SANA’A- 5000 medical grads from different specialities have taken the first medical licensing exam in 2022. The exam was given by the supreme medical council at 21 September University for Medical and Applied Sciences.The rector of the university – head of the supreme medical council, Professor Mojahed Measar, clarified that the number of examinees who have BA qualifications is 1641, classified as follows: 344 GPs; 349pharmacists; 127nurses ; 422 dentists ; 237 laboratorians ; 15 clinical pharmacists ; 61 anethestists ; 15 radiologists; 25 nutritionists and 10 midwives. He also pointed out that the examinees who have diplomas are 3230, classified as follows: 487 midwives; 533 pharmacists ; 952 paramedics; 439 lab technicians; 611 nurses ; 55 anesthetists ; 29 radiologists; 90 Operations technicians and 34 dental technicians.

He confirmed that 2022 is the year of raising awareness of patients’ rights and doctors’ duties. Accordingly, there is no place in medicine for those who are ill-equipped to practise due to poor training and lack of skills. Professor Measar mentioned that members of supreme medical council visited Ibb, Hadramout and Hodiada provinces last year, and a lot of applicants, from those provinces, took the medical licensing exam.
He emphasized that the medical licensing exam has become a common evaluation system for those wanting to get a license to practice medicine in Yemen. So, a medical grad must receive a license to practice medicine before he or she can be called a physician in a legal sense, a process that usually entails examination by supreme medical council. So the exam assesses a physician’s ability to apply knowledge, concepts, and principles, and to determine fundamental patient-centered skills that are important in health and disease and that constitute the basis of safe and effective patient care. It enhances the confidence level of our health care as all doctors who practise in Yemen had gone through this stringent exam before granting the license to practise.

For her part, the secretary of the supreme medical council, Dr.Fadia Al-Dailmi mentioned that the supreme medical council is the sole official entity that grants medical licence in Yemen
and it sets its own rules and regulations that require passing an examination that demonstrates qualification for licensure