The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has instructed all medical doctors, dentists, and dental surgeons practising in Ghana to effect changes in their name tags, effective January 1, 2024.
According to GMA, the directive was borne out of GMA’s 65th Annual General Meeting resolution in Takoradi in November 2023.
The GMA said all doctors and other professionals in the medical field must ensure that additional academic titles are prefixed on their name tags.
GMA believes this will help the association improve patients’ rights and safety in its quest to deliver quality healthcare.
“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 practising in Ghana are, therefore, to take note and change their name tags, practitioner stamps and other relevant materials to reflect the change,” GMA said in a press statement.
GMA advised its members to “wear their name tags at all times at work to ensure clear and easy identification in the interest of patient and public safety”.
The Ghana Medical Association also urged the media to take note of the new designations and refer to the doctors appropriately.
Read the full statement below;