Andhra FMGs Protest In Front of Medical Council Office Demanding Permanent Registration

Vijayawada: Demanding solutions to the challenges faced by them, the foreign medical graduates in Andhra Pradesh held a peaceful and silent protest in front of the State Medical Council on Tuesday.

It is alleged that the students are being asked to undergo 2-3 years of internship even though they went back to their parent institutes and compensated for their online classes.

Explaining the issue, the State team of AIMSA-FMGW informed Medical Dialogues that when the FMGs reached the Andhra Pradesh Medical Council's office, the police officials did not allow them to protest and arranged for a 5-10-member team from the association to submit their representation to the APMC official.

Accordingly, they submitted their representation to the Assistant Registrar. However, they did not receive any assurance from the APMC regarding their problems and that's why the medical graduates from abroad are urging the Government to intervene.

The association alleged that every time they approach the Council for a solution, the officials cite reasons like lack of clarification from the National Medical Commission (NMC) or the absence of a Chairman and Board in the Council, etc.

As per the association, NMC guidelines state that 1year internship is allocated only to those students who returned back to their countries and compensated their missed classes. But students claim that APMC failed to implement the NMC guidelines which in turn affected more than 200 students. Even though they comply with the NMC guidelines, allegedly, they are being allotted 2-3 years of internship, in violation of the NMC directives, alleged the association.

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Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the foreign medical graduates in Andhra Pradesh were facing two issues- delay in getting permanent registration and being asked to undergo an additional internship period despite having compensated for their online medical education.

Around 150 students, who pursued their medical education from abroad and applied for permanent registration after completing their one-year internship back in May, had not been allotted the Permanent Registration.

Apart from this, the students further alleged that the junior students who cleared the FMGE recently were allotted 2-3 years of internship despite having a compensation certificate for the online classes.

They were demanding that the final registration be given to those who completed the 1-year internship and the internship allotment order be rectified for the juniors who have duly undergone compensatory classes.

Yesterday, the AIMSA FMSW submitted its demands to the APMC. These demands include issuance of Permanent Registrations for the FMGE December 2022 and FMGE June 2023 Batch, compliance with NMC notice dated 19.06.2024, registrations for students who graduated pre-COVID or entirely offline, recertification and internship allotments for FMGE June 2022 passouts, publication of FMG counselling guidelines, issuance of provisional registrations for current interns, equitable treatment in allotment orders and permanent registrations, appointments of APMC Chairman and full Board of council members etc.

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