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Highest Paid Medical Specialty in Nigeria (2021)

Enudi Golden by Enudi Golden
January 11, 2024
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Highest Paid Medical Specialty in Nigeria

Neurosurgeons are the Highest Paid Medical Specialty in Nigeria because they are scarce and the demand for their services is way above their supply.

Neurosurgery

With Neurosurgery being the foremost time demanding medical specialty, it’s equally the foremost lucrative of all the medical areas in Nigeria. It is the medical specialty that’s concerned about the prevention, diagnosis, surgery , and rehabilitation of disorder which affect any portion of the nervous system which includes the mind, spinal rope, fringe nerves and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system. Medical specialists prepared during this field of Neurosurgery are called Neurosurgeon.

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Neurosurgeons are the foremost generously compensated in Nigeria since they’re scant and therefore the interest for their services is route over their inventory. In Nigeria, a couple are eager to go through more than 15 years over the span of turning into a neurosurgeon. Also, the way that essentially all of Nigerian hospitals come up short on the basic hardware for preparing or usage of the skills of Neurosurgery, further adds to the decrease of these medical personels in the country. On the entire , these factors discloses why as per measurements, there are under 100 neurosurgeons in Nigeria. That aside, let’s check out how much these medical personels earn within the country.

How Lucrative is Neurosurgery Medical Specialty?

The average and estimate salary for a Neurosurgeon in Nigeria is ₦3,600,000. Neurosurgery is sort of possibly the foremost demanding medical specialty and neurosurgeons procure absolutely the most vital salary within the medical field. The median pay for neurosurgeons is estimated at ₦2,000,000 monthly, which contrasts well to other medical specialties.

Also, the ₦1,000,000 which is that the estimate lowest salary for these medical specialists. Expressing a salary as a median or middle implies that portion of the neurosurgeons acquire quite that sum. This all shows how lucrative the profession really is.

Neurosurgery Job Description

Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system.

Educational Requirements To Be A Neurosurgeon

Generally, the education and training to turn into a neurosurgeon is thorough, broad and incorporates the finishing of:

  • Four years of pre-medical education at a university or college
  • Four years of medical school bringing about a M.D. or then again D.O. degree
  • One year internship program in general surgery.
  • Five to seven years in a neurosurgery residency program
  • Some neurosurgeons complete a fellowship after residency to enable them major in a particular area
  • It’s followed by continuing education — annual meetings, conferences, scientific journals, research — to keep them up with advances made in the complex field of neurosurgery

Looking at the rundown of the 15 years educational training to become a Neurosurgeons, following four years of medical school and an overall medical internship program, a hopeful neurosurgeon will enter a neurosurgical residency program with a normal length of seven years.

Conclusion !

Neurosurgeons are the Highest Paid Medical Specialty in Nigeria because they are scarce and the demand for their services is way above their supply.

Especially In Nigeria, only a few are willing to spend over 15 years in the course of becoming a neurosurgeon, and the fact that nearly all Nigeria  hospitals lack the necessary equipment for training or utilization of the skills in Neurosurgery, further contributes to the decline and this explains why according to statistics, there are less than 100 neurosurgeons in Nigeria.

Yet the services of a neurosurgeon is needed everyday, that is why the demand for their services is way above their supply.

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