NEXT may be must for foreign med graduates
Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: 21.05.2018
Foreign medical graduates keen on practising in India may have to clear the National Exit Test instead of Foreign Medical Graduates Exam from next year.
In an attempt to streamline medical education and maintain uniformity in quality of doctors practicing in the country, the health ministry is planning to merge FMGE with NEXT, which has been proposed to assess quality of MBBS graduates.
Currently, foreign medical graduates are required to write the FMGE and show MCI eligibility certificates to become eligible to practise here. Now the government is planning to merge FMGE with NEXT and scrap the MCI eligibilty score. Graduates from abroad will also have to take NEET and then NEXT to qualify for practice in the country.
The proposal of NEXT is part of the National Medical Commission Bill, 2018, which is likely to be taken up in the monsoon session of Parliament. The bill, which was amended following recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on health, now proposes a uniform national exit test in the final year of MBBS course to test the quality of the graduating MBBS students.
Ministry may use NEXT to assess quality of passouts
According to the health ministry, in 2015-16, only 610 out of 5,863 Indian students who pursued medical graduation abroad passed the screening test conducted by the MCI. However, the number of such students going abroad, mainly to China, are constantly increasing because while seats in government medical colleges in India are limited, pursing MBBS in private colleges here is a very high cost affair.
The ministry is now also considering a proposal to scrap FMGE and instead use NEXT to assess the quality of foreign medical pass outs as well. “This will ensure a uniform yardstick for assessing all doctors practicing in India, which precisely is the objective of an exit exam,” an official said. FMGE are conducted twice a year – in June and December - – and require a minimum of 50% marks to clear.
Earlier this year, the ministry had also made it mandatory for Indian students to clear the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) if they want to pursue medical studies outside the country. According to the new rules, students going abroad to study would no longer need eligibility certificates from the Medical Council of India if they want to study abroad and later return to India to write the FMG test and practise medicine. Instead, they will have to produce NEET score before writing NEXT.
The idea is to improve the quality of foreign medical graduates returning to India to practice.
Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: 21.05.2018
Foreign medical graduates keen on practising in India may have to clear the National Exit Test instead of Foreign Medical Graduates Exam from next year.
In an attempt to streamline medical education and maintain uniformity in quality of doctors practicing in the country, the health ministry is planning to merge FMGE with NEXT, which has been proposed to assess quality of MBBS graduates.
Currently, foreign medical graduates are required to write the FMGE and show MCI eligibility certificates to become eligible to practise here. Now the government is planning to merge FMGE with NEXT and scrap the MCI eligibilty score. Graduates from abroad will also have to take NEET and then NEXT to qualify for practice in the country.
The proposal of NEXT is part of the National Medical Commission Bill, 2018, which is likely to be taken up in the monsoon session of Parliament. The bill, which was amended following recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on health, now proposes a uniform national exit test in the final year of MBBS course to test the quality of the graduating MBBS students.
Ministry may use NEXT to assess quality of passouts
According to the health ministry, in 2015-16, only 610 out of 5,863 Indian students who pursued medical graduation abroad passed the screening test conducted by the MCI. However, the number of such students going abroad, mainly to China, are constantly increasing because while seats in government medical colleges in India are limited, pursing MBBS in private colleges here is a very high cost affair.
The ministry is now also considering a proposal to scrap FMGE and instead use NEXT to assess the quality of foreign medical pass outs as well. “This will ensure a uniform yardstick for assessing all doctors practicing in India, which precisely is the objective of an exit exam,” an official said. FMGE are conducted twice a year – in June and December - – and require a minimum of 50% marks to clear.
Earlier this year, the ministry had also made it mandatory for Indian students to clear the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) if they want to pursue medical studies outside the country. According to the new rules, students going abroad to study would no longer need eligibility certificates from the Medical Council of India if they want to study abroad and later return to India to write the FMG test and practise medicine. Instead, they will have to produce NEET score before writing NEXT.
The idea is to improve the quality of foreign medical graduates returning to India to practice.
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