UK blacklists medical graduates from UNN and 8 other Nigerian Universities

[Okoro]

UK blacklists medical graduates from 9
universities in nigeria
Posted: 23-Dec-2011 [06:49:59]
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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.

[Uche]

What a bad reputation on the image of Nigeria and UNN.The white banner  of the Nigerian flag has been stained black.We the upcoming medical practitioners should deer to make a difference.