Background: Mental illnesses are a major public health problem around the world and the prevalence and burden of common mental disorders is growing, especially in Nigeria with a longstanding history of economic instability and security challenges. The psychiatry clerkship can play an important role in influencing students' attitudes towards psychiatry, either positively or negatively. The experience gathered by students during the posting, as a result of input from psychiatric doctors (consultants and trainee psychiatrists), other mental health practitioners, and the patients themselves contributes to the acquired benefits. Objective: This study aimed to assess the overall perception of a two-week psychiatry clerkship by students at a Nigerian university.

Community Medicine tends to study health and disease in a population of a defined community and it provides comprehensive health services ranging from preventive, promotive, curative to rehabilitative services. Understanding the perceptions and attitude of medical students towards Community Medicine will be a great tool in planning a sound medical labour force for a better healthcare delivery Objective This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of medical students towards Community Medicine as a specialty. The study was carried out in UNEC with a total of 204 respondents who were in their fifth and final year classes. Data collection was by means of self-administered close ended questionnaire. Two hundred and four medical students returned their questionnaires and they displayed good knowledge of the discipline and its role in the society; majority 195(95.6%) perceived Community Medicine as vital part of medicine. While 150(73.5%), disagreed with living and working in rural area. However, only 90(44.1%) would choose Community Medicine as a specialty. Among the 114 who would not specialize in Community Medicine, 101(49.5%) were of the opinion that 'it was not interesting'. Medical students in UNEC showed good knowledge of Community Medicine but majority would not specialize in the discipline mainly because they did not find it interesting. Continuous education of stakeholders, students, parents and general populace as to what really constitutes Community Medicine might be useful. Also curriculum should be redesigned to lay emphasis on the peculiarly interesting rural community-based postings. Key messages Continuous education of stakeholders, students, parents and general populace as to what really constitutes Community Medicine might be useful. Curriculum should be redesigned to lay emphasis on the peculiarly interesting rural community-based postings.

For certain, one does not need to be a colossal voracious reader as to arriving at what Maya Angelou is driving at in virtually all her works. Of course, Maya is not just a fantastic poet but also a renowned storyteller, a fearless activist, a peculiar autobiographer, a gifted singer and playwright whose works generally provoke some sort of empowering flash of thoughts in that they are mostly soused in a struggle to overcome prejudice and injustice. As a matter of fact, Maya Angelou’s works are evidently frontal and a host of them have been literarily torn in and out. Hence they are glaringly a projection of self-awareness even in the face of oppression. It is on this stroke that this present study seeks to dig deep into the most confrontational work of Maya Angelou, her assertive but reliant poem “Still I Rise” so as to come by other extra-linguistic significations therein. And when a study tends to incorporate other varying meanings in a particular data in relation to context, it is, presumably, under the purview of pragmatics whose preoccupation is to accentuate meaning on context basis. But pragmatics is such broad a discipline with several frameworks. Therefore, even though this paper is going to be very much encompassing in the course of this study, its object of attention is to pragmatically study just a fraction of Maya Angelou’s works, her poem “Still I Rise” to be precise with a viable context-based theory, Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory.