earth sustenance: Factors affecting the ability of the earth to sustain human population, Links between environmental impact of behaviour of the population and earth sustenance, earth’s area of bio-productive land as a finite resource and processes for its increase or destruction.

Forces in population dynamics; Estimation of population parameters; Models; Selected papers in population genetics

Post-harvest physiology of horticultural commodities. Tropical environment in relation to maturity, ripeness and senescence including climacteric. Physical and chemical indices and quality in fruit and vegetable crops. Control of post-harvest losses. Refrigeration and cooling systems. Handling and Storage of cereal grains and legumes. Measurement of temperature, relative humidity, moisture in stored foods. Buildings and other structures for food storage. Controlled environment for transit and long-term storage.

Introduction to powder metallurgy; applications of powder metallurgy techniques in industries; methods of production of metal powders, grinding and blending of powder; compaction by pressing, extrusion, rolling and explosive techniques; sintering, sizing and impregnating; sintered products; advantages and disadvantages of powder metallurgy techniques; safety engineering in powder metallurgy industries; future trends in powder metallurgy.

The basics of three-phase circuits, connections, voltage and current analysis and real and reactive power calculations; the fundamentals of electricity conversion from the form supplied by the source to the forms required by the load; power electronic conversion techniques, including the basic converters (DC-DC, AC-DC and DC-AC) and their power switching and control methods; the methods of circuit analysis applicable to switched mode circuits; essential properties of the relevant semiconductor devices; simple converters for practical applications. Characteristics of power devices; DC-DC converters; AC Current, Voltage and Power; AC-DC converters and Inverters (DC-AC converters).

The basics of three-phase circuits, connections, voltage and current analysis and real and reactive power calculations; the fundamentals of electricity conversion from the form supplied by the source to the forms required by the load; power electronic conversion techniques, including the basic converters (DC-DC, AC-DC and DC-AC) and their power switching and control methods; the methods of circuit analysis applicable to switched mode circuits; essential properties of the relevant semiconductor devices; simple converters for practical applications. Topics: Characteristics of power devices; DC-DC converters; AC Current, Voltage and Power; Effects of power electronics on AC power Rectifiers (AC-DC converters) and Inverters (DC-AC converters).