Final-year UG med exams postponed, MBBS not included
Sujit.Mahamulkar@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: 24.07.2020
All final-year exams for undergraduate courses in health sciences, except MBBS, were deferred by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) on Thursday, per state medical education minister Amit Deshmukh’s directions. Deshmukh said holding exams during the Covid crisis would endanger student lives. A decision on final-year MBBS exams is pending.
The minister asked MUHS to start classes for first, second and third year UG students.
Deshmukh said conducting exams for postgraduate students will not be an issue as they are already on campus. He added that their entrance test for superspecialty courses (NEET-SS) is scheduled on September 15. All PG exams are scheduled from August 17.
He also directed MUHS to allow final-year students to start their internship and to conduct their exams when the situation improves. He said that all non-certifying exams should be deferred till further government instructions.
MUHS had already deferred first, second and third year exams on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the Medical Students’ Welfare Association threatened to strike if UG and PG exams were not cancelled in the state.
(With inputs from Yogita Rao)
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