NMC frames scheme for final year Ukraine and China returned medicos

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has told the Supreme Court that the final year medical students who returned from Ukraine and China need to clear FMGE and undergo two years of CRMI to get registration in India.

The Supreme Court had directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) in April to formulate a scheme as a one-time measure for the Ukraine and China returned medicos who were compelled to return to India due to the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid-19 pandemic. Now, NMC has developed a scheme for the final year foreign medical graduates and told the top court that these medicos will be eligible for registration only after clearing the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) and undergoing two years Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) instead of one year.

NMC submitted an affidavit in court on June 23. The NMC affidavit says, "The internship period has been doubled to make up for the clinical training which could not be physically attended by the foreign medical graduates during their course in the institutes abroad and to familiarise them with the practice of medicine under Indian conditions," as reported by NDTV.

More details of NMC's affidavit

The medical education regulatory body stated that after April 29 judgement, its Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) discussed and deliberated upon the matter pertaining to foreign medical graduates in its various meetings. The matter was also considered by the Union Health Ministry along with the inputs from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) which was forwarded by the consulates of India from Ukraine, China, and Russia, among others.

"The Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine, has directed the heads of educational institutions to resume the educational process while ensuring the most favourable learning conditions, taking into account the location of staff and students. Students are free to choose for themselves clinical bases for obtaining practical skills," stated the affidavit.

"They were given temporary academic mobility to pursue their education, while they continue to be enrolled as a student of the university, it stated. Ukraine has ordered the KROK Centre to reschedule the first stage of the qualifying examination for foreigners to be held offline in October," said NMC.

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