New Delhi: Those intending to become doctors and treat patients may soon have to clear a common exit test after getting the MBBS degree from medical colleges.
The regulatory body, Medical Council of India (MCI), has given a statutory recommendation for a mandatory exit test, which is under active consideration of the health ministry, the Supreme Court was informed on Friday.
Considering the sensitive nature of the profession — dealing with life and death — and keeping in mind varying standards of education in medical colleges, MCI has proposed a common exit examination for MBBS pass-outs intending to become doctors and treat patients, solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam told a bench of Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale.
This recommendation of the MCI was to standardize the skills of doctors, said the regulatory body’s counsel senior advocate Amarendra Saran, supplementing the arguments of the health ministry advanced through the SG.
This is in line with the decision of Bar Council of India (BCI) making it mandatory for law graduates to clear a test to be able to practice in courts.
Importantly, both Subramaniam and MCI counsel Amarendra Saran informed the bench that very soon a notification would be issued to put in place a single window admission test for filling postgraduate course seats in all private and government medical colleges from the next academic session (2011-12).
This would ease the tension and trouble of thousands of students competing for few PG seats, for which they have to travel to different places to appear in entrance examinations for PG courses of different colleges. Clashing of dates of examination often adds to the woes of the students. But all that will be a thing of past from next year, thanks to the common entrance test for PG seats in all private and government medical colleges.
However, the joint attempt of MCI and government to push through the common admission test for MBBS courses in private and government medical colleges did not get approval of the apex court, which said it could not do so without getting the responses of the state governments.
New Delhi: Those intending to become doctors and treat patients may soon have to clear a common exit test after getting the MBBS degree from medical colleges.
The regulatory body, Medical Council of India (MCI), has given a statutory recommendation for a mandatory exit test, which is under active consideration of the health ministry, the Supreme Court was informed on Friday.
Considering the sensitive nature of the profession — dealing with life and death — and keeping in mind varying standards of education in medical colleges, MCI has proposed a common exit examination for MBBS pass-outs intending to become doctors and treat patients, solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam told a bench of Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale.
This recommendation of the MCI was to standardize the skills of doctors, said the regulatory body’s counsel senior advocate Amarendra Saran, supplementing the arguments of the health ministry advanced through the SG.
This is in line with the decision of Bar Council of India (BCI) making it mandatory for law graduates to clear a test to be able to practice in courts.
Importantly, both Subramaniam and MCI counsel Amarendra Saran informed the bench that very soon a notification would be issued to put in place a single window admission test for filling postgraduate course seats in all private and government medical colleges from the next academic session (2011-12).
This would ease the tension and trouble of thousands of students competing for few PG seats, for which they have to travel to different places to appear in entrance examinations for PG courses of different colleges. Clashing of dates of examination often adds to the woes of the students. But all that will be a thing of past from next year, thanks to the common entrance test for PG seats in all private and government medical colleges.
However, the joint attempt of MCI and government to push through the common admission test for MBBS courses in private and government medical colleges did not get approval of the apex court, which said it could not do so without getting the responses of the state governments.
