The Medical & Dental Council, would like to inform practitioners that the CPD programme schedule for Friday, 19th June, 2009 has been rescheduled to Friday 3rd July, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Any inconvenience caused is much regretted. REGISTRAR
Registration Examination for Medical & Dental Practitioners
The Medical & Dental Council, Ghana wishes to inform the general
public that the Registration examination for Medical & Dental
Practitioners will be in June, 2009. read more....
College of Health Sciences: Third Annual Scientific Conference
Theme: Moving beyond Traditional Boundaries in Sciences: the Role of the College of
Health Sciences. read more...
Training is a core business of the Council. It assures the public that a doctor whose name appears on the medical register has met appropriate training standards for medical practice in Ghana.
Medical and Dental Council a statutory
governmental agency to regulate the standards
of training and practice of medicine and dentistry
in Ghana.
To discharge this heavy responsibility, the Council
must therefore be guided by a clearly defined
path that can be traced at any point in time.
With the increasing awareness of human and
peoples' rights and the fact that, all over the world,
most complaints lodged by the public at regulatory
bodies centre on professionalism, brings into sharp
focus the need to critically look at the crucial issues
of ethics and code of conduct of the practitioners.
It is the compelling need to address the above
issues in an orderly, effective, and objective manner
which can be measured, evaluated, and used to hold
the practitioners and the Council publicly accountable.
Strategic Plan lays out the Councils future direction, Performance targets and aims at consolidating the Council's direction and re-focusing it to overcome
challenges it faces to effectively achieve its vision, mission and major goals.
New techniques and modern technology are continually evolving in the practice
of medicine and dentistry and the competencies of the practitioners needs to be sharpened and updated.
In January of every year, The Registrar shall publish in the Gazette the
name, addresses, dates of registration and qualifications of all
registered practitioners. The Council shall provide three classes of
registers for the registration of practitioners