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Health ministry asks NMC to waive fees for mock NExT to be held on July 28

Deliberations have begun at the National Medical Commission (NMC) after the Union health ministry asked it to consider waiving the fees for the mock National Exit Test (NExT) to be held on July 28 for the 2019 batch of final-year MBBS students across the country. The NExT, scheduled for July 28, will be conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. According to a notification issued by the premier medical institute last week, "General" category and OBC candidates will have to pay Rs 2,000 each to appear in the mock test, while an SC, ST or EWS applicant will have to pay Rs 1,000. Persons with benchmark disabilities will not have to pay any fee to appear in the examination. The AIIMS, Delhi has been entrusted with the job of conducting the mock test. It will be a computer-based examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, sources said. The aim of conducting the mock test is to familiarise the prospective candidates with the computer-based test, ..

Mock National Exit Test for final-year MBBS students to be held on July 28

The AIIMS Delhi will conduct a mock National Exit Test (NExT) for the 2019 batch of final-year MBBS students on July 28. According to a notification issued by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), General/OBC candidates will have to pay Rs 2,000 each to appear in the mock test, while SC/ST/EWS applicant will have to pay Rs 1,000. Persons with benchmark disabilities will not have to pay any fee to appear in the examination. The AIIMS Delhi has been entrusted with the job of conducting the mock test. It will be a computer-based examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, sources said. The aim of conducting such a mock test is to familiarise the prospective candidates with the computer-based test, software interface and process flow in the examination centre. The National Exit Test (NExT) will be held next year for the 2019 batch of final-year MBBS students in two phases -- NExT Step 1 and NExT Step 2. The NExT Step 1 for final-year batch is likely to be hel

GMER-23 decoded: What's new on the syllabus for MBBS? Check details

Medical students shall have a variety of choice-based credit courses of limited duration offered in addition to the NMC curriculum

SC asks NMC to set up panel to examine modes of disability assessment

The Supreme Court has directed the National Medical Council to set up a panel of domain experts to examine a plea for evolving modes of disability assessment of students having mental illnesses, special learning disorder (SLD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for granting quota in admission to MBBS course. The top court's direction came on a petition by Vishal Gupta who was denied reservation in admission to MBBS course under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act on the ground that his mental disability was 55 per cent rendering him ineligible for securing admission in a medical college. Under the Act, if the certifying authority certifies that the disability of a person is not less than 40 per cent then he or she is said to have the benchmark disability, and in that condition, the candidate cannot get the benefit of reservation in admission. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala took note of the submissions of lawyer

Ayurveda, Allopathy doctors not performing same work to get equal pay: SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that practitioners of alternative systems of medicine such as Ayurveda are not entitled to equal pay with allopathic doctors as they not are involved in performing emergency duties and complicated surgeries. Setting aside a Gujarat High Court order, the top court said the emergency duty that allopathy doctors are capable of performing and the trauma care that they are able to provide cannot be performed by Ayurveda practitioners. It noted that even post-mortem or autopsy is not carried out by Ayurveda practitioners. The apex court was hearing a batch of appeals challenging a 2012 Gujarat High Court order which had held that Ayurveda practitioners are entitled to be treated at par with doctors with MBBS degrees. While recognising the importance of Ayurveda practitioners and the need to promote alternative or indigenous systems of medicine, the top court said that it cannot be oblivious of the fact that both categories of doctors are certainly not

Clear final MBBS exam in 2 attempts: SC to foreign return medical students

The exams will be in accordance with the existing National Medical Council (NMC) syllabus and guidelines

ED raids 9 places in Kashmir in connection with MBBS seats allotment racket

Sleuths of ED started raids at the places, including three in Srinagar district in connection with the allotment of MBBS seats to residents of J&K in different colleges in Pakistan

Delhi HC asks Centre to take decision on filling up MBBS seats for PWDs

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to take a policy decision on a representation to fill up the vacant seats reserved in medical colleges for those suffering from benchmark disability by taking in candidates who fall short of the threshold but are persons with disabilities (PWD). A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma also asked the Centre to respond to a petition filed by an MBBS aspirant having less than benchmark disability who sought admission in a medical college against one of the unfilled seats reserved for PWD. The petitioner, who has a permanent locomotor disability, scored 96.06 percentile in NEET-UG 2022 and was found to be short of the 40 per cent threshold prescribed for a benchmark disability a precondition for claiming reservation in education. The petitioner said it will be unfair to grant a seat earmarked for candidates with benchmark disabilities to a candidate without any disability by converting them into general category seats. UOI

Govt working to level number of medical UG, PG seats in 4 yrs: Health min

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said the government was working to equal the number of undergraduate and postgraduate medical seats within four years so that all MBBS graduates can pursue PG courses. Speaking at the 11th annual conference of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian origin (GAPIO) here, he also invited healthcare professionals from the Indian diaspora to invest in research and open hospital chains in the country with "assured business." More than 70 countries will sign hospital-to-hospital, country-to-country and country-to-hospital MoUs at the 'Heal In India, Heal By India' expo to be held in April-May this year, he said. "When we open a dispensary, we also need doctors. Eight years ago, India had 51,000 MBBS seats. Today, we have 1,00,226 under-graduate seats, and post-graduate seats grew from 34,000 to 64,000," the minister said. "We have set a target to make the number of MBBS UG and PG seats equal so that all our doctors get the ...

