The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has warned Nigerians to be mindful of the countries they send their children for medical and dental education because “it is not all the medical institutions abroad that are good enough.”
The council said it would embark on measures to ensure that “dangerous people, who are not well trained and people who have not satisfied minimum conditions” were not unleashed on Nigerians.
The acting registrar of MDCN, Dr. Udugbai Illevbare, said this in an interview with SATURDAY PUNCH in Abuja, at the induction ceremony for foreign medical graduates, who succeeded in the council’s assessment examination held between April 4 and 5 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
Out of the 142 candidates that sat for the examination, only 85, representing 60 per cent passed.
But it was better for candidates of dentistry as all the seven who sat for the exam passed.
According to Illevbare, the MDCN has a duty to ensure that dentists and doctors, who pass through the council and wish to practise medicine and dentistry in Nigeria, possess the requisite qualification.
He said, “We must go ahead to verify and test them; this was why we started this issue of having to subject them to assessment and examination.
“In this particular exam, only 60 per cent passed; that tells us that not all doctors who were trained abroad are fit to practise in this country.”
Punch
Story...who will believe this? Why did you not mention the university names? Or are theses universities in Niger?
ReplyDeleteWe all know that some doctors "bury their mistakes". Keep up the good work, continue to sieve out the unqualified doctors.
ReplyDeleteAm not surprise at all bcos I have had an experience with some of them from Sweden on one of occasion
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ReplyDeleteI agree with u jare, there is no way students who studied in UK, CANADA, EUROPE, INDIA, AUSTRALIA or AMERICAN Institutions wont pass the test.
For sure, they will do far more excellently than Nigerians, where is Nigeria in the 1st list of 1500 Universities in the world.
Also the country, when the doctors go abroad, they still have to undergo medical training and exams over there before they can become qualified as doctors,
WHO WILL EVEN WANT TO LEAVE THE GREAT MEDICAL OPPORTUNITIES OVER THERE, AND COME OVER TO THIS WRETCHED COUNTRY OF OURS, ITS DAMN IMPOSSIBLE...MAYBE THE DEGREES ARE FROM NIGER OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
Before we crucify Nigeria...Which I agree to any way, d country and her educational system is in shambles no doubt...but let it be told here that despite d poor educational system here, not all graduates in any field of endeavor are better than our Nigeria graduates. Foreign education does not automatically bequeath any student with automatic knowledge, d only advantage it has over our bad system in Nigeria is dat it exposes the students to a more practical and pedagogic(problem proposing)education. So I conclude as a Nigerian who have had d opportunity of studying in three countries from three continents of the world by saying that just as we have mediocre Nigeria trained graduates same way we have others who are great and can stand d rigors of academics any where in the world.Not all dat is from abroad(USA,BRITAIN.AUSTRALIA etc)is good.
ReplyDeleteLET US ALL REMEMBER THAT IT IS THE INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES THAT MATTERS AND NOT WHERE HE OR SHE STUDIED. WE HAVE THE GOOD AND THE BAD IN ALL SITUATIONS. SOME OF OUR GS ARE GOOD TOO.
ReplyDeleteForget about all these abroad education stuff, individual ability matter most, education abroad will give you better exposure and confident fine but does not make you brilliant. I conducted graduate engineer test for an MSc civil engineering graduate from coventry university uk and a B.Tech graduate from a nigeria university. The nigeria first degree holder scores 65% while the MSc holder from UK though own his first degree from nigeria scores 26%.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a surprise. Nigeria is a tropical country and there is 'tropical medicine'. Also, technology may help make things easier for students in the developed world, hence, the rough and hard basics that most nigerian medical student are missed by those in the developed countries. so, its not a surprise.
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