NMC withdraws updated syllabus rules on ‘sodomy & lesbianism’
New Delhi : National Medical Commission has withdrawn the Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) Guidelines, 2024, the updated curriculum for medical graduates published last week. The action follows an uproar over the reintroduction of ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offences in the forensic medicine and toxicology curriculum for undergraduate medical students. The CBME guidelines, 2024, also brought back topics such as the hymen and its type, and its medico-legal importance besides defining virginity and defloration, legitimacy and its medicolegal importance. Some of these subjects were done away with in 2022 in accordance with a Madras high court directive.
NMC on Thursday notified that the circular issuing guidelines under CBME 2024 stands “withdrawn and cancelled” with immediate effect. “The above guidelines will be revised and uploaded in due course,” it said. CBME was introduced in 2019. After five years, NMC amended it to include latest updates. However, many academics pointed out that some of the changes were not only controversial but regressive and that it required a rethink
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