Hundreds of medical students fleeing Ukraine fear an uncertain professional future.
new Delhi:
India’s medical regulatory body said today that foreign medical graduates, who are involved in activities beyond their control, such as the COVID and the ongoing Ukraine war, can end up in India after passing the screening test. Huh. In a circular, the National Medical Commission (NMC) said that in view of the “pain and stress” faced by these students, their applications may be processed by the State Medical Councils, provided the candidates have completed the application. Must have passed the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination before doing so. Internship in India.
The move is set to benefit hundreds of Indian medical students in Ukraine who had to drop out of their studies and return to India as Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the former Soviet republic.
“State Medical Councils should ensure that the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) conducted by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) is passed by candidates seeking registration in India. If the candidate is found to be meeting the criteria, provisional registration may be provided to State Medical Councils for internship of 12 months or for the remaining period, as the case may be,” the circular said.
The NMC said that the state medical councils should obtain an undertaking from the medical college that no fee is charged from foreign medical graduates (FMGs) for allowing them to do internships.
“The stipend and other facilities to the FMG should be increased at par with Indian medical graduates being trained in government medical colleges, as decided by the appropriate authority,” it said.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had yesterday written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urging the Center to accommodate all evacuated Indian medical students in the country’s existing medical schools through fair distribution.
“All the exited medical education learners who are Indian citizens and have obtained admission there to obtain eligibility certificates from the statutory authorities in India and are at various stages of progress through a reasonable disbursement in the existing medical schools in the country through a one-time measure.” Keeping in view the geographical location of the said learner, the distribution is directed that the one-time incorporation in the concerned medical college should not be taken as an increase in the annual intake capacity and progress in the concerned Indian should be allowed to go to medical school for the rest of his MBBS course,” read the letter from the IMA.
“The analogy of the aforesaid proposal has been drawn on the basis of the clear modalities, which are obtained in the Indian context in the case of closure of an ongoing medical college in India, whereby students are already admitted there, They are appropriately distributed to other medical schools in India. The terms of a structured process that have been laid down and taken as a one-time exception are not cited as a priority and any The manner in which the annual intake of admission to a medical college is considered as an increase or increase in capacity.” ,