Aditi tandon
Tribune news service
New Delhi, September 24
India’s new medical education regulator, the National Medical Commission (NMC), takes effect from tomorrow and the Center today abolishes the 87-year-old Medical Council of India, which was marred by corruption in its last years.
The Center notified the 33-member NMC late Thursday, saying it will go into effect on Sept. 25. With the notification, the MCI board of governors is dissolved. The board was appointed four years ago to manage the affairs of MCI, while the council was dissolved in 2010. Today, the MCI has been abolished.
NEW GUIDELINES
- MBBS final year exam to serve as entrance test for foreign medical graduates and graduates
- The NMC will develop guidelines for a new group of non-MBBS mid-level healthcare providers, such as nurses and pharmacists with limited rights to dispense drugs.
- PGI’s Jagat Ram is among 11 full-time NMC members
The notification appoints Suresh Chandra Sharma, ENT HoD, AIIMS, New Delhi, as chair of the NMC, which will have four autonomous boards to regulate undergraduate, graduate, medical evaluation and ethics and medical record.
The development means that as of tomorrow, all the provisions of the 2019 NMC Law will be implemented, including the regulation of fees on 50 percent seats in private medical colleges and universities considered; end of inspection for university renovations. The MBBS final year exam will now serve three purposes: licensing exam for MBBS passers-by to grant them a license to practice medicine; entrance examination for graduate medical education and entrance examination for foreign medical graduates. Called the National Exit Test, this senior MBBS exam will finally replace the existing National Eligibility and Entry Test (NEET) for PG and the Foreign Medical Graduate Test.
