PG med counselling ’24, after delay, from Nov 8

PG med counselling ’24, after delay, from Nov 8 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 02.11.2024

Chennai : PG medical counselling for 2024, which faced significant delays, will finally open for choice locking on Nov 8 by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC). Registration for the first round, which opened on Sept 20, will close on Nov 17, a release on Friday said. 

“A series of issues, including new scoring patterns and legal issues, delayed counselling. We have now released dates for state and central counselling and hope to finish by Jan-end. Last date of joining is Feb 5,” a senior official said. All participating institutes have been told to treat all weekends and gazetted holidays as working days. “Data of joined candidates will be shared by DMEs/state counselling authorities with MCC to eliminate candidates in seat processing of round 3 and stray vacancy round.” State counselling authorities have been asked to eliminate such candidates before seat processing of the stray vacancy round. Last date for joining PG courses will be Feb 5, though academic sessions will begin by Dec 20. 

National Board of Examination conducted NEET PG on Aug 11 in two batches. On Aug 23, it declared results and released percentiles, not individual student scores. The state's request for “individual normalised scores” was rejected. At least six states apart from TN told the govt it would be difficult to conduct counselling for in service candidates without individual scores. “Since exams were conducted in two batches, they told us scores cannot be compared or nor malised. They asked us to use only percentiles. We could not do this as we cannot add incentive percentages to per centile scores,” Director of Medical Education Dr J Sangumani earlier said. Officials tried reverse calculations using percentile scores to calculate marks but found it unreliable. After consulting National Medical Commission, NBE said it will release state specific merit list for in-service candidates for 7 states after state selection committees send incentive marks. 

The MCC portal will open for round 1 choice filling between Nov 8 and 17. First round results  will be out on Nov 20 and last date for joining Nov 27. Second round will begin on Dec 4, and results out on Dec 12. Third and online stray vacancy round will follow.