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.
Dr. Inyang Ukot’s vast professional experience and academic background make him eminently qualified to conceive and bring into existence books that meet the needs of medical students and a wide range of practicing physicians. He has not only been treating patients but has also been working with every class of core healthcare practitioners and administrators. Over the years he has been involved in training medical students and doctors at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in his area of specialization, Family Medicine.
He understands the life of busy practicing physicians and is able to craft medical books that target their needs for he has been where they are in the past forty odd years. His interest in teaching medical students started from when he was a demonstrator in gross human anatomy as a fourth and fifth year medical student; this interest has not waned and since he is familiar with how things are for a typical medical student he knows what to focus on in his medicine-based books to ensure a pleasant life for all medical students and post-graduate trainees.
Over the years he has written six books in medicine; the books are:
