Health Bulletin 26/November/2025
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NEET PG 2025: MCC Revises AIQ Counselling Dates, Check Schedule
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) under the DGHS has revised the tentative schedule for the NEET PG online counselling for the academic year 2025 for the 50 percent All India Quota AIQ and 100 percent Deemed, Central Universities, and AFMS seats.
The NEET PG 2025 counselling process will comprise four rounds i.e. Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, and the Online Stray Vacancy Round - continuing till January 31, 2026. The revised schedule has been released on the official website of MCC.
NMC lacks record of 220-bed teaching hospitals: RTI
Although the National Medical Commission's newly notified Medical Institutions (Qualifications of Faculty) Regulations 2025, recognised Non-teaching government hospitals with 220+ beds as teaching institutes, the Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB) of the Commission does not have any data available regarding the number of such institutes, the Commission revealed in response to a recent Right to Information (RTI).
The RTI was filed by Dr. Meet Ghonia, the National General Secretary of the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA). In the application, he pointed out that as per the said regulations, Non-Teaching Government Hospitals with 220 or more beds can now be designated as Teaching hospitals.
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AI Can Assist, But Doctors Hold Legal Liability, Says Supreme Court Judge
While acknowledging the impact of technology and artificial intelligence in the field of medicine, the Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan recently sought to remind the medical practitioners that the legal responsibility for the diagnosis and treatment of patients will remain on them and not the machines.
Justice Bhuyan expressed this opinion while speaking at the two-day Commonwealth Medical AI Global Summit in Hyderabad. While pointing out that the growth of technology, which is rapidly transforming the healthcare sector, cannot be reversed, he also highlighted the drawbacks associated with it.
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AI only an assistant, legal responsibility lies with doctors: Supreme Court Judge
PG Medico Suspended Over Alleged Triage Lapse, Doctors’ Body Demands DMER Probe
A postgraduate resident doctor belonging to the Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital recently got suspended for allegedly failing to triage a patient according to protocol.
The PG medico is studying in the second year and belongs to the emergency medicine department at RGGGH. Condemning the institute's action of suspending a medico still under training, the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association (TNMOA) has urged the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) to intervene.
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