"A doctor who listens to patients hardly makes mistakes - I say LISTEN! "
- Dr. Ukot
Dr. Inyang Ukot is a physician with many years of experience. He has gathered this great wealth from exposure to a wide variety of settings of medical practice. He has worked in government hospitals and core private hospitals. He started his life as a doctor in a mission hospital and has worked for four missions viz.: Baptist, Presbyterian, NKST, and Catholic. His training and work have taken him to various parts of Nigeria viz.: West, East, North, and South.
With regards to layers of medical practice, he has worked in health posts, primary and comprehensive health centers, secondary (general) hospitals, and tertiary (teaching) hospitals. He has spent some time working in private hospitals, a first-generation bank, and in a multinational company – all in Nigeria.
His training took place in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. In Nigeria he acquired the twin medical degree M.B.; B.S. from College of Medicine of the University of Lagos in 1981, the first fellowship FMCGP in Family Medicine from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1991, and the second fellowship FWACP in the same specialty from the West African College of Physicians in 1995. It was in 2005 that he obtained the post-graduate diploma DOccMed. in Occupational Medicine from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
