Doctors Get Medical Exams Committee

The Anambra State Ministry of Health has inaugurated a six-man Continuous Medical Examination Committee to update the performance and knowledge of medical doctors in the state.

In a speech in Awka, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Amobi Ilika, said the creation of the committee was in line with the mandate of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria that practising doctors should be certified yearly.

Ilika said doctors were expected to undergo continuous medical education and gather a minimum of 20 credit loads yearly to enable them renew their licences.

“This committee will be preparing and running the continuous medical education for doctors in the state civil service and other doctors practising in the state.

“The credit loads will be gathered by undergoing lectures and clinical deliberations that will refresh the doctors,” Ilika said.

He warned that any doctor who failed to keep abreast of current development in the medical field would be decertified.

The commissioner urged members of the committee to be alive to their responsibility by ensuring regular conduct of lectures and programmes for doctors to be in tune with modern medical practice.

“The committee will conduct continuous medical assessment of practitioners on a regular basis, promote activities and programmes that will be of particular interest to the state,’’ Ilika said.

He told the committee to keep record of doctors that would attend the lectures and to send progress reports to the medical council and the ministry.

The committee is headed by Dr Paul Obiegbu, Director of Medical Services.