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Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), yesterday, inducted new 205 foreign-trained medical doctors and dentists who were successful in the assessment test conducted by the council recently.
The induction exercise conducted at MDCN’s headquarters in Abuja witnessed the participation of family and friends of the new doctors, as well as government officials, including the Minister of State for Health, Tunji Alausa; former ministers of Health and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Isaac Adewole and Adamu Aliero, respectively, among several others.
MDCN Registrar, Tajudeeen Sanusi, told newsmen after the induction ceremony that over 700 foreign-trained doctors mostly from Ukraine participated in the assessment test, out of which 495 (72.6 per cent) failed the assessment examination.
He said the assessment examination was designed by MDCN to test the capacity of the doctors vis-a-vis the knowledge and skills they claimed to had acquired from their individual institutions abroad.
“This time, we had over 700 applications from the foreign-trained doctors. Unfortunately, 205 passed the examinations indicating 27.4 per cent success rate. Ukraine trained doctors were more than candidates from other places. Unfortunately, the assessment test exposed that they never had enough clinical trainings that could have earned them MDCN certification.
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