MCI allows students to pursue medical course abroad, mandates them to qualify NEET in 2020 or 2021The candidates should also fulfil criteria under the 'Screening Test Regulations, 2002' and the 'Regulations on Graduate Medical Education,...
29 Aug, 2020, 07.42 PM IST
Foreign-trained Indian docs seek exemption from mandatory exam, say could add 20,000 medicsAccording to government rules, any Indian citizen possessing a primary medical qualification awarded by a foreign institution who wants pro...
27 Mar, 2020, 07.24 PM IST
Process of setting up National Medical Commission likely to be over in FebThe NMC Act, which seeks to usher in mega reforms in the medical education sector, received the assent of the president on August 8 and was...
12 Jan, 2020, 03.39 PM IST
National Medical Commission bill passes Rajya Sabha test; healthcare on verge of landmark changesModi government considers this bill as one of the biggest reforms.
08 Aug, 2019, 10.03 AM IST
National Medical Commission Bill gets Cabinet nod, to be introduced in current session of ParliamentThe NMC Bill proposes a common final year MBBS exam, to be known as National Exit Test (NEXT), for admission to post-graduate medical cours...
17 Jul, 2019, 09.02 PM IST
MRCP-UK can make one consultant here, not in BritainAccording to the MRCP-UK international brochure, the three-part MRCP(UK) merely makes a person eligible for higher specialist training.
20 Sep, 2018, 11.24 AM IST
Will UK's MRCP post-graduation medical degrees escape Indian regulation?It all started with the MCI issuing a notification in March last year that postgraduate medical qualifications awarded in the US, UK, Canad...
10 Sep, 2018, 12.09 PM IST
Doctors with foreign degrees flunk in screening test in IndiaThe pass percentage in the screening test dropped from 50.12 in 2005 to 10.7 in 2015. Even the pass rate drops all-time low of 4.93% in Jun...
25 May, 2016, 01.29 PM IST
Sales reps testing patients at 'free health camps' in IndiaFree 'health camps' for poor people in India have grown popular, Frederik Joelving, a journalist based in Denmark wrote in the journal.
03 Dec, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
China becomes the largest contributor of MBBS doctors to IndiaChina is today the largest contributor of MBBS doctors to India followed by Russia, Ukraine and Nepal, according to data collated by the Na...
06 Nov, 2015, 11.27 AM IST
Modi government plans exit exam for MBBS doctorsThe move by the health ministry comes in the wake of concerns over the quality of doctors being produced in the country.
01 Jun, 2015, 09.18 AM IST
Medical education system may see radical revamp if government agrees with its panelIn other words, if this committee were to have its way, medical aspirants will have to take only one entrance test to seek admission in any...
11 Aug, 2014, 12.22 PM IST
79% of doctors with foreign degrees fail screening test for practicing in IndiaOnly 21% (around one in five) students who received foreign medical degrees and appeared in the screening test qualified this year.
08 Dec, 2012, 01.47 PM IST
- 10,000 foreign-educated doctors jobless after failing Medical Council of India test
Now, the graduates plan to approach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Parliament demanding that the test be scrapped.
19 Nov, 2012, 12.07 PM IST
Foreign degree won't do to be a doc in IndiaScreening test mandatory for students having MBBS degrees from abroad.
22 Sep, 2009, 02.40 PM IST
- Foreign degree won't do to be a doc in India
You may have graduated from premier medical schools like Harvard or Johns Hopkins but you will not be able to practise in India till you ha...
22 Sep, 2009, 12.48 AM IST
- China's medical college appoints Environs as partner
China's Wenzhou Medical College has appointed Environs, a Bangalore based education consultant, as its partner in Karnataka.
14 Jun, 2006, 09.30 PM IST