Specialist DNB disadvantaged with new MCI equivalence norms: NBE, ANBAI officials tell MCI

New Delhi: While the latest regulations issued by the Medical Council of India (MCI) on Minimum Qualifications for Teachers in Medical Institutions call for MD-DNB equivalence to a certain extent, Super-speciality candidates pursuing their DNB from highly specialised yet smaller hospitals would be highly disadvantaged with the move. Such specialists would still have to do 2 years of additional residency, in order to be eligible to teach in medical colleges in India, doctors pointed out.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that with on November 1st, 2018, the MCI Board of Governors came out with an extraordinary gazette on the Minimum Qualifications for Teachers in Medical Institutions, 2018. Amongst other criteria, the notification specified that DNB in Broad Specialities and Super Specialities, which has been pursued from private hospitals having more than 500 beds and certain MCI qualified teacher strength would be deemed equivalent to MD/MD/DM/Mch from MCI recognised institutions. For institutions more than 100-bed strength, DNB passouts shall have to work for one additional year as a senior resident in an MCI recognized/permitted institution for equivalence with MD/MS/DM/M.Ch. Similarly, for DNB from less than 100 bedded hospitals, doctors would have to pursue a two-year residency for equivalence.