Pre-internship Nigerian medical graduates lack basic musculoskeletal competency.

Purpose: Our aim was to assess the basic musculoskeletal competency of pre-internship graduates from Nigerian medical schools.

Methods: We administered the Freedman and Bernstein basic musculoskeletal competency examination to 113 pre-internship graduates from seven Nigerian medical schools over a three year period from 2008 to 2010 at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. Five specialist residents took the examination to test criteria relevance.