Soon, 1-year uniform mandatory training likely for FMG candidates with MBBS from Abroad

New Delhi: Graduates with MBBS from abroad may soon have to undergo mandatory 1-year training, as the Medical Council of India (MCI) is mulling to bring uniform policies training of such candidates across the country. For the same, the Medical Council of India is also going to set up skill laboratories for training such candidates across the country. 

The observations to this effect were recently made in one of the meetings of the Board of Governors in Supersession of the Medical Council of India ( MCI BOG) where it went through the issue of Establishment of Skill Laboratories for the training of MBBS students and Foreign Medical Graduates as well as Skills Training Curriculum for Foreign Medical Graduates

The Board of Governors considered a various set of communications received from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and decided that appropriate institutes would be identified for setting up of skill labs for training students pursuing medical degrees from abroad.

The MCI BOG further noted that some private organisations have offered such training on their own. BoG advised to take further steps for the regulation of such courses while providing them technical support if required.