New Delhi: Amid a shortage of medical faculty in medical colleges, the National Medical Commission (NMC) plans to fill the vacant positions with retired doctors from the army and railways. This move by India’s apex medical education regulator comes in the backdrop of Economic Survey highlighting faculty shortages, which are affecting the quality of medical…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Punjab government‘s appeal against a high court ruling quashing its decision to expand the definition of the “NRI quota” for admissions in medical and dental courses. The apex court criticised the move, stating, “This fraud must come to an end.” Earlier on September 10, the Punjab…
A hospital in Alluri Sitarama Raju district, Andhra Pradesh. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic behind us (though the World Health Organization warns that the virus has still not vanished), the Union Budget expectedly shifted focus to levers of economic growth such as infrastructure and employment. It was…
NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued a cautionary statement regarding recent reports circulating in both print and electronic media platforms. These reports purportedly pertain to the establishment of new medical colleges and the allocation of undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) seats in various medical courses for the academic year 2024-25.The NMC has…
After the Parliamentary Standing Committee report published in February 2024 that highlighted severe faculty shortages in medical colleges across the country, several medical associations have highlighted the problems arising in medical colleges due to a lack of faculty. As per the Ministry of Health, the recommended teacher-student ratio must be 1:2 or 1:3, but the…
The National Medical Commission (NMC) is focusing on improving the quality of medical education by increasing the number of medical colleges and reducing the batch size for a better teacher-student ratio. In the new medical colleges, the seats can be from 50 to 150 in an MBBS batch. The revised regulation under the Under Graduate…
NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at improving the quality of medical education in India, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has implemented new regulations capping the intake of MBBS students in recently established medical colleges. These regulations, outlined in the Under Graduate Minimum Standards Regulations (UG-MSR) 2023, limit the batch size to a maximum of…
To improve the medical education system and uplift the standard of hospitals, the National Medical Council (NMC) has asked all the government and private medical institutions to follow the “minimum standard of requirements” for postgraduate courses (PGMSR, 2023). A notice was issued by the Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), NMC to control the irregularities in…
To improve the medical education system and uplift the standard of hospitals, the National Medical Council (NMC) has asked all the government and private medical institutions to follow the “minimum standard of requirements” for postgraduate courses (PGMSR, 2023). A notice was issued by the Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), NMC to control the irregularities in…
New Delhi: Medical education regulator – National Medical Commission – has for the first time launched post-doctoral fellowship courses in medical colleges regulated by it, to promote research and clinical skill development. Medical institutions till now were creating and approving these programmes at their own level to train doctors. The regulator recently notified “Post-Graduate Medical…
