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PROCEDURES RELATING TO APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS MEDICAL AND DENTAL INTERNS:
- Applicant must apply for registration as medical or dental intern to the office of the Registrar in a prescribed form (Application form on Website).
- Application must be accompanied by:
- Proof of citizenship,
- Copies of academic qualifications dully certified by a Commissioner of Oaths,
- iii. Academic transcript of subjects,
- Proof qualification evaluation from Namibia Qualification Authority (NQA) - Foreign Trained Graduates (FTG),
- Proof of competency in English if not a graduate of an English Language University,
- All documents must be translated into English language and certified by a sworn translator,
- vii. Proof qualification evaluation by the Educational Commission for Foreign Trained Medical Graduates (ECFMG) - FTMG only.
- viii. School leaving certificate and,
- Proof of payment of non-refundable application fee.
- Pre-internship evaluation is compulsory for all foreign trained medical and dental graduates before they may be registered as interns.
- The nature, contents and the extent or ambit of the evaluation is determined by Council from time to time to test the basic knowledge in the following major domains to be covered during internship:
Medical Graduates:
- General surgery,
- Internal Medicine,
- Obstetrics and Gynecology,
- Paediatrics and
- Psychiatry
Dental Graduates:
- General Clinical Dentistry Including Conservative Dentistry
- Periodontology,
- Dental Radiology,
- Maxillofacial Dentistry Including Dental Trauma,
- Prosthodontics including Implantology,
- Dental & Maxillofacial Pathology,
- Endodontics,
- Orthodontics including Dental Paedodontics,
- Dental Ethics.
- Evaluations take place every year during January/February and September/October for medical graduates and, January/February and October/November for dental graduates.
- A graduate has the right to choose which sittings to take.
- Due to limited space for internship training at approved training hospitals, priority is given to Namibian citizens.
Medical and Dental Council Application Forms
Banking Details:
Medical And Dental Council
First National Bank
Business Cheque Account: 62072396049
Branch Code: 281872
Swift Code: FIRNNANX