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The Medical and Dental Council of the Gambia has recently advised of its decision not to accredit the undergraduate medical programme at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences (COMHS) at the Amercian International University West Africa (AIUWA), The Gambia. For more information, please contact the Registrar on registrar@mdcg.gm.

The General Medical Council (GMC) has made changes to the criteria for assessing doctors’ overseas primary medical qualifications as acceptable overseas qualifications to apply for registration. The amendments address operational challenges faced since the policy was last updated, largely due to the evolving way medical education is delivered globally.

The New Zealand government is reviewing the country’s health workforce legislation to ensure the focus is on putting patients first. The review will consider several issues including: Prioritizing patient voices in regulatory decisions, reducing red tape to make healthcare more accessible, and making it easier to recognize overseas regulations. A consultation is open until 30 April.

FSMB’s 2025 Annual Meeting are now available online!

General Medical Council (GMC) welcomes judgment following judicial review by British Medical Association The GMC welcomes the decision of the UK High Court to dismiss on all three grounds a judicial review claim brought by the British Medical Association. In the claim they had challenged the GMC’s decision to apply its core professional standards – Good medical practice – to doctors, physician associates and anesthesia associates and the use of the term "medical professionals" within this guidance.

On April 23, 2025, the Oregon Medical Board received the “2025 Best of Boards Award” for its development and adoption of Disciplinary Guidelines. 

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has published its Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2024-2027. The scheme commits Ahpra to significantly reduce emissions related to travel, waste and paper usage by at least 20% by 2027. It also commits the regulator to support and encourage health practitioners to cut emissions in their practice and the services for which they work.

The Medical Council Ireland has announcedthe appointment of Dr Maria O’Kane as its new CEO. Dr O’Kane replaces Mr Leo Kearns, who left the post of CEO in September. Until earlier this year Dr O’Kane was Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland. She will take up her new post in June.

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The Indian government has submitted a proposalto dissolve the Delhi Medical Council, citing financial and administrative irregularities, with the health department asking the Directorate General of Health Services to oversee its functions until a new body is formed. This is impacting the ability of doctors to gain registration and to obtain certificates required for registration abroad.

The Medical Protection Society in Ireland has warnedthat guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare should ensure that clinicians don’t become ‘liability sinks’ where they end up being held responsible for AI-influenced decisions, even when the technology may be flawed.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union has called for an investigation into the licensing and recruitment of overseas doctors in the wake of rising cases of unethical medical practices and organ trafficking. The union claims that medical practitioners are brought to the country, contracted, and hired through practices that circumvent ethical and professional standards. In response, the Medical Council has said that it conducts thorough evaluations of all overseas medical practitioners as prescribed by law.