NMC Sets Guidelines for New Postgraduate Medical Courses
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The National Medical Commission (NMC) has recently released a new regulation that demands medical colleges intending to introduce new postgraduate (PG) medical courses like MD/MS, DM/MCh, PDF, PDCC or six-year DM/MCh programmes to seek advance permission from the PGMEB before submitting their formal proposal for starting new courses.
Recognition of Medical Qualification”) Regulation-2023. The PG teaching institutions plan to add new PG or super-specialty courses approach the PGMEB for guidelines, which may be given as long as a feasible response is warranted. Only after this can a formal proposal by the teaching institution with required fees be presented.
The NMC notice issues an instruction that all such applications from the medical institutions must be submitted via the prescribed application form, which is downloadable from the official website of the NMC. This application must also be accompanied by certain annexures, which include Standard Assessment Form Part-A (Institutional Information common for all PG Specialities) and Standard Assessment Form Part-B of the Parent Specialty.
The fee of Rs 2,50,000 plus 18 % GST for one qualification needs to be paid at the time of submission of application by the institution. The PGMEB shall not accept proposals that do not fulfill the correct format or submitted without the stipulated fees.
It is a component of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, leading to a holistic reform in the process of approval for new medical qualifications. The regulations ensure that the institutions adhere to the standards requirements before launching new PG medical programs. Medical colleges or institutes are also instructed to make sure the qualification they wanted to introduce is not already presented on the list under Annexure-I to VI of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023.
This is a way for the NMC to be sure that all qualifications are of better quality and standard, while also assisting the country in achieving its vision of having an adequately qualified medical profession.
