Foreign-trained Nigerian medical graduates have raised concerns after the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) unexpectedly increased its registration fee for newly qualified doctors without giving any reason.
The affected graduates, who recently passed the MDCN’s June qualifying examination and are preparing for their induction, said they initially received an email on July 10 directing them to pay ₦265,000 for registration and induction.
One of the graduates, Betty Joan (name withheld), who studied medicine in Russia, said many candidates had already begun making financial plans based on the stated amount.
“We had already started planning around that amount,” Joan said.
