National Medical Commission (NMC) has yet again issued a public notice threatening to take action against medical colleges that do not pay stipends to interns and resident doctors.With no evidence of any action being taken after similar threats in 2023 and 2024, it remains to be seen whether change in chairman of the commission leads…
Another doctor’s day comes by and we still do not have an updated medical registry where one can check the credentials of any doctor in India. After the spate of reports on fake doctors and those practicing without the requisite qualification or training, hospitals are struggling to verify the credentials of those they hire in…
With the draft amendment bill of the NMC Act, which includes a provision allowing patients to appeal before the ethics board of the commission, in limbo since December 2022, the commission is repeatedly rejecting appeals filed by patients.In the latest rejection of a patient’s appeal on June 11, the section officer of the Ethics Section…
Despite the National Medical Commission (NMC) deciding in September last year that not only doctors, but patients too can appeal to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) against decisions of state medical councils, on February 21 the EMRB rejected the appeal of a patient from Punjab.Incidentally, the EMRB is totally vacant since the tenure…
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued a clarification regarding the eligibility of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) students for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate 2025. The clarification follows concerns over discrepancies between the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) NEET-UG Bulletin 2025 and NMC regulations.Responding to an RTI application dated February 11,…
Three autonomous bodies that regulate personnel in the medical field — doctors, dentists and nurses — are all in a dysfunctional state, the response to a right to information query has revealed.The health ministry’s response to the query confirmed that the four autonomous boards of the National Medical Commission that deal with undergraduate education, postgraduate…
In a victory for patients’ rights, the National Medical Commission has decided that it will take up appeals of patients in cases against doctors. For almost five years, since the NMC was constituted in Sept 2020, it has been rejecting patients’ appeals stating that only doctors have the right to appeal against decisions of state…
In a victory for patients’ rights, the National Medical Commission has decided that it will take up appeals of patients in cases against doctors. For almost five years, since the NMC was constituted in September 2020, it has been rejecting patients’ appeals stating that only doctors have the right to appeal against decisions of state…
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has relaxed certain norms for teachers’ eligibility in medical colleges. In its recent draft, “Teachers Eligibility Qualifications (TEQ) in Medical Institutions Regulations”, it has proposed that non-teaching consultants, specialists, and medical officers with a postgraduate medical degree and at least four years of experience in a minimum 220-bedded teaching or…
MUMBAI: Students with a 15 percentile in NEET-PG in 2024 can also secure seats in the ongoing postgraduate medical admission process. The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) under the Directorate General of Health Services issued a circular on Saturday lowering the eligibility score for general and EWS category students to 15 percentile. For students from the…