The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has ordered that all Medical Doctors, Dentists, and Dental Surgeons practicing in Ghana to effect changes in their name tags as of January 1, 2024.
The GMA directed doctors and other medical personnel to ensure that extra academic titles are prefixed on their name tags.
GMA feels that this will assist the Association in improving patient rights and patient safety as it strives to provide better healthcare.
According to GMA, the instruction resulted from the GMA’s 65th Annual General Meeting in Takoradi in November 2023.
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“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 practicing 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 its statement.
GMA encouraged 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 asked the media to take note of the new designations and correctly refer to the physicians.
“We implore the media and the public to take note of the new designations and refer to Medical Doctors and Dentists as such.”
