It gives me great pleasure to write the Editorial of this commenorative edition of the Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine (AIPM), a journal which is a product of the excellence embedded in the Residency Training program of the University College hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
The mission of AIPM is yo meet the continuing educational needs of postgraduate doctors, as well as to stimulate research and academic pursuit. This is a significantly supportive factor towards achieving the mission of the UCH which is to render excellent , prompt, affordable, sustainable and accessible health care in an envirnoment that promotes hope and dignity, irrespective of status and development of high quality personnel in an atmosphere that stimulates excellent and relevant research.
This edition of AIPM features articles on some of the lectures delivered during the Golden jubilee anniversary celebrations of the Hospital in November 2007. (It also reproduce a landmark articles by one of the iconsof excellence the UCH has produced).
It is my expectation that residents and other doctors who read this articles would be inspired to focus on the attainment of the highest quality of health care delivery, as well as to initiate and conduct ground breaking researches that would place the name of UCH indelibly on the map of Medical Knowledge worldwide.