The Dominican College of Surgeons (CDC) has notified the Ministry of Public Health as well as the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and clinics about verified irregularities committed by local and foreign doctors in a range of medical fields. The CDC said that some doctors present themselves as specialists in a particular field without having fulfilled the required residences.
The directors pointed out that foreign medical specialists also come to the country and begin working as specialists, without fulfilling the requisites or validating their medical degrees at a Dominican university, which they would not dare to do in other countries.
The surgeons believe that foreign doctors who come to the country should be under a particular obligation to perform medical internships, because they need to learn about national idiosyncrasies, local commercial names of medicines and the quirks of the Dominican health system.

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