439 foreign-trained failed evaluation test - MDCN
A sum of 439 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates failed the assessment examination conducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).
The two-day appraisal assessment was led on November 23 and November 24, 2022, at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto.
The committee's Recorder, Dr Tijani Sanusi, unveiled this with Punch journalist on Sunday.
Sanusi said 916 foreign-trained medical and dental candidates sat for the assessment examination but only 477 candidates passed.
He explained, “It is a global practice that if you train in a particular jurisdiction and you want to go to another jurisdiction, you subject yourself to an assessment examination.
“Even if you are a Professor of Medicine here and you have never practised in the United Kingdom or the United States, when you go in there, you subject yourself to their assessment examination.”
Punch reports that the MDCN evaluation assessment is obligatory for all foreign-trained doctors who intend to rehearse in Nigeria.
The MDCN controls the act of Medication, Dentistry and Elective Medication in the country in the most productive way that protects the best medical services conveyance.
The evaluation assessment is intended for unfamiliar prepared clinical specialists and dental specialists who need to rehearse in Nigeria and it tests the up-and-comers' capacity to apply their essential clinical sciences and clinical abilities in a medical services setting.
The assessment is to guarantee that foreign-trained show themselves fit for rehearsing in Nigeria.
On finishing the assessment, they are given a temporary permit to rehearse in Nigeria.
It is this temporary permit clinical and dental alumni will use to work on during their one-year housemanship after which they are given a permit of full enlistment.
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