Medical graduates from nine universities in Nigeria will no longer be able to obtain licenses to practice in the United Kingdom, following a decision by the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) to ban the higher institutions.
The GMC, a body of independent regulators which registers medical doctors to practise in the UK, took the decision to bar graduates from the nine universities from writing PLAB.
PLAB is the UK exam that enables non-UK Medical graduates to undertake post-graduate medical training in the country.
The affected graduates are those who graduated after December 10, 2010 from Ambrose Ali University, Ebonyi State University, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, University of Jos, University of Nigeria and the University of Port Harcourt.
It also applies to those who graduated on or after April 1, 2010 from Igbinedion University College of Health Sciences and the University of Benin.
According to Jason Day of the GMC's press office, the schools were axed because they no longer meet the required standards for practise in the UK.
He added that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) had also advised that they suspend accreditation of some medical schools in the country.
“The decision only applies to students who graduated from those medical schools after the MDCN suspended their accreditation,” Day said
Posted: at 21-12-2011 11:49 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
Dan_Fulani at 21-12-2011 07:02 PM (13 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Ajento on 21-12-2011 04:10 PM
I am not surprised. Sooner or later it will affect other professions. May God help Nigeria, else everything might come to a standstill.
Loss of accreditation for our medical schools should be a very serious matter. It means that the quality of medical education in those universities are below standard. It means that the training that local doctor got is inferior. It is not the fault of the students or the professors or even the University. It is the refusal of the governments to fully fund the universities. This should be a wake up call to our leaders to stop the corruption, money grab, and support our higher education. Nigeria spend the lowest percentage of GNP on education of any major country in Africa. Ghana and South Africa spend more money on education than Nigeria. As long as Nigerian leaders refused to provide adequate funding for higher education, the medical education will continue to suffer. Soon other nations will follow UK's lead and reject our doctors. South Africa may do so soon.
This is one reason why Nigerian leaders go overseas for medical service. They know what they created at home. Our current leaders are just determined to ruin our country for personal gains. A senator's annual compensation (salary plus benefits) is enough to fund a medical school in Nigeria. Add the stolen money to that, you can build and equip two specialist hospitals.
dan fulani
Posted: at 21-12-2011 07:02 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
ZION7ZION at 21-12-2011 09:19 PM (13 years ago) (m)
i think is time for Nigeria to be more practical in their education,our medical students waste alot of time in school learning more theoritical stuffs, the best way to solve this problem is to let them focus in the area of medicine they plan to specialize on from their first year in the university, rather than spending all these years on different parts of medicine
Posted: at 21-12-2011 09:19 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
........yu already no that 
...heheh...if yu wanna smell what kebella is cooking........bring it up!!
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