The Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons is a public institution that was established in 2003 to provide post-graduate medical training in medicine, surgery and related disciplines.

Several factors influenced the establishment of the College including:

• frustration on the part of the government on the returns on investment put in the West African Postgraduate Medical College.
• high attrition rate of medical practitioners given sponsorship for postgraduate professional training abroad.
• a strong desire to stem the brain-drain by establishing a local national postgraduate training institution.

The efforts of Ministers for Health, Health professionals and the Ghana Medical Association accumulated in the

setting up of a Task Force chaired by Professor George W. Brobby to make recommendations for the establishment of the National Postgraduate Medical College in 2000.