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Article History

Received: 30 January 2026

Accepted: 30 March 2026

First Online: 2 April 2026

Declarations

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: This study involved secondary analysis of de-identified application data collected for the Medix Research Fellowship. All applicants provided informed consent for the use of their anonymised data for research purposes at the point of application. Ethical review and exemption or approval were obtained from the Ethics Committee of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (NHREC/05/01/2008B-FW00002458-1RB00002424). All approaches conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki and the Nigerian National Code of Health Research Ethics before analysis. All data were maintained in compliance with institutional guidelines for confidentiality and data security.

: Not applicable. No individual person’s data are presented in this manuscript.

: The authors declare no competing interests.