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…
NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed immediate suspension of 26 MBBS students found complicit in NEET-UG 2024 malpractices while admission of 14 students for academic year 2024-25 has been cancelled for adopting unfair means for the entrance exam. The action by NMC comes ahead of the NEET-UG 2025 exam scheduled for Sunday.Sources…
The National Medical Commission has mandated Aadhaar-based facial authentication for accurately marking the attendance of faculty members. The new mode of recognition will come into effect from May 1, 2025. NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission has mandated Aadhaar-based facial authentication for accurately marking the attendance of faculty members. The new mode of recognition will…
NEW DELHI: The functioning of the National Medical Commission seems to be in “total disarray” with the health ministry failing to fill 19 of the 20 posts in the four autonomous boards of the commission that regulate undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, recognition of medical colleges, and registration and regulation of doctors. Half the posts…
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has commenced the public theory examinations for Class 10 and 12 for the April 2025 session. The exams will be held in the afternoon shift from April 1 to May 19, 2025, across various centres in India and overseas. While the examination in Indian centres will begin at…
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has published the provisional seat count for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) medical courses, including broad and super speciality programmes, for the academic year 2024-25. The data has been made available on the official NMC website for stakeholder review.The NMC has directed all affiliated medical colleges and institutions to thoroughly…
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…
Private medical colleges are saving crores of rupees by either not paying stipends to MBBS interns and resident doctors or paying them a fraction of what government medical colleges pay. According to the National Medical Commission (NMC), the data on stipend payment submitted by colleges showed that 60 (33 govt colleges and 27 private ones)…
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,…
राष्ट्रीय पात्रता सह प्रवेश परीक्षा (NEET UG 2025) को लेकर लंबे समय से बनी शंकाओं और भ्रांतियों को अब राष्ट्रीय चिकित्सा आयोग (NMC) ने पूरी तरह से दूर कर दिया है. राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विद्यालयी शिक्षा संस्थान (NIOS) से पढ़ाई करने वाले छात्र भी अब NEET UG 2025 के लिए आवेदन कर सकते हैं. RTI के…