Med degrees from many countries to be inconsequential after NMC's rule

| Published on: Sep 21, 2023 Views: 123

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has released an alert notifying MBBS students studying abroad that it will not accept the internship completed in many foreign medical colleges. As per the new notification, the student must finish the in- ternship separately after the completion of the MBBS course and it should not be included in the cour se. This notification has put the future of thousands of medical students at stake.
"The alert clarifies that integrated internship in- cluded within the under- graduate medical course of foreign universities is not valid and the internship is acceptable by NMC only when it is pursued after the completion of their MBBS course," says Anuj Goyal, career counsellor, Get My University "This will make medical education from many Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) irrelevant in India. Medical universities in most of the CIS countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekis tan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia have claimed that their six-year programme will include internship. With this fresh NMC update, the internship awarded by the- se countries will not be accepted as a clinical internship. As these countries do not follow any structure of internship after course completion, the student will have to undergo a spe- cialised residency programme," he adds. This will also increase the dura- tion of medical education in these countries, further in- validating the course.

Published on - Times of India

Date - 18/09/2023