NMC Amends Rules on Qualifying Criteria for Setting up medical colleges, details

New Delhi: Finalising the proposed changes in the "Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999", the National Medical Commission (NMC) has now published the modified qualifying criteria for setting up medical colleges and published the Establishment of Medical College Regulations, (Amendment), 2022 in the official Gazette.

Easing the norms for the universities and deemed-to-be universities, NMC has now declared that Universities or deemed to be universities will not be required to fulfill the condition of "fully functional hospital for a minimum of 2 years".

However, such a relief has been given to them on the condition that the building of hospital and the medical college are owned and managed by the same organization, the proposed building of the medical college has not been used for any other purpose before making the application, and at the time of application, the institute has an established multi-specialty hospital with at least 1000 in-patient beds.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that back in September, NMC had released the Draft Establishment of Medical College Regulations, (Amendment), 2022. Informing about the proposed modifications, NMC back on September 19, 2022 had invited public comments on the amended regulations. 

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The Apex medical body had mentioned in the notice, "The Public Comments on the Draft Establishment of Medical College Regulations, (Amendment), 2022 as per Section 57 of the NMC Act, 2019 may be shared at the following e-mail ID — ugmebnmc.org.in in MS Word (.docx) format or machine readable PDF format within 30 days of publishing of this notice."

While earlier only the draft had been released, now the amended rules have been published on the official Gazette on December 14, 2022. The Amendment notification issued by NMC stated, "In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 10(A) read with Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), and section 61(2) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, the National Medical Commission hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the "Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999" namely..."

The modified qualifying criteria, as mentioned in the amended regulations states-

"In clause 2(5A), under the heading "QUALIFYING CRITERIA", the following shall be added:-

The condition of 'fully functional hospital for a minimum period of 2 years' shall not apply in case of Universities or deemed to be universities within the meaning of University Grants Commission Act, 1956, having experience of establishing and running fully functional recognized medical colleges and hospital of 1000 beds or more, for at least two years, anywhere in India, provided that:-

(i) The building of both the hospital and the medical college is owned and managed by the same organization.

(ii) The building of the proposed medical college has not been used for any other purpose before making an application to the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of National Medical Commission (NMC) for establishment of new medical colleges, and

(iii) At the time of application, the said medical college has an established multi-specialty hospital with at least 1000 in-patient beds and fulfilling all other norms under the regulation."

To view the Gazette notification, click on the link below:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/nmc-gazette-193851.pdf

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