Medical and Dental Council Of Nigeria  Public Notice on Strict adherance to the MDCN guidelines on Internship training and full registration by training institutions, supervising Consultants and interns

 

The attention of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has been drawn to:

 

a.  The failure of some accredited training institutions and supervising consultants to effectively coordinate and ensure strict adherence to the Council's guildelines on internship training and supervision.

 

b.  The failure of some medical/dental interns to ensure that their internship training conforms/meets the minimum standareds set by the Council, especially on the approved duration of training in each posting, timely submission of their internship sign off forms and application for full registration with the Council.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, the Council expect as follows

 

i.  Chief Medical Directors (CMD's) of the training institutions must accompancy applications/sign off forms with authority letters dult signed by the CMDs or their representatives.

 

ii.  Each of the four (4) postings is to be performed by the interns for an uninterrupted twelve (12) weekls. Where posting is interrupted for any reason (e.g. Industrial actions, ill health maternity level and any form of level) the intern on resumption will repeat in full the interrupted rotation.

 

 

Consultants should not sign any intern off if the required uninterrupted 12 weeks rotation is not met.www.medicalworldnigeria.com

 

iii.  Formal approval and releases must be obtained from the relevant institutions when internship training will be performed at more than one training institutions. Council should be duly notified either during the training or soon after the conclusion of the training.

 

iv.  Council views as serious offence and punishable by law (under the Medical and Dental practitioners Act) any practitioner or institution where engages any medical/dental practitioner without sighting and verifying that such practitioner or person holds a valid and genuine registration with the Council.

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Council hereby reiterates it stand that no practitioners will undertake NYSC programme without obtaining his/her MDCN full registration certificate. Council on it part is committed to speedy  processing and release of full registration certificates. All doctors can now register and make payment electronically once they are expected to update their personal data and could proceed to maka payments where required.

 

All approved internship training institutions, the CMDs, the Consultants and the medical/dental interns to take note of these regulations and ensure strict compliance. Equally, the Council appreciates your continued efforts at ensuring high standards of understanding to sustain the standards

 

Signed 

Dr. A. A. Ibrahim, Dsc., Mni

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