National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria

About National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria

According to Wikipedia, The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria is a parastatal of the Federal Government Ministry of Health. It was established on September 24, 1979, under the National Postgraduate Medical College decree No. 67 now Cap N59 Laws of the Federation 2004. It is a tertiary institution at the apex of medical education in Nigeria, producing medical, surgical, and dental specialists/subspecialists who are capable of providing world-class research, teaching and healthcare. The college organizes the mandatory part 1 and the part 2 fellowship examinations for medical and dental doctors in residency training, as well as the entrance primary fellowship examinations into several faculties. Success in the part 2 examination leads to the award of the Fellow of the Medical College . The examinations are written twice in a year across the country. Diploma programmes are also run in select faculties, while revision courses are conducted for trainees in all faculties annually. The college administers the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, a MEDLINE-indexed journal published quarterly. On September 14, 2015, the college faulted and objected the dissolution of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria by Muhammadu Buhari, the then President of Nigeria. It insinuated that such premature dissolution of the council will encourage quackery and malpractice in the health sector.