Foreign MBBS holders: Registration only after 2 Years internship: NMC

The NMC said the scheme had been approved in its eighth meeting.

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Last Updated on December 31, 2023 by The Health Master

Final year MBBS students studying abroad who were forced to leave their college due to the Russia-Ukraine war or the COVID pandemic but subsequently completed their course and were granted a certificate of completion will be permitted to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduation (FMG) Examination, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has told the Supreme Court.

“Thereafter, upon clearing the examination, such FMGs are required to undergo Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years to make up for the clinical training which they could not physically attend during the undergraduate medical course in their foreign institutes concerned.”

“The internship will also familiarise them with the practice of medicine under Indian conditions,” the NMC said in an affidavit.”

The NMC said the scheme had been approved in its eighth meeting.

After perusing the NMC affidavit, a Bench led by Justice Hemant Gupta on July 25 disposed of the matter, saying, “No further orders are called…”


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On April 29, the SC ruled that foreign MBBS degree holders can’t be given provisional registration to complete their internship in India without first completing the clinical training in physical form.

However, it had instructed the NMC to create a scheme as a one-time measure within two months to allow such students to receive clinical training in India in light of the large number of Indian medical students returning from Ukraine.

In its compliance affidavit, the NMC said following the SC verdict, it consulted the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of External Affairs and, as a “one-time measure,” decided to frame a scheme and grant relaxation to foreign medical graduates.

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