{"id":1087,"date":"2022-01-10T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.mlscn.gov.ng\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:06:41","slug":"mlscn-new-practitioner-registration-licensure-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/mlscn-new-practitioner-registration-licensure-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"MLSCN New Practitioner Registration &#038; Licensure Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is to notify all Medical Laboratory Science practitioners that the MLSCN new practitioner Registration &amp; Licensure portal is now live and would be used for the billing &amp; issuance of practitioner licenses beginning from January 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new practitioner portal hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.mlscn.gov.ng\">http:\/\/portal.mlscn.gov.ng<\/a> which has been designed to ease the burden practitioners face in the payment for, and issuance of their practising license is laced with a number of features to technologically place the Medical Laboratory Science profession in greater light within &amp; outside Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the notable features of the portal include \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Self-Registration of practitioners who have licences for the previous year<\/li><li>Licenses will now bear passport photographs of practitioners<\/li><li>A compendium of security features scattered all over the license<\/li><li>MLSCN e-bulletin is accessible on the portal<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>User Account <strong>Registration Process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only practitioners who have licence for the previous year can register in the portal. To register, practitioners will be required to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Access the portal at <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.mlscn.gov.ng\">https:\/\/portal.mlscn.gov.ng<\/a> and click on the Register button.<\/li><li>Provide your registration number in the format (RA12345) for verification across the MLSCN up-to-date practitioner list. Where a match is found, registration will continue with the registration form being pre-populated with practitioner name from the up-to-date list.<\/li><li>Complete and submit the registration.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On successful registration, the practitioner will be logged into the system to provide or complete his\/ her practitioner details including contact information, education information etc, all of which will be subjected to internal verification process. Practitioners are also expected to upload amongst others a recent copy of their passport photograph, which is a compulsory requirement to be issued a license on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Specification for the passport are &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The uploaded passport will appear on your license and should be of good quality.<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The passport must be preferably on white background<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Uploaded passport must be within the following dimensions 150px &#8211; 300px for width and 150px &#8211; 300px for height.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also important to note that most information sections can only be entered once and won\u2019t be available for edit after the MLSCN internal verification process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Invoicing &amp; Licensing process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On successful completion of the requisite practitioner information forms, MLSCN will proceed to validate entries. Practitioners can thereafter proceed to generate and pay for their Annual Practising Fees, Bulletin &amp; CPD Penalty as applicable on the remita payment page, as previously done.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Evidence of Payments with scanned copies of obtained cpd credits should be forwarded to council via mail to <a href=\"mailto:helpdesk.mlscn@gmail.com\">helpdesk.mlscn@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MLSCN will review the payments made and where satisfied approve the issuance of the license. Practitioners can then access a temporary license (valid for 1 month from date of issuance) for their use within 72 hours of receipt of their evidence of payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Note that only practitioners who have uploaded their passports can access &amp; have their licences issued.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MLSCN will thereafter print &amp; make the valid licenses duly signed by the Registrar available for pickup or posting via surface mail to the practitioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Security features on the License<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As stated earlier in this document, the MLSCN new license is fitted with lots of security features to checkmate forgery and counterfeiting. Practitioners are strongly advised to desist from faking &amp; counterfeiting of licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is to notify all Medical Laboratory Science practitioners that the MLSCN new practitioner Registration &amp; Licensure portal is now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}