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Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing

No impairment found

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What does “no impairment found” mean?

The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.

Concerning Mahdi Aljallabi, doctor (General Medical Council 7872380).

Decision date: 6 June 2025 · Hearing started 6 June 2025

In plain English

The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Mahdi Aljallabi. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.

Charges

The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Aljallabi qualified in 2006 from the University of Bahri College of Medicine and Health Science, Sudan. He held various medical posts in Sudan from 2007 to December 2012 and commenced a post as a General Practitioner in the United Arab Emirates (‘UAE’) from December 2012. Dr Aljallabi then practised as an Internal Medicine Specialist at the University Hospital Sharjah, UAE. 4. On 9 May 2024 a MPTS Tribunal (the 2024 Tribunal) considered the case of Dr Aljallabi. He admitted the following misconduct: between 8 April 2022 and 28 July 2022 he submitted an article which contained plagiarised material, and in which he was cited as an author, to the International Journal of Health Sciences; on or around 1 September 2022, Dr Aljallabi submitted an online application form to Health Education England (‘HEE') for Speciality Training Year 4 in which he provided details of the article in support and made certain declarations. He accepted that knew that the article contained Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr ALJALLABI 3 plagiarised material and that the declarations he made were untrue and that he was dishonest in both submitting the plagiarised article and the application form. 5. The 2024 Tribunal determined that Dr Aljallabi’s conduct was serious, that his actions had brought the medical profession into disrepute, and that he had breached fundamental tenets of Good Medical Practice (2013), namely probity and integrity. The Tribunal determined that Dr Aljallabi’s dishonest actions amounted to misconduct that was serious, both when considered individually and cumulatively. The 2024 Tribunal went on to decide that Dr Aljallabi’s fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. It decided to impose a period of suspension on Dr...

Findings

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Mahdi Aljallabi. The detail page records impairment as not impaired and the tribunal found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired.

Source

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