The Medical and Dental Council is the Statutory Agency under the Ministry of Health responsible for the regulation of the training and practice of medicine and dentistry in Ghana.
Accordingly, the Council is mandated by law, to assess facilities and contents of training programmes and conducts examinations for the registration of foreign trained medical and dental practitioners and physician assistants.
After extensive consultative engagements and in fulfilment of its object of securing in the public interest the highest standards in the training and practice of medicine and dentistry in Ghana, the Council is undertaking the following policy reforms to ensure that basic-and pre-registration training of medical and dental practitioners are in accordance with international regulatory best practice:
- Effective 2022, only graduates from Council’s Recognised Training Institutions would be eligible to apply for the registration examination.
- Recognised Training Institutions (RTI) should ensure that entry certificates of students in training are verified or authenticated before completion of the programme.
- Recognised Training Institutions whose graduates do not have the requisite science background with a minimum grade of a credit in each of the subjects are ineligible to apply for Council’s registration examination. Where this requirement is not met, especially in the case of applicants with a non-science background, such students shall undergo a preliminary course in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics or related subjects for a period of 2 – 3 years before being admitted to a medical university to pursue medicine or dentistry after successfully completing this course with a minimum grade of credit in all the subjects. Refer to the grading system of Ghana attached as appendix…..
- Recognised Training Institutions to allow students in the 5th year of their studies to undergo a 6-month to a 12-month practical clinical clerkship/ attachment in Ghana.
- Recognised Training Institutions should enter into formal arrangements with various medical training institutions in Ghana to afford their trainees the opportunity to do the 6-to 12-month structured and well-coordinated clinical clerkship/attachment with logbooks in Ghana. The logbooks used during the period of clerkship/attachment shall be signed by an authorised representative of a local partner medical or dental training institution before being returned to the respective foreign medical universities/faculties. A comprehensive report from the structured clerkship/attachment programme should be accepted as part of the training of the student by the partner foreign medical university/faculty.
- Recognised Training Institutions should institute an exchange programme for faculty to ensure effective monitoring and supervision of the students doing their clinical clerkship/ attachment as well as sharing of experience and best practice.
- Recognised Training Institutions should note that recognition by Council is subject to review annually or any period determined by the Board.
- Recognised Training Institutions who fail, or are unable, or no longer meet any of the criteria set by Council including those contained herein may be de-recognised.
A feedback on the performance of graduates from the various Recognised Training Institutions may be given on demand.
Training Institution seeking Council’s recognition should complete the attached form and pay the requisite fee for an inspection of their facilities.
Institutions interested in Council’s recognition of the training of Ghanaian Medical/Dental students should download Council’s RFTI FORM I, complete and forward same to the address below:
The Registrar,
Medical and Dental Council, Ghana,
P. O. Box AN 10586,
Accra, Ghana.
Tel.: +233 302 661 620
+233 302 661 606
Email: registrar@mdcghana.org