The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has directed all practicing Medical Doctors, Dentists, and Dental Surgeons in Ghana to effect changes in their name tags, effective January 1, 2024.
The GMA instructed doctors and other professionals in the medical field to ensure additional academic titles are prefixed on their name tags.
According to GMA, this when done this will help improve patients’ rights and patient safety in the association’s quest to deliver quality healthcare.
The GMA in a statement issued on Wednesday, January 3, 2024, said this new development was reached at the Association’s 65th Annual General Meeting held in Takoradi in November 2023.
“Medical Doctors and Dentists with additional academic titles will prefix these titles with their academic titles as appropriate. For example, Medical Doctors or Dentists with a professorial rank appointment and/or a PhD qualification may be designated Prof. Dr. (Med), Prof. Dr. Dr. (Med), Dr. Dr. (Med), Prof. Dr. (Dent), Prof. Dr. Dr. (Dent) or Dr. Dr. (Dent) as may apply. All Medical Doctors and Dentists/Dental Surgeons practicing in Ghana are therefore to take note and change their name tags, practitioner stamps and other relevant materials to reflect the change,” the statement emphasized.
Read full statement below:
