Graduates of medical colleges from 9 Nigerian higher institutions seeking to register or obtain a license to practice in the United Kingdom have been barred by the General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom.
PLAB, is the UK exam that enables non UK Medical graduates to undertake post graduate medical training in the country.
The GMC is a body of independent regulators that registers doctors to practice medicine in the UK.
The decision to bar qualifications from the medical colleges was taken on 14 February 2011.
According to guidelines issued by the GMC, doctors and medical graduates who obtained their qualifications after December 10, 2010 from the affected institutions would not be approved to take the PLAB test.
The Nigerian schools barred according to the GMC’s are:
1. Ambrose Ali University (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
2. Ebonyi State University (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
3. Igbinedion University College of Health Sciences (this applies only to those who graduated on or after 1 April 2010).
4. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
5. Nnamdi Azikiwe University (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
6. University of Benin (this applies only to those who graduated on or after 1 April 2010).
7. University of Jos (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
8. University of Nigeria (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010) and
9. University of Port Harcourt (this only applies to those who graduated after 10 December 2010).
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