Ukraine returned students: No proposal to allow lateral entry into Indian medical institutions

The government has said that for Ukraine returned students there is no proposal to transfer or allow lateral entry into Indian medical institutions.

Amid the growing demand to accommodate Ukraine returned medical students to Indian medical colleges, the Centre has said that for students pursuing medical courses from abroad whose studies have been interrupted by war and conflict, there is no proposal to transfer or allow lateral entry into Indian medical institutions.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pawar said, "For the betterment of Indian students pursuing medical studies abroad, National Medical Commission (NMC) in its circular of 4th of last month has allowed foreign medical graduates with incomplete internship due to such compelling situation to complete their remaining part of internship in India. It is with condition that such candidates must have cleared FMGE (Screening Test), which is mandatory for Indian students with foreign medical qualification to practice medicine in India."

Final year MBBS students of Ukraine to get MBBS degree without clearing licensing exam

The reports are emerging that the Ukraine government has announced that it will cancel the mandatory licensing exam KROK2 and award MBBS degrees to final year MBBS students of Ukraine universities who left the country due to the war, as reported by TOI.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him that as a special case, these students must be enabled to join medical colleges in India in equivalent semesters in relaxation of the regulations in vogue.

"As per reports, there are over 20,000 Indian students who have been dislocated from Ukraine due to the war. Most of them are from middle-class families which will lose their lifetime savings without any hope of completing the medical education of their children. You will agree that everything possible should be done to safeguard their future," he said in the letter.

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