Haruna Iddrisu Urges Reform of Medical Training, Citing Legal Education as Model
Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has called for a major overhaul of Ghana’s medical education system to expand access for a larger pool of students, pointing to recent reforms in legal education as a model worth replicating.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Series press briefing on Monday, July 20, Iddrisu said the measures introduced under the Legal Education Act, 2026, could serve as a blueprint for reforming other professional fields, particularly medical training.
The Legal Education Act, 2026, expands access to legal training by abolishing the Ghana School of Law entrance examination, long considered a major obstacle for aspiring lawyers, and broadening the role of accredited universities in delivering professional legal education, opening the pathway to more qualified students beyond the traditional route.
According to Iddrisu, these reforms have helped “demystify” legal education in Ghana and should inspire a similar push in the medical field. “It will be to President Mahama’s legacy that we have demystified legal education in Ghana. Very soon there will be lawyers all over the country thanks to our revised policy,” he said.
The Minister argued that expanding access to professional programmes like medicine is essential to creating more opportunities for young Ghanaians and strengthening the country’s human resource base. “It is my desire that we do the same for medical education so that medical education is increasingly made available to many more Ghanaian students. So the same revolution accompanying legal education will soon be ignited in the area of medical education,” he stated.
