NMC to Allow Indian Medical Students from Ukraine and China to sit for FMGE

New Delhi: According to the National Medical Commission final-year medical students from China and Ukraine can now sit for Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) – a screening test that foreign medical students have to clear to practice in the country. Candidates who were not able to complete their practical training due to the pandemic or the war now be allowed to sit for FMGE.

NMC has proposed that this will be a one-time relaxation granted due to unforeseen circumstances. Currently, foreign medical graduates have to complete their training and a one-year internship at the university they are enrolled in order to appear for the FMGE exam in India. They then have to do a one-year-long internship in India as well in order to get permanent registration.

A senior official said, “The relaxation will be applicable only for a year, so students should refrain from taking admission to courses in these countries this year even though China is now allowing very few students to return. Some of the students from China were given an internship completion certificate online, how can that be accepted. The two-year internship will help in plugging the gaps in clinical training,”

NMC to Allow Indian Medical Students from China and Ukraine for FGME: Highlights

The students who pass the examination will then have to complete a two-year internship to be eligible for permanent registration to practice medicine in the country.

On the orders of the Supreme Court, the proposal was submitted by the undergraduate medical board of NMC. The proposal states that the first and second-year medical students, who joined their college after November 2021, can appear again for NEET to seek admission to Indian colleges. These students, unlike the third and fourth-year students, cannot take a transfer to universities in other European countries.

According to the new guidelines for foreign medical graduates that came into force in November 2021 that the students have to complete their entire training and internship at the same university.

The NEET 2021 counselling was delayed due to the pandemic COVID 19. Hence some of the first-year students who had appeared for NEET the same year did opt to sit for the counselling.

Around 18,000 medical students returned from Ukraine after the war started in February. There are almost 65,000 students in India – mainly from China and Ukraine, but also from the Philippines – whose education was halted because of the new norms.

Another official said, “There is no way we can accommodate so many medical students in India. We have a total of 90,000 MBBS seats and there are so many people higher up in the merit list who might not have gotten admission, so how can we give the seats to them?”

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