Nigerian-born doctor added watching medical dramas to CV as he applied to work in the UK

A DOCTOR backed his application to be allowed to practise in the UK by saying he often watches medical dramas on telly.

Nigerian-born Dr Wilson Odume wrote: “I never miss medical programmes on BBC and other stations, for example Casualty, Scrubs and others.

“These also help keep me in-line with things happening in the medical world.”

Dr Odume trained after coming to Britain in 2001. He has had six clinical attachments in Leicester.

But he was refused registration by the General Medical Council in 2013 for concealing ten minor ­driving offences.

An appeal hearing in Manchester yesterday was told he had three failures before passing tests for ­foreign doctors, and that eventual pass had now expired.

The panel said mention of the TV shows was “worrying” and “displays a very concerning lack of insight”. He admitted: “To have even mentioned this was a nonsense, and frankly rather light-hearted. It did not reflect my real thinking. It was a silly thing to put.”

He also claimed to have attempted to “understand UK culture” further and had taken a course in ethics.

The tribunal was told Dr Odume had “demonstrated considerable tenacity” in trying to provide evidence he was fit to practise the “profession he loves”.

Judgment was reserved with a decision due in four weeks.