Faculty of Allied Health Sciences

Mission

The mission of the Faculty is to educate students in the Allied Health disciplines who are knowledgeable, humanistic and service oriented, and who would function within the scope of their practice disciplines; to produce post-professional allied health practitioners and scientists who would be researchers and educators, and clinicians capable of functioning in research institutes, universities and hospitals to achieve specific educational, research and clinical goals. The Faculty will draw upon the resources in the College and University to take on leadership roles in the training of Allied Health personnel that will provide the best and evidence-based care and quality services for the population in the North-East region of Nigeria.

Vision

To be the faculty that houses the sought-after allied health professional programmes among universities in Nigeria and West Africa.

Core values

Altruism, compassion, excellence, integrity, efficiency, team work and professionalism.

Graduates of the faculty will be able to:

• Apply knowledge and theoretical constructs from related social and behavioural sciences needed to plan and implement acceptable evidence-based intervention strategies for practice in the disciplines.
• Demonstrate the skills and competencies needed to define and address the problems of illness and to integrate these results with socio-cultural, economic and political concerns to reach decisions.
• Demonstrate competencies in the recognition of health indicators and evaluation of factors in the home and workplace that may cause diseases, dysfunctions, human suffering and premature deaths.
• Demonstrate the skills and competencies needed to distinguish the relative effectiveness of different procedural and public health interventions, utilising appropriate principles and methods.
• Demonstrate the skills and capacity to effectively plan, manage, implement and evaluate care and services, as well as advocacy related to behavioural, social, environmental and cultural factors that affect health and health-related behaviours.
• Apply instructional and research skills in the technical and scientific disciplines that have a direct or indirect impact on the prevention of diseases and the promotion of health and wellness.

Graduates of the disciplines in the faculty work with other healthcare professionals — physicians, pharmacists and health planners and administrators — in diverse health agencies and organisations, including local, state and federal health agencies as well as private and voluntary health organisations.

Presently five programmes are offered in the Faculty: Bachelor of Medical Radiography (B. RAD), Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (BMLS), Bachelor of Nursing Science (B. NSc), Doctor of Medical Rehabilitation (Physiotherapy) (DMR (PT)) and Master of Science in Physiotherapy.

The Faculty institutes a systematic process that monitors students’ achievement, faculty performance and curriculum effectiveness. The programme assessment plan involves both formative and summative measures. Formative measures cover matters of enrolment, retention and review of academic performance, course evaluations each semester, as well as peer and chairperson’s evaluation of faculty. Summative evaluation is conducted through exit interviews with graduates, a satisfaction survey and an alumni survey to track the number employed or admitted to postgraduate programmes.

The programme assessment involves the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data to create an ongoing system of data-driven curriculum change and programme improvement.