Health Bulletin 03/ February/ 2025
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Informing about the constitution of a Specialty Expert Committee (SEC) for each speciality, the National Medical Commission has asked willing faculties/ specialists to furnish their details by 15th February 2025.
Writing to the Principal/Dean of all PG medical colleges under NMC, the Executive Director of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), and the Dean/Principal of all Institutes of National Importance, NMC Secretary Dr. B Srinivas addressed the issue of constitution of speciality expert committee of various postgraduate specialties.
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Modifying its earlier order, the Supreme Court has now granted relief to many medical professionals in West Bengal by ensuring that those who completed their studies by July 2022 and were employed as senior residents would retain their degrees as legal and valid.
The top court bench on 17.10.2022 refused to consider their admission to the PG courses (for the 2019-2020 academic year) beyond the cut-off date of May 31, 2019.
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The Central Government plans to take steps to further expand the medical education sector by adding more medical seats to the country's seat matrix, announced Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget 2025 today.
In her budget speech, the Minister announced that the Government will include 75,000 new undergraduate medical seats in the next five years while noting that nearly 1.1 lakh undergraduate and postgraduate medical seats have already been added over the past 10 years, which is an increase of 130%.
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