Attention DNB, DrNB candidates and aspirants: NBE announces major changes in process of payment of course fee

New Delhi: Announcing major changes in the process of fee payment by doctors for various National Board of Examination (NBE) courses, including DNB, DrNB, FNB as well as Diploma courses, the NBE has informed that it will charge only the fee for the first year, while the remaining fee has to be directly paid to the institution.

With this, the NATBOAD has changed its earlier practice of fee collection, where it collected the fee for all years of training in one go, and transferred the fee thereafter to the participating institutions. NBE has also updated the modalities of fee payment by candidates who are already enrolled in NBEMS courses as well as in-service candidates.

Through a recent notice, the National Board of Examination (NBE) has informed to NBEMS Accredited Hospitals and all NBEMS trainees about the Payment of Annual Course Fee by NBEMS Trainees.

" Vide NBEMS public notices dated 22.12.2020, 15,01.2021, 15.02.2021, 19.08.2021 and 21.01.2022, NBEMS has been collecting the course fee from all the ongoing trainees (of all years of training) of DNB/DrNB/FNB/Diploma courses. This course fee was thereafter transferred back to the respective hospitals in two six monthly instalments," NBE informed in its notice

"In supersession of all the above public notices, NBEMS from 2024 Admission Session will be collecting the course fee only for the first year of the course (DNB/DrNB/FNB/Diploma). This course fee collection will be done at the time of counseling. This course fee will be transferred back to the hospital in one single instalment after the joining of the candidate in the allotted hospital is confirmed," the NBE added

The course fee for the remaining years of training will be paid by the candidates directly to the hospital with no involvement of NBEMS in the same.

For existing and inservice candidates, the following rules will be followed:

• Candidates who have joined NBEMS courses in 2023 are required to pay their second and third-year course fee directly to the hospital when such fee is payable.
• Similarly, the candidates of 2021 and 2022 Admission Session are required to pay their 3rd year course fee directly to the hospital when such fee is payable (the 2nd year course fee is to be paid to NBEMS in 2023).
• The candidates of Post MBBS-Direct 6-year course for 2019 Admission Session are required to pay their 5th year fee to NBEMS (payable in 2023) and 6th year fee to their training institute. Similarly, the candidates of Post MBBS-Direct 6-year course for 2020  Admission Session are required to pay their 4th year course fee to NBEMS (payable in 2023) and 5th and 6th year course fee to their training institute.
• NBEMS trainees who have joined the seats reserved for “In-service” doctors in various NBEMS Accredited Hospitals of the State Government / Armed Forces / Railways / PSU and ESIC are not required to pay the Annual Course Fee to NBEMS. Instead, the Annual Course Fee has to be paid to their respective hospitals as per policy and rules as applicable to these hospitals.
• First year course fee shall be refunded back to the candidate if during the upgradation process of counseling, the candidate gets some another seat (MD/MS) but DNB seat in included in subsequent rounds of Counseling. The Refund process of such candidates shall be started only after the completion of the Counseling of the concerned admission session.

For any queries, please write to NBEMS through the Communication Web Portal under the “Contact Us” menu on NBEMS website.

To view the official Notice, Click here : https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/natboard-datapublicnoticenotice202310201721-223451.pdf