Health Bulletin 11/ November/ 2024
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As per the break-up of the seats added during this academic year, 6850 MBBS seats have been added to 72 New Medical Colleges and intake capacity of MBBS seats has been increased by 1822 MBBS seats at 30 existing medical colleges.
The Madras High Court recently refused to impose any ban on doctors and hospitals from advertising in the media, One India has reported.
Although the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed before the HC bench seeking to impose a ban on the media from publishing advertisements promoting fake doctors, fake drugs, and medical treatments and hospitals, the HC bench comprising Chief Justice Sriram, Senthil Kumar Ramamurthy observed that it cannot be expected from the media to verify every advertisement related to doctors and hospitals.
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Medical Colleges running postgraduate medical courses may lose double the number of seats for one or more years if they violate the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations (PGMER) rules, 2023.
Laying down the rules and regulations for postgraduate medical admission, the Apex Medical Education Regulatory Body i.e. NMC on December 29, 2023 released the PGMER 2023 Regulations.
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The Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has extended the deadline for submitting details of students admitted to the MBBS course for the academic year 2024-2025 from November 8, 2024, to 23rd November 2024.
An extension for the deadline was granted by the Commission after observing that many medical colleges/institutes have not filled or partially filled the required information till 08.11.2024 using the online portal of NMC.
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