Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 29: The National Medical Commission announced on Friday that final-year students who returned to India due to the Covid 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 Graduate Exam.
The Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) will now last two years instead of the current one after passing the Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) exam, the NMC announced in a public notice.
Indian students who were in last year of their UG medicine course (due to COVID19, Russia-Ukraine war returned to India)&have completed their studies& granted certifcate of completion of course on or before June 30 will be permitted to appear in Foreign Medical Graduate Exam pic.twitter.com/9kKTOor9q9
— ANI (@ANI) July 29, 2022
The relaxation given to the foreign medical students is a ‘one-time measure’ and shall not be viewed as ‘precedence in the future,’ it further said, adding that the foreign medical graduates will only be able to seek registration after finishing the two-year CRMI.
Notably on April 29, the Supreme Court ordered the regulating authority to develop a plan within two months to allow MBBS students impacted by the epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war to finish their clinical rotations in local medical colleges as a one-time solution.
