National Medical Commission

Subject : Polity

Section: msc

Concept :

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has relaxed its norms for a year, allowing foreign medical graduates who have passed their screening test to intern at non-teaching hospitals.
The allotment of FMGs in these non-teaching hospitals shall also be done through concerned state medical councils
The “clarification” issued by the National Medical Commission on Wednesday states that the two-year internship will be applicable only to candidates who came back to India during their final year and completed their education online because of the Covid-19 pandemic or the Russia-Ukraine war.

About National Medical Commission

The government dissolved the MCI in 2018 and replaced it with a Board of Governors (BoG), which was chaired by a member of NITI Aayog.
Now, the IMC Act, 1956 stands repealed after the gazette notification, and has been replaced by The National Medical Commission Act that came into existence on 8th August 2019.
The change is aimed at bringing in reforms in the medical education sector and especially aimed at replacing the MCI, which was tainted by corruption and other problems.
The NMC will function as the country’s top regulator of medical education.
It will have four separate autonomous boards for:
- Undergraduate medical education.
- Postgraduate medical education.
- Medical assessment and rating.
- Ethics and medical registration.
The common final year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) examination will now be known as the National Exit Test (NEXT), according to the new medical education structure under the NMC.
NEXT will act as licentiate examination to practice medicine, the criteria for admission to postgraduate medical courses, and also for screening of foreign medical graduates.
Besides, the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), NEXT will also be applicable to institutes of national importance such as all the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in a bid to ensure a common standard in the medical education sector in the country.
NEET is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).