More of the foreign-trained doctors and dental specialists failed examinations to secure practice permit of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, this year.
An aggregate 334 doctors and seven dental practitioners who moved on from medical colleges outside Nigeria sat for the exam this year.
Just 160 doctors and four dental specialists passed- - a 40% success rate.
At their enlistment at the MDCN central command, the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, called the pass rate "worrisome."
“Parents, please ask questions before you send your ward to overseas institutions. The fact it [the institution] is foreign does not make it good or excellent. Shine your
eyes before you spend your hard-earned dollars sending your child to a school that’s not good,” he said.
The acting MDCN Registrar, Tajudeen Sanusi, said the council's examination was to guarantee that the medical training Nigerian students get abroad measure up to guidelines in Nigeria.
Passing the examination decides qualification of new specialists to be temporarily enrolled by the council.
In the interim, an obligatory one-year housemanship for new doctors goes on the web and it will be brought together from one year from now, it was accumulated.
Potential house officers will look for arbitrary slots through online application for presenting on any hospital across the nation.
The health service said bringing together housemanship situation will evacuate partiality.
With 4,000 youthful doctors and 4,300 slots, there's sufficient situation however craving to serve in most loved healing facilities implies many specialists absolutely never get arrangement.
A board setting up the online incorporated situation for house officers would begin work one week from now.
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