MD Laboratory Medicine gets recognition by MCI Board of Governors
New Delhi: From now on, a new dimension of MD in Laboratory Medicine will be available to candidates wanting to pursue their PG medical course in the field of laboratory medicine. This comes as the Medical Council of India (MCI) has now given recognition to this course by its inclusion in the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000.
The confirmation to this effect was given by Medical Council of India Board of governors (MCI BOG) via the official notification in The Gazette of India; which clearly mentions that MD Laboratory Medicine has been added in the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000.
In the said the Gazette Notification dated, 2nd September 2020, the Board of Governors in Supersession of the Medical Council of India (MCI BoG) have stated,
In exercise of powers conferred by Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), the Board of Governors in Super-session of Medical Council of India with previous sanction of the Central Government hereby makes the following regulations to further amend the "Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000" namely:—
1. (i) These Regulation may be called the "Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulation, 2020."
(ii) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the "Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000", the following additions/ modifications/deletions/substitutions, shall be as indicated therein:-
3. In Schedule of the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000, Clause "A" under the heading "M.D.(Doctor of Medicine)", the following shall be added after, M.D.(Marine Medicine):- "MD (Laboratory Medicine)"
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