Government extends MBBS internship cut-off date to June 30: Report

Presently, the cut-off date for aspirants to complete their mandatory one-year internship is March 31, 2023

MBBS seats increased by 87%, PG by 105% during NDA rule: Mansukh Mandaviya

The number of MBBS seats has increased by 87 per cent and that of PG by 105 per cent in the last eight years, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday. While interacting with reporters outside Parliament, Mandaviya emphasised that since 2014, several steps have been taken to ease access to quality education in the country for the younger generation. He underlined the impact of several initiatives taken under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime and said, change can be seen happening at every nook and corner of the country. With this momentum and coordination among stakeholders, a holistic ecosystem of education will be created in the country. Highlighting the change in the medical education sector, Mandaviya said, "While India had a limited number of 387 medical colleges in 2014, the system was riddled with far too many problems." "There is a paradigm shift from input-based to outcome-based approaches and reforms under the Modi government. Consequentially,

BJP pushes MBBS in Hindi; Madhya Pradesh Congress questions timing of move

The Congress has questioned the timing of the project as the assembly elections in the state are scheduled in November-December 2023

Will bring big positive change: PM after Shah releases Hindi MBBS textbooks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the beginning of the initiative of the Madhya Pradesh government to impart medical education in Hindi and said this will bring a very big positive change in the country. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released textbooks in Hindi of three subjects for MBBS students as part of an ambitious project of the Madhya Pradesh government to impart medical education in that language. Terming it an important day in history, Shah said Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to start the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course in Hindi. Tagging Shah's tweet on the event, Modi said in a tweet in Hindi, "This beginning in the field of medical education is going to bring a big positive change in the country." "With this, while lakhs of students will be able to study in their own language, many doors of opportunities will also open for them," the prime minister said. In his remarks at the event in Bhopal, Sha

In a first, Home Minister Amit Shah releases MBBS textbooks in Hindi

Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday termed the beginning of imparting medical education in Hindi in Madhya Pradesh as "historic", which will enhance the abilities of students and also allow them to overcome the "inferiority complex" of not knowing English. Shah released textbooks in Hindi of three subjects for the first year students of MBBS course as part of the ambitious project of the Madhya Pradesh government to impart medical education in the Hindi language, a first in the country. Shah also said the work is underway to start technical and medical education in eight other languages in the country. Studying in one's own language will enhance the abilities of students. Students across the country should come out of their linguistic inferiority complex as today there is a government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and they can showcase their abilities in their language, Shah said on the occasion. He released Hindi textbooks on Medical Biochemistry, Anatomy,

Kerala's Idukki Medical College gets NMC approval for 100 MBBS seats

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has accorded sanction to open the government medical college in Kerala's high range district of Idukki with the admission of 100 MBBS students

Health Ministry asks authorities to ramp up completion of new med colleges

The Centre on Thursday urged 14 states to accelerate the utilisation of central funds and exponentially expedite the completion of new medical colleges attached to existing District hospitals

Over 10,000 MBBS aspirants write to NTA demanding postponement of NEET

Over 10,000 MBBS aspirants have written to the National Testing Agency (NTA) demanding that the medical entrance exam NEET be postponed as its scheduled date is too close to other competitive exams. The crucial exam is scheduled to be held on July 17 this year. In the letter, the MBBS aspirants said the date for this year's National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) has been announced, even though counselling for last year's exam hasn't finished. "Many NEET aspirants and droppers from 2021 waited till the mop-up round of NEET 2021 counselling in the hope of getting a medical seat but didn't get one. The mop up round ended in the first week of April... in many states, state counselling is not finished till now. "This year, many students could not calculate their percentage of getting a seat due to the changed reservation policy in NEET 2021 counselling and suddenly after three days, NTA announced on April 6 that NEET 2022 will be conducted on 17 July 2022," the letter read. It s

SC asks NMC to frame scheme for MBBS students hit by Covid and Ukraine war

The top court took note of the plight of the student who could not complete the clinical training physically in the Chinese institute due to the pandemic situation

Who needs high-cost doctors anyway?

The future of healthcare is in embracing a low-cost, hybrid model that uses doctors and technology in an efficient mix

EWS quota in NEET-PG: SC lists batch of pleas for final hearing in April

Senior advocate Arvind Datar, appearing for MBBS doctors, said examination will be held in May and results will be announced thereafter