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MDC · GCPS · Ghana

Your route to practising medicine in Ghana, step by step

Licensing exams, registration, housemanship and specialist residency rules are spread across PDFs, portals and notices. This guide puts them in one place, in the order you'll need them, with a citation to the official source for every step.

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Two bodies, two separate processes

  1. 1

    Medical and Dental Council (MDC)

    Your licence to practise: registration exams, provisional and permanent registration, housemanship.

  2. 2

    Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS)

    Specialist training: Primaries, Membership residency, Fellowship. GCPS requires MDC registration first.

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Who this guide is for

Trained in Ghana

Final-year students and new graduates: the Stage 1 deadline, provisional registration, housemanship and permanent registration.

Trained abroad

Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians with foreign degrees: the 6-month clinical attachment, documents, both exam stages and permits.

Heading to residency

Practising doctors: how MDC registration differs from GCPS Membership, Primaries, interviews and Fellowship entry.

How we tell you what's certain

Every step and answer is labelled with one of four statuses, and links to the exact passage it relies on. When the official documents are silent or contradict each other, we say so rather than guess.

Sources last checked: 2026-10-14. See all sources

Confirmed
Stated directly in a current official document.
Conditional
Depends on your circumstances, or may change (e.g. undated fees, advertised dates).
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The official documents we've reviewed are silent, unclear or in conflict on this.
Outdated
Based on a document that has since been superseded.