THE (NMC) SHOULD BE TRANSPARENT IN CLARIFYING VARSITIES AND DEGREES ALIGNED WITH ITS GUIDELINES, HOWEVER THERE IS A PARTIAL CLARITY, CONFUSION PREVAILS.

Parents are worried about the education of their child and sending their children to abroad for attaining various qualifications like MBBS etc without going into the advisory by (NMC) . The advisory comes as several students, their parents and academicians express concern over the foreign universities manipulation of the guidelines to suit the rules of the NMC while admitting the students. The advisory is urging the students to be cautious while picking a country or university for studying MBBS abroad and the advisory asks the students to be vigilant in ensuring that the university where opting is fulfilling the foreign medical graduate licensing regulations 2021 . A student studying medicine abroad will be disqualified from writing NExT exam after his return to India if the university is not fulfilling conditions of 2021 . As per the guidelines the entire medical course should be completed with in ten years. This should include UG, internship, registration to practice, NExT l, one year internship and NExT 11.This is a serious condition and situation arosen with confusion for almost 20000 medical aspirants who are aspiring to pursue medicine from abroad. NMC recently introduced a competence based medical curriculum (CBMC)for medical education in India and the commission needs to clarify if this CBMC is required for the foreign universities also which as of now almost no country is fulfilling. NMC should be transparent in clarifying the foreign universities and degrees that are aligned with its guidelines. The Ministry of the external affairs needs to cross verify the information and keep a check on the ongoing authority.