The objectives of the Programme can be looked at from four perspectives: Students, Faculty, Schools and the community.
Students
Generally, the vocational training programme seeks:
1. To allow students to apply the knowledge acquired from the classroom on the field through service provision to help address the health and health-related needs of the people.
2. To enable students to gain relevant experience in working with other health professionals and stakeholders in the community through the exchange of ideas.
3. To help students to learn how the health system is planned for effective evidence-based service provision.
4. To enable students to understand how the health system operates and prepare them for work upon completion.
5. To help students identify the nature of development issues confronting the country.
6. To help students develop appropriate attitudes towards working in the community and deprived areas of the country where their services are most needed.
Specifically, the University believes that by the end of the Programme, the student should be able to:
1. Describe the Health System under the various disciplines as well as the clinical components of the Health System.
2. Understand the community and its allied services as related to public health.
3. Understand the relationship between the various health disciplines to ensure public health.
4. Undertake short or mini research projects during the Programme or conceive and implement a community project in the host community.
Faculty / Lecturers
The vocational training programme seeks to afford Faculty the opportunity to:
1. Put their expertise at the disposal of host health facilities, institutions/industries and communities;
2. Identify health-related and other developmental challenges/problems in the host community, investigate them and make recommendations to the appropriate authority.
Schools
The vocational training programme seeks to afford Schools the opportunity to:
1. Establish a longitudinal study on several indicators, such as monitoring the nutritional status and immunisation coverage of women and children under five (5) years, health insurance coverage and renewals in selected electoral areas, and sexual behaviour among adolescents in selected electoral areas in the nation and beyond.
2. Organise meetings or seminars with the communities and other stakeholders on specific projects identified after the longitudinal study and incorporate stakeholder feedback and concerns into the projects.
Community
The vocational training programme seeks to help communities to:
1. Identify health-related and other developmental challenges/problems in the community.
2. Conceive and implement interventions to address health-related and other developmental challenges/problems or make recommendations to the appropriate quarters.