ABSTRACT
Improving the quality of education in Nigerian universities has been a subject of national interest for decades. There are numerous peculiar challenges and barriers to delivering high-quality health care education in the country. These hurdles underscore the need to find innovative solutions that address the unique circumstances of the Nigerian academy. This chapter provides the recipe for high-quality health care education and discussed the previous attempts at revising the medical and dental curricula at the national level. It also presented the formative and summative evaluations of the HCE system conducted between 2015 and 2019 that includes a written survey and unstructured interviews. The findings from the system assessment form the basis for the recommendations proffered in this chapter. The proposals include the adoption of interprofessional education model and integration of entrepreneurship education in the curriculum, workforce capacity building, upgrade of the National Universities Commission and the professional regulatory boards’ accreditation process to include a self-study report. Other recommendations proposed centered on funding, infrastructure, plagiarism, sexual harassment, gender inequity, corruption, university autonomy, and campus security.
