Foreword

Dr Inyang Ukot is a graduate of the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1981). He also holds Fellowships in family medicine from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (1991) and the West African College of Physicians (1995). He holds a Diploma in occupational medicine from the Royal College of Physicians of London (2005) #00005745. He was the coordinator of training in his faculty in the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria between 1995 and 1999. He is an examiner in family medicine at both the West African College of Physicians (WACP) and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN).

Dr. Inyang Ukot is the best person to be the author of Basic Radiology: Foundations and Professional Practice for a couple of reasons:

a) He has had a passion for details, communicating, and teaching spanning decades. He was involved in “teaching” right from his undergraduate days (as a college-employed student part-time demonstrator of Anatomy to junior fellow students in their pre-clinical years), 1979–1981.

b) He commenced the writing of his first book in medicine the year after obtaining his first fellowship in family medicine, and many medical students have benefited from the MCQ book.

c) He is still in the field of writing books, the latest books having a publishing date of 2023.

d) Being a family physician, he has been privileged to have an extensive exposure to patients with most of the conditions in radiology.

He desires that physicians make right diagnoses promptly using a good grasp of fundamentals of Basic Radiology: Foundations and Professional Practice, commence prompt and accurate treatment, activate prompt referral of patients when required, to the specialists for appropriate high-level care, and that complications should be mitigated if they cannot be prevented.

Dr. Inyang Ukot writes medical books. His first book was published in 1996, and it was a Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited-sponsored MCQ book titled Medicine in the Frontline – 1000 MCQs and Answers (with Comments). This is the first textbook on Family Medicine emanating from the West African sub-region. He has more textbooks that simplify medicine ready for publication, and he desires and prays to stop writing on medicine within five years.