م.نصرالدين المنتصرJumada II 6, 1444 AH.
Sana’a – More than 3700 applicants, from different medical specialties, will take the fourth medical licensing exam in Sana’a by tomorrow,Thursday. The exam, given by the supreme medical council, is at 21 September University for Medical and Applied Sciences.
In this regard, His Ecxellency the head of Supreme Medical Council – the rector of 21 September University for Medical and Applied Sciences Professor Mojahed Ali Measar said, ” there are 3720 applicants from different medical specializations, BA and diplomas, will take the exam for getting the medical licence”.
The head of the supreme medical council clarified that the number of applicants is divided into three periods of time, classified as follows: 1262 applicants will take the exam in the first period, 1260 in the second period and 1198 applicants in the third period.
His Excellency the rector of the university – head of supreme medical council mentioned that the first period is limited to the applicants who have BA qualifications,( medicine, pharmacy, clinical pharmacy, dentistry, labs, nursing, anaesthetics, radiology, midwifery and nutrition) and diplomas( operations technician, emergencies, paramedic, dentistry, radiology and anaesthetics). Regarding the second period, it will be limited to those who have diplomas in pharmacy, labs and midwifery. And the third period is limited to those who have qualifications of paramedic and nursing diploma.
Professor Measar emphasized that the medical licensing exam has become a common evaluation system for those wanting to get a licence to practise medicine in Yemen. So, a medical graduate must receive a licence to practise 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 have gone through this stringent exam before granting the licence to practise.
It is worth mentioning that supreme medical council supervised three medical licensing exams in 2022, and with a number of 10,000 applicants who took the exam at 21 September university. Those applicants were from different provinces of Yemen.
