Cabinet Approval: National Medical Commission to Replace MCI, NEXT to become reality

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 second appellate authority in case disputes arise.

As per protocol, the bill will now be tabled in the Parliament to get it cleared at both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Alternatively, in certain cases, a bill is also brought in by the ordinance route. It remains to be seen what will happen next

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Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the draft bill had been put forward on 2016 after recommendations were made by a Niti Aayog Committee to bring overhaul in the medical education sector by replacing the Medical Council of India with a more transparent body of National Medical Commission.

As the name suggests, the bill calls for the scrapping of  MCI  and creation of a NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION to be the apex policy-making body for regulating medical education in the country, which through the functioning of its four constituents boards will regulate the medical sector.  Besides this, a new Institutional Architecture for Regulation had been suggested in the bill with a Medical Advisory Council (MAC) having representation from the States and Union Territories (UTs) to articulate the national agenda for medical education.

The bill had faced objections from many in the medical community, as it proposed NEXT  ie National Exit Test for MBBS students passing out of government as well as private colleges to address concerns over the standard of medical education in the country. However, no changes were made in the bill in this regard

More details to follow....

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