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Uganda Medical Association is a national professional association with the membership exclusively drawn from duly registered medical practitioners.

  1. The applicant who wish to register with Uganda Medical Association can contact the association at their offices or secretariat at Uganda.
    • Medical Association Secretariat.
    • Plot 2 Kyagwe Road, Kati House, 2nd Floor,
    • P.O. Box 2243, Kampala, Uganda.
  2. A person shall not carry out any medical practice in Uganda unless he or she is registered and approved with Uganda Medical Association for that purpose.
  3. Any person who qualifies to be registered as a medical or dental practitioner may apply to the council for registration, and the council, if satisfied that the applicant is eligible for registration, shall authorise the registrar to enter his or her name on the register.
  4. An application for registration shall be in the prescribed form, and every application shall be accompanied by documentary proof of the qualifications of the applicant together with the prescribed fees.
  5. The registrar shall not register in the medical or dental register the name of any person whose name has been removed from a similar register of any country on grounds of misconduct on the part of that person without the council making further inquiry satisfying itself that the individual should be registered.
  6. After fulfilling the conditions above proceed to pick and fill the Forms A1 to A4 applying to register with Uganda Medical Association
  7. Pay the prescribed fee as prescribed by the council or Medical Authority.
  8. Submit the dully filled in form attached with pay slip and other required documents as prescribed by the medical Council to the Council Officer.
  9. Collect your registration certificate from the medical council where your application was submitted within two days from the date the application was received at Uganda Medical Association in case there is no rejection.
  10. On the registration of a medical or dental practitioner the registrar shall issue to the person registered, sealed with the seal of the council, a certificate of registration in the Forms A1 to A4.
  11. The medical Council may refuse to register the applicant who does not qualify to be registered by reason only that he or she does not have the experience required under section 17(2)may apply to the council for provisional registration.
  12. The Medical Council may reject the application, if it is of the opinion that the council may, after inquiry, cause to be removed from the medical or dental register the name of any registered or provisionally registered person—
    • who is convicted by any court of law of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude;
    • who is found guilty of professional misconduct by the council;
    • Whose name has been removed from the medical or dental practitioners register of any other country or who is suspended from practice.
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Required DocumentsEdit

  • Practitioner license
  • Academic qualification with date of obtaining.
  • licence for private practice
  • Brief report in area of specialization.
  • acquired experience

Office Locations & ContactsEdit

Uganda Medical Association - Head Office,
Plot 2 Kyagwe Road,
Kati House, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 2243,
Kampala, Uganda
P.O. Box 2243,
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 (0)706 744 927
Email: publicity@uma.ug
Website: Link

EligibilityEdit

  1. A person holding any of the following minimum qualifications shall be eligible for registration in the appropriate category to which his or her qualifications relate.
    • a degree of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery or Bachelor of Dental Surgery granted by a university established in Uganda by law;
    • A medical or dental qualification recognized by the council for the purposes of registration.
  2. In addition to the qualifications provided under subsection (1), a person applying for registration shall satisfy the council that he or she has acquired experience by satisfactorily serving a full-time internship in a hospital approved by the council.
  3. In the case of a person holding a qualification other than a qualification obtained from a university established in Uganda by law, the council may accept experience it may consider to be equivalent to the experience specified under subsection (2) if that person produces a certificate of registration which entitled him or her to practise in that country where he or she was registered.
  4. Where a person applying for registration is not a citizen of Uganda and has a qualification obtained from a university established in Uganda by law or any other university approved by the council, that person shall be eligible and shall obtain a temporary registration as may be prescribed by the council.

FeesEdit

Registration fees:100,000 Ugshs

ValidityEdit

Validity 12 months.

Documents to UseEdit

Please attach documents that can be used by people. e.g. links

Sample DocumentsEdit

The Republic of Uganda
Form B.
Registration Certificate for Private Medical Practice.
The Medical and Dental Practitioners Act.

...............................
I certify that the following is a true copy entry in the register of medical and dental practitioners authorised to apply and engage in private practice maintained under section 19(1)(f) of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act.

Registration number
Full name
Address in Uganda
..................... ............ .............
Registered qualification ..............................
date of obtaining and With ............................
institution............................................
Date of registration...................................
Additional qualifications with.........................
date of obtaining......................................
...................................

  • Practitioner licensed to practise independently. *Practitioner licensed to practise under an independently licensed practitioner.
  • Delete as appropriate.

Date Registrar.................................


Processing TimeEdit

Maximum Processing time 1 day.

Related VideosEdit

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites. 	
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

InstructionsEdit

  • Provisional registration shall cease to have effect when a provisionally registered medical or dental practitioner is fully registered.
  • This certificate is issued to all units irrespective of ownership.
  • It is issued to all governmental and local authority health units once at the beginning of operation of the health unit. Under this arrangement registration fees are waived.
  • It is issued once to hospitals operated by NGOs at the payment of initial fees determined by the council.
  • This licence is issued annually to all other categories of health units and is renewable on satisfaction of medical standards and payment of registration fees.
  • This permit can be withdrawn at any time if the council is convinced the unit has inappropriate medical standards and presents danger to the users.


Required InformationEdit

  • Full name
  • Address
  • Registered qualification with date obtained, institution.
  • Where qualification obtained and its address/country.
  • Date of registration
  • Name of health unit
  • Category of health unit
  • Supervising Doctors.


Need for the DocumentEdit

Please provide the need for the procedure. e.g. Birth Certificate - why do we need to have a birth certificate?

Information which might helpEdit

  • The Uganda Medical Association is a family of over 6000 doctors in Uganda and affiliated to Uganda.

Membership Benefits

  1. Access to a variety of Continuous Professional Development Programs
  2. Representation to statutory and other bodies
  3. Access to affordable financial facilities
  4. Group indemnity insurance for medical practioners
  5. Public and private sector labour relations advice
  6. Legal aid clinic for doctors
  7. Joint investment opportunities for doctors
  8. Free access to the Uganda Medical Journal
  9. Free access to the UMA Newsletter

Other uses of the Document/CertificateEdit

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External LinksEdit

OthersEdit

More information which might help people.


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