GMC says the schools no longer
meet accepted standards of
practice in the UK
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,
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