MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

Section 8: Full registration of medical practitioners and of dental surgeons

1988Section 8 of 22Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Subject to section 16 and to Rules made under section 6 (4) of this Act, a person shall be entitled to be fully registered as a medical practitioner or as a dental surgeon if-
(a) he has attended a course of training approved by the Council under section 9 of this Act as respects the medical or dental profession, as the case may be;
(b) the course was conducted at an institution so approved, or partly at one such institution and partly at another or others;
(c) he holds a qualification so approved; and
(d) he holds a certificate of experience issued in pursuance of section 11 of this Act.
(2) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall be entitled to register any post-graduate qualification if the qualification is approved by the Council in a specialised branch of medicine or dental surgery.

Cite this section

Section 8, MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ACT (1988).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/medical-and-dental-practitioners-act/section/8/