title: Problems of postgraduate medical training in Nigeria.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Postgraduate medical training in Nigeria has been in dire straits for about two decades now. That it has continued to survive, is a tribute to the average resident doctor who has become immunized, and who has grown a thick skin of armour, as well the spirit of altruism of the medical teachers--consultants (young and old), who despite odds, have kept their focus clear, above the murky waters of national distraction and daunting socio economic challenges.
  
  
  METHODS
  A review of relevant literature on medical education in Nigeria was undertaken by manual library search.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This paper x-rays the strong points that have still prevailed to hold the rudiments and ideals of postgraduate medical training in a viable position up to date. It discusses the weaknesses and threats--potential and real--to the training programme.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper attempts to search, and actually hopes, for silver lining in the Nigerian sky as possible solution lifelines that may yet re-engineer the programme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Ike
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009549:Nigeria; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013663:Teaching