Final-year medical students affected by Covid-19, Russia-Ukraine war eligible for FMGE: NMC
India Today
NMC announced on Friday that final-year medical students who returned to India due to Covid-19 or the Russia-Ukraine war will be eligible to take the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE).
The National Medical Commission (NMC) announced on Friday that final-year students who returned to India as a result of Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war and received their degrees from their institutions on or before June 30, 2022, will be eligible to take the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE).
However, they would be expected to complete a Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years rather than the current one year after passing the FMGE, the NMC announced in a public notice.
The relaxation given to the international medical students is a "one-time measure" and shall not be viewed as "precedence in the future," it added.
NMC said that the foreign medical graduates will only be able to seek registration after finishing the two-year CRMI.
"In pursuance to the order passed by the Supreme Court on April 29, it is informed that the Indian students who were in the last year of their undergraduate medicine course (had to leave their foreign medical institute and return to India due to Covid-19, Russia-Ukraine war etc) and have subsequently completed their studies as also have been granted a certificate of completion of the course by their respective institute, on or before June 30, 2022, shall be permitted to appear in FMG exam," the notice said.
"Thereafter, upon qualifying the FMG examination, such foreign medical graduates are required to undergo CRMI for a period of two years to make up for the clinical training which could not be physically attended by them during the undergraduate medicine course in the foreign institute as also to familiarise them with the practice of medicine under Indian conditions," the notice said.
On April 29, the Supreme Court had ordered the regulating authority to develop a plan within two months to allow MBBS students impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war to finish their clinical rotations in local medical colleges as a one-time solution.
