NMC releases draft gazette on NEXT with details, invites comments
Waiting for the end for thousands of medicos across the country, the Apex medical regulation, National Medical Commission has finally released the proposed draft regulations related to National Exit Test (NExT) clearly specifying that it will serve as both a licentiate exam for the purpose of practice of modern medicine for both Indian Medicos and Foreign Medical Graduates and also as a gateway entrance Examination for admission to courses Postgraduate Medical Education.
The draft further provides all the details related to the NExT exam detailing its objective, applicability, its bifurcation into STEP 1 and STEP 2 and how these two steps examinations be conducted as well as the calculations and validity and the uses of the NeXT scores. Currently, it is not specified which body will conduct the exam. The draft notes that NEXT step 1 scores will be used towards PG entrance and NEXT STEP 2 will be a qualifying exam. The validity the NEXT STEP 1 scores towards PG entrance shall be 3 years and at the same time there is no limit on the attempts at both the exams provided that the candidate has passed both NExT Step 1 and NExT Step 2 Examination within 10 years of joining the MBBS Course
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