Supreme Court agrees with NMC's rules for foreign medical graduates
The top court of India has upheld the National Medical Commission's regulations prescribing certain strictures for foreign medical graduates before they get registration in India.
Supreme Court has upheld the National Medical Commission (NMC) guidelines that prescribe strictures for foreign medical graduates (FMGs) before they get registered to practice in India.
The court has observed that the “exploitative founders of infrastructure-deficient” medical colleges and “over-ambitious parents” have led to the decline and commercialisation of medical education, as reported by The Hindu.
A Bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian upheld the regulatory validity of NMC Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021 which requires the FMGs to undergo a medical course for a minimum of 54 months and the National Medical Commission (Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship) Regulations of 2021 that mandates the internship for a minimum duration of 12 months in the same foreign medical college from where the students have completed their courses and further a supervised 12-month internship in India after applying to NMC.
India needs really qualified doctors, says court
“True that the country needs more doctors, but it needs really qualified doctors and not persons trained by institutions abroad, to test their skills only in their motherland,” said Justice Ramasubramanian.
“Experts in the field of education believe (and justifiably so) that over-ambitious parents, hapless children, exploitative and unscrupulous (and sometimes unlettered) founders of infrastructure-deficient educational institutions, paralysed regulatory bodies and courts with misplaced sympathy, have all contributed to the commercialisation of education and the decline of standards in the field of education, in general, and medical education, in particular,” he added.
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