Nigeria’s healthcare sector is facing mounting pressure as the number of medical students graduated annually rise, while housemanship induction has remained a nightmare for many as universities violate the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) quotas rule.
For thousands of medical graduates, the journey to becoming licensed doctors has become an increasingly uncertain and frustrating ordeal.
Nubi Achebo, director of academic planning at Nigerian University of Technology and Management (NUTM), described the systemic failures as delaying careers, worsening workforce shortages, and exposing deep cracks in Nigeria’s medical education and licensing system.
“MDCN sets quotas based on teaching hospitals, lecturers, labs, beds, and supervision capacity. The idea is to protect quality. If you train 250 doctors with resources for 150, clinical rotations get crowded, supervision drops, and you risk producing doctors who haven’t seen enough cases.
“Admitting beyond quota brings more tuition, meets political pressure, and ‘hopes some will fail’, and
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