Olayinka Omigbodun is the first female professor of psychiatry in Nigeria and the first female provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Oyo State.
are the first female professor of psychiatry in Nigeria. How did you achieve this feat?
I joined the University of Ibadan as a psychiatry lecturer, and honourary consultant to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in 1997. By the grace of God, I rose through the ranks and in 2008, I became a professor. I must note that I probably became the first female professor of psychiatry in the country because women practising in the field were not many initially. However, we now have many women practising.
However, there were a lot of things that were not very clear to me in psychiatry. There were some people who would say they were hearing voices and seeing things that other people could not hear or see. I never planned to be provost. I simply planned to be the best at what I do. My specialty is child adolescent psychiatry. That was because I was under the tutelage of the first Nigerian child adolescent psychiatrist, Prof Olatawura. He said he felt I should go into child and adolescent psychiatry, and he mentored me.
A few people suggested to me the potential my leadership roles had, and I decided to contest the position of provost. The position I occupy now is an elective position. One has to campaign and people have to believe in the one’s vision and mission before voting for one. We have to run on diesel, and that is expensive. Many times when we need urgent things, I have to put down my money to run the government-owned institution. That is because of the bureaucracy involved in trying to get funds.
There is no way we can compete with those in private universities because they have immediate access to funds. Meanwhile, grants help universities improve their ranking. The number and quality of publications that emanate from funded research also helps with ranking. The leadership of this country needs to realise that ‘grantmanship’ should be run as a business.
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