Demand for Percentile based evaluation of FMGE gains momentum
New Delhi: With a dismal pass percentage in the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE) that prevents many Foreign Medical graduates who have done their MBBS from abroad from practicing in India, the demand for having a percentile-based evaluation for the exam rather than a percentage-based one is slowly gaining momentum.
The issue was recently raised by the Association of MD Physicians, which had first approached the Supreme Court and is now approaching the National Medical Commission (NMC) with the said demand
Regulations require that foreign medical graduates holding medical qualifications equivalent to MBBS from recognized medical colleges outside India have to clear the FMGE exam in order to practice in India. The FMGE guidelines were laid down by the Supreme Court way back in 2004.
The exam, one the other hand, is notorious for its dismal pass percentages.
Doctors have now pointed out that while all the other exams including NEET and NEET PG have a percentile-based evaluation, this is the only exam that has a percentage-based system, hence the demand that the same yardstick be applied to this exam as per other exams
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