MBBS Interns at Private Medical Colleges to now get Stipend: MCI BOG nod to proposal

The issue had been raised with the Medical Council of India at numerous points in the past, however, the MCI had shown its inability to take action against the private medical institutions on the issue of non-payment of stipend/payment of low stipend citing lack of authority with the council to take action in this regard. The issue was brought up one of the Executive Meeting of the council in 2017 but the EC held that "Graduate Medical Education (GME) Regulations 1997 do not provide for the payment of stipend to the interns" and that the issue was beyond the purview of the council.

In the month of January 2019, The apex medical regulator MCI  approached to subject and came with a proposal to add the following proposed amendment with relation to stipend in the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997. The same was also put in public domain for comments

"All the candidates pursuing compulsory rotating internship at the institution from which MBBS course was completed, shall be paid stipend on par with the stipend being paid to the interns of the State Govt. Medical Institution / Central Government Medical Institution in the State / Union Territory where the institution is located."

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