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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Why Nigerian Medical Students Troop Overseas – FG

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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, an agency of the Federal Government, on Monday in Abuja, said the number of students going to study in medical colleges outside the country has been increasing because of the failure of medical schools to meet specified standards.
 
Registrar/Chief Executive of MDCN, Dr. Abdulmumini Ibrahim, stated this during the induction of 339 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates.
 
The figure includes 335 general doctors and four dentists, who passed the council’s assessment examination.
 
The council also identified restricted class quotas as another factor pushing medical students to leave the country for training abroad.
 
According to Ibrahim, the increase in the number of students sitting its twice-yearly assessment examinations was “due to increase in students studying abroad because medical schools in Nigeria were unable to accommodate all students who passed university matriculation examinations.”
 
He attributed the increase to failure of some medical schools to meet MDCN requirements and subsequent loss of their training status.
 
About 443 students sat the tests this year after going through four months of remedial tutorials.
 
Ibrahim said it was important that quality was assured in medical education.
 
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute, represented by a Director in the ministry, Dr Ngozi Onwudiwe, said Nigeria hoped its new doctors, returning from medical training abroad, would use their knowledge to “give our people the best.”
 
Source: Punch News

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