- Students who will qualify for the Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) exam will be required to undergo a Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years instead of one
- About 40,000 students studying medicine in Ukraine and China have returned home.
IndiGlobal Bureau
There is some relief to the Indian students who returned to India from Ukraine and China. The National Medical Commission (Undergraduate Medical Education Board) announced that Indian medical students who returned to India last year due to COVID and the war in Ukraine and have been able to finish the programme on or before June 30 will now be permitted to appear in Foreign Medical Graduate Exam.
However, students who will qualify for the Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) exam will be required to undergo a Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years instead of the existing one year. It further added that it was a one-time measure and shall not be treated as ‘precedence in future’.
No such reliefs are being offered to first and second year MBBS students who returned from Ukraine and China.
NMC said, “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.”
“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.”
Since last year, NMC has been actively considering allowing final year medical students who returned from Ukraine and China to complete their education from their parent universities online and then take the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE).
About 40,000 students studying medicine in Ukraine and China have returned home. An MBBS degree is for five-and-a-half years — nine semesters over four-and-a-half years and one year of internship.
