ABOUT MDCN
The Medical and Dental professions in Nigeria are regulated by the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act Cap 221 Laws of Federation of Nigeria 1990 which sets up the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria with the following responsibilities:
a. determining the standards of knowledge and skill to be attained by persons seeking to become members of the medical or dental profession and reviewing those standards from time to time as circumstances may permit.
b. securing in accordance with provisions of this Law the establishment and maintenance of registers of persons entitled to practise as members of the medical or dental profession and the publication from time to time of lists of those persons;
c. reviewing and preparing from time to time, a statement as to the fcode of conduct which the Council considers desirable for the practice of the professions in Nigeria; and
d. performing the other functions conferred on the Council by this Law.
By provision (c) above, the Council is empowered to make Rules for professional conduct and is also empowered to establish the Medical and Dental practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and Medical Practitioners Investigating Panel for the enforcement of these Rules of Conduct.
These Rules of conduct are made to enable doctors and dentists in Nigeria maintain universally acceptable professional standards of practice and conduct. They serve as standards in relationship of medical and dental practitioners with the profession, their colleagues, patients, members of allied professions and the public.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
All registered doctors and dental surgeons shall, in all areas of their professional conduct, practice and comportment, in professional and other relationships with their patients and other persons, be guided and bound by the rules contained in these codes. Any registered practitioner who, after the investigation and trial during which he is given every opportunity to defend his actions and conduct, is found to have contravened these rules by the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria shall be guilty of professional misconduct.
The Council may impose penalties for the infringement of these desirable standards or for any form of infamous conduct in any of the following ways:
admonishing the practitioners;
suspending the practitioner from practice as a medical practititoner or dental surgeon for a period not exceeding six months;
striking the practitioner's name off the relevant register.
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has its offices located in the following cities: | 
