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A total of 157 out of 225 Ghanaian doctors trained abroad failed the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) exam, which gives them the necessary licenses to practice in Ghana.
Only 68, representing a success rate of 30.2%, were able to prove themselves during the review conducted from February 22, 2019 to March 2, 2019 and results published last week.
The 225 includes 208 general practitioners, eight general dentists, eight specialists and a "mature" candidate, who has studied in more than 10 universities in China, Ukraine, Russia, the Philippines and Belarus for six years.
The biannual review, introduced in 2000, aims to ensure that doctors trained in other countries have the knowledge and skills to provide medical and dental care to patients in the country.
In addition to the $ 700 registration fee, candidates must provide proof of medical schooling in order to write the exam and must pbad the 50% pbad mark in all six disciplines under consideration for the examination. to be eligible for a license.
Unsuccessful candidates are given the opportunity to re-register and re-write the exam with multiple-choice sessions, problem-solving sessions and oral exams.
Some candidates who failed the Feb. 2019 review yesterday told the Ghanaian Times that they suspected a criminal act, alleging that the Council had deliberately dropped them to earn more money through voting. .
Dr. Eli Atukpui, MDC Registrar, then rebutted the allegation, claiming that the results could not be manipulated because they were subjected to rigorous processes and validated by review panels composed of practitioners senior management, who did not risk their reputation.
He revealed that the failure rate has been the same for 19 years, since more than 50% of internationally educated and tested candidates have failed each year.
He stated that the highest success rate of 48% was recorded in November 2017 with 139 candidates, while the lowest success rate was registered in February of the same year, during which 180 candidates had have been examined.
Ghanaians with doctor training in Cuba and Venezuela reported better results.
The main strength of this failure, Dr. Atukpui revealed, was that the candidates had insufficient knowledge of the various disciplines in the medical field, including the basic sciences, which is corroborated by the examiner's statements published in the Ghanaian Times.
This, he said, stems from the practice that some foreign medical schools admitted students with poor results to the West African Diploma Certification Test (WASSCE) and to the University of West Africa. 39 others studying arts, visual arts and home economics instead of general sciences.
Some of the WASSCE results bulletins used to secure admissions, discovered by the Ghanaian Times, indicated an injection of Ds, Es and F and were even inadmissible for general university programs in Ghana, speak less of medicine.
Dr. Atukpui blamed part of the blame on foreign universities that did not seek to interpret the results of the candidates, as well as agents motivated by monetary gains, continued to link the "weak" students to the universities.
Some of the foreign universities, he said, had advanced equipment, but the instructors and lecturers were not up to the task or were hampered, in some cases, by differences in performance. language.
When asked if the examination was back-breaking, he stated in 2015 that a review had been conducted with 30 medical students from the University of Ghana, in a short time, but that all had succeeded.
He added that the Council only ensured that half-cooked doctors were not licensed and left innocent lives innocent, adding that the MDC would continue to demand standards.
Dr. Atukpui said the council, as part of efforts to reduce failures, advised parents to check the background of foreign universities before they register their wards.
He advised internationally trained doctors to sit down and learn to let them pbad. To those who wish to study abroad, he said that they should make the right choices.
Dr. Atukpui badured the public that licensed physicians were qualified to provide health care.
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