The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has lamented the poor performance of foreign trained doctors in its recent assessment examination.
According to The PUNCH, the body stated that 529 foreign trained medical and dental graduates failed the assessment examination.
The assessment examination took place over two days, from the July 12 to 13, 2023 at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Only 189 medical school grads and 16 dental school graduates, according to the council, passed the test.
Additionally, it was revealed that 14 dentistry grads and 515 medical graduates failed the test.
Commenting on the result, the MDCN Registrar, Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, said, “The pass is at 27.4 per cent, which is poor. However, the assessment exam is necessary because we cannot put the health of Nigerians in jeopardy; it is better we have a few doctors than have doctors that will put the health of Nigerians in danger. All hands must be on deck to put this country in the right place.”
“It’s 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 exam. Even if you are a professor of medicine here and you’ve never practised in the United Kingdom or the United States, when you go there, you subject yourself to their assessment exam. So, it’s a global practice,” he said.
