Sudan National Council for Medical Specializations
The Sudan National Council for Medical Specializations is an independent body accountable to the President of the Republic for the performance of its duties and the implementation of its competencies stipulated in its founding law, and it is the body entrusted with regulating specialist training for doctors in Sudan and granting specialist certificates. The Council was established in March 1994, held its first session in April 1995, and its headquarters is located on the southern side of Khartoum Teaching Hospital in Khartoum.
The Council aims to improve medical services and raise their standard by qualifying doctors and training them in various medical and health specializations, in cooperation with the existing educational and health institutions, and setting bases for evaluating the scientific and professional level of the certificates it grants. Its competencies include setting curricula for training doctors in the various branches of medicine and reviewing them to keep pace with medical progress, providing the requirements of continuing medical education, defining specialist certificates and classifying them and the conditions for granting them, forming specialist councils for each specialization, and granting certificates after their approval by those councils.
The Council's structure consists of an executive office, an advisory council, specialist councils and a general secretariat, and it is headed by a president appointed by the President of the Republic, and it includes in its membership representatives of the Ministry of Health, faculties of medicine, the National Council for Higher Education, the Sudan Medical Council, the Armed Forces Medical Corps, the Police, specialist associations and the Sudanese Medical Association. Each of the specialist councils works for four years, renewable, and sets curricula and conditions for the admission of doctors and the accreditation of hospitals and training centres, and organizes examinations and approves their results.
The Council grants its certificates in specializations including internal medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, family and community medicine, chest diseases, dermatology, ophthalmology, ear, nose and throat surgery, and psychiatric and neurological diseases. Training takes place in accredited centres and hospitals, and the path consists of a Part One examination, then practical training for two years to obtain membership or three years to obtain fellowship, followed by the Part Two examination, and fellowship requires the preparation of a thesis on a topic in the specialization. According to statements by its Secretary General, Dr Al-Mughira Al-Amin Jad Al-Sayed, in October 2026, the Council has graduated more than 3,700 specialists, and has resumed its examinations from its headquarters in Khartoum.
(Sources: Sudanese Digital Encyclopedia via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Al-Ahd Online and Sudan Now, October 2026)
— Editorial Team
