New rules for professional conduct issued by the NMC, following the controversy over a proposal by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to replace the Hippocratic oath with the Charaka oath, neither the word Charaka nor Hippocratic anywhere.
According to a report in the Times of India, the new draft of the regulation includes a “physician’s pledge”, which is a 2017 revised Geneva announcement. World Medical Association.
NMC has posted the draft Registered Medical Practitioners (Professional Conduct) Regulations 2022 for comments of the public, experts and stakeholders.
The report in February stated that NMC was considering To replace the Hippocratic Oath with the Charaka Oath. The Charaka oath was named after Charaka, the father of Ayurveda.
However, the Health Ministry said in the Lok Sabha in March that the NMC has not proposed to replace the Charaka oath with the Hippocratic oath.
The NMC then put out guidelines for merit-based medical education on its website, where it states that the “Revised Maharishi Charak Oath” is recommended when a candidate is introduced to medical education. It included a brief transliteration of Maharishi Charaka’s oath.
However, there was no reference to replace the Hippocratic Oath nor was the oath obligatory.
In the earlier Professional Conduct Rules of the Medical Council India also, there was no mention of the Hippocratic Oath. But it contained a shortened and revised version of the Geneva Declaration.
The controversy began when the NMC’s Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) in its February meeting proposed to replace the Hippocratic Oath with the Charak Oath. The NMC’s public notice did not refute the minutes of the meeting circulated on social media, but clarified that the meeting was of UGMEB and not of NMC.
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