Essential Clinical Methods in Paediatrics

Dr Egbuna Olakunle Obidike graduated from Government College Umuahia, Nigeria in 1975, and the University of Nigeria Nsukka’s College of Medicine in 1981. He became a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1990. In 1992, he joined the Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, as a lecturer and became a professor of paediatrics in 2008. He has also been a consultant paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu (now Ituku-Ozalla) since 1992. Between 2003 and 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the University of The Gambia School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, and was a trainer and consultant at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, in 2021. He has been an external examiner at some medical schools in Nigeria, and is also an examiner of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.