The Rwanda Medical and Dental Council (RMDC) wishes to bring to the attention of all Medical Doctors and Heads of public and private Health Facilities and health-related NGOs that from February 1st to June 30th, 2024 ; the RMDC Secretariat will be ready to receive applications for Annual License for the fiscal year July 2024-June 2025.

The Bureau of National Council Board in its meeting of January 15th, 2024 resolved that Medical Doctors are mandatorily requested to submit evidence required 50 CPD credits while apply for license renewal.

All medical Doctors are encouraged to use the RMDC online services while applying for license renewal available at www.rmdc.rw by uploading the following documents as attachments :

• Evidence of 50 CPD credits
• Current License to practice
• Evidence of payment of annual license application fees (Bank Slip)

Effective July 1, 2024 any Doctor without the valid Annual License or any person employing such a Doctor, will be contravening the Law No 44/2012 of 14/01/2013, especially in its article 32 stating that “any medical doctor or dental surgeon who practices his/her profession without being licensed shall be brought before the competent courts of law. The provisions of paragraph one of this article shall apply also to any employer of a medical doctor or a dentist referred to in that Paragraph”.

In addition, the Registration and Licensing policy states that “Rwanda Medical and Dental Council has mandate to ensure Medical Doctor who makes decision that affect directly or indirectly the Rwandan population has adequate knowledge and is updating it. Doctors in national programs who do supervisions, trainings, establish guidelines have to be registered and licensed with the Rwanda Medical and Dental Council and show evidence of updating their knowledge”.

Dr. SEBAGANJI Marc
Registrar & CEO