The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria is a parastatal of the Federal Government Ministry of Health, charged with the responsibility of postgraduate training of medical and dental doctors in Nigeria.

Success in the part 2 examination leads to the award of the Fellow of the Medical College (FMC).

It insinuated that such premature dissolution of the council will encourage quackery and malpractice in the health sector.

Meanwhile, such narratives are beginning to change since the recent introduction of the British model of postgraduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Clinical Sciences.

The MD, an optional qualification equivalent to the PhD, is statutorily a pre-part 2 (fellowship) degree.