Monrovia, Liberia – At the only state-run medical school, AM Dogliotti College of Medicine and Health Sciences, final-year female students have expressed their displeasure with the terrible atmosphere in which they are forced to learn.
The female medical students listed a number of significant obstacles to their education at the state-run medical school, including inadequate dormitory facilities, limited professors, a lack of study materials, transportation, food, and internet connectivity.
Victoria Nimely is a final-year AM medical student. One of the main issues facing the medical school, according to Dogliotti, is that it has very few resources and a small number of instructors who work part-time because they have to teach students at the hospital as well. She pointed out that this means that students cannot benefit from full-time instruction like they can in other nations.
She revealed that there is no library or reading material available to medical students to supplement their education, which she claimed is hindering their ability to learn.
Emma Johnson is another final year student at the state-run medical school. She asserted that one of her major challenges in medical school is having a child and the lack of medical resources to facilitate their studies.
She noted: “For me, one of the challenges I face while being in a medical school is having a child. Having a child and attending a medical school of study is a huge challenge. We don’t have books. If we want books, sometimes we have to find a way to download the soft copies to be able to read because we don’t hard copy books,” she asserted.

The female medical students were explaining their challenges over the weekend when they received a donation of some spetical, from the Finance Officer at the European Union Delegation to Sierra Leon, who formerly worked in Liberia for four years and five months, as his way of giving back to female medical students in Liberia to enhance their work.
In responding to the numerous challenges outlined by the female medical students, AM Doglitti Clinical Coordinator Madam Gbanblon acknowledged the multiple challenges faced by the medical school.
She, however, sent a passionate plea to the EU Ambassador to look in the direction of the medical school with whatever support they can provide to the medical school.
She disclosed that there are lots of challenges that the medical students go through ranging from inadequate medical instructors, lack of specialists or consultants in the country to train the young generation of medical students.
She continued: “As a faculty member of the medical school, I’ll say there are lots of challenges that our students go through, ranging from us not having enough faculty members to the fact that we don’t have many specialists or consultants in the country to train the young generation, looking outside the fact that we don’t have what it takes to accommodate our students, talking about bus transportation, talking about dormitories, talking about hospitals that will accommodate most of the students,” she noted.
The lack of seating capacity to accommodate many students in the medical school based on the increased number of medical students is a serious challenge, said AM Dogliotti, Clinical Coordinator.
In brief remarks, the Finance Officer at the EU Delegation to Sierra Leon, Kiril Nikolov said his family was moved to donate spherical to final year female medical students based on their motivation and sacrifices they make to safe human lives.
The EU Delegate said these female medical students are the new hopes of Liberia because they are different, smart, and devoted to their professions of saving lives, noting stressing that he drove almost 600km from Sierra Leon to be in Liberia with a new hope of Liberia.
Nikolov emphasized that it is a great honor for him and his family to donate to female medical students of Liberia because majority of his family members are medical practitioners who spent their entire lives saving human lives.
The donation is in honor of his 93-year-old aunt, who spent half of his life as a medical doctor saving human lives, noting that his first profession was as a lifeguard assigned to the sea to save lives.
The EU diplomat said that his contribution is intended to save millions of lives especially the lives of children who are vulnerable to many diseases in Africa.
The Achille Mario Dogliotti College of Medicine and Health Sciences which is known as AM Dogliotti was established in the early and mid-60s as a concept for Liberia to train its own medical doctors by President William V. S. Tubman.
The AM Dogliotti College of Medicine and Health Sciences was formerly called the Monrovia-Torino College of Medicine was merged with the University of Liberia as the seventh academic program, and the second professional school (the Law School being the first professional school).
The country’s oldest and only medical school is still faced with challenges, as outlined by some female final year medical students and faculty members.
Reported by: Watson G. Richards
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