The Medical Council of Jamaica is the licensing body for
doctor
Doctor, Doctors, The Doctor or The Doctors may refer to:
Titles and occupations
* Physician, a medical practitioner
* Doctor (title), an academic title for the holder of a doctoral-level degree
** Doctorate
** List of doctoral degrees awarded b ...
s in
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
.
Doctors in Jamaica are required to take
continuing medical education
Continuing medical education (CME) is continuing education (CE) that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications ...
courses to keep their licences.
In 2004, amendments to the country's ''Medical Act (Jamaica)'' increased the number of non-doctors on the council.
The Medical Council's chairman is Dr
John Hall, a consultant
neurologist
Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...
and former chairman of the department of medicine at the
Kingston Public Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica.
The
Medical Association of Jamaica, a different organisation, is the voluntary professional and advocacy body for doctors in Jamaica.
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Medical associations based in Jamaica
Medical and health regulators
Regulation in Jamaica