OOPS: NBE issues newspaper Advertisements on NEET PG 2023 registrations, retracts later

New Delhi: The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has a major OOPS moment today when after releasing newspaper notifications on NEET PG 2023, the NBE later withdrew it partly. Initially NBE announced the beginning of the date regarding online application for NEET PG 2023 in its newspaper advertisement as January 5th but later withdrew the same in its notice published on the natboard website.

Publishing the details regarding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test- Post Graduate (NEET-PG) 2023 in a leading newspaper, NBE had earlier announced that NEET PG 2023 would be conducted on March 5 of this year.

It had also mentioned that the online submission of the application form can be made from 5th January 2023 (3 PM Onwards) to 25th January 2023 (Till 11: 55 PM). The date of publication of results had been mentioned to be March 31, 2023.

According to the newspaper advertisement, January 5, i.e. today was also the date for publication of the Information Bulletin for NEET PG 2023. Soon, the news became viral and candidates started to expect the opening of portal for online submission of applications.

However, on its official website (https://www.natboard.edu.in), NBEMS issued another notice and clarified about the matter. Even though NBE confirmed that NEET PG 2023 would be conducted on March 5, 2023, it changed its previous announcement regarding the submission of online application from January 5.

"The notification for inviting online applications for NEET-PG 2023 shall be published in coming days. Please refer to the NBEMS website https://natboard.edu.in periodically in this regard," NBE mentioned in the notice.

"Kindly ignore the advertisement published in some newspapers today informing that the NEET-PG 2023 applications are invited from 5th January 2023 onwards," it further added.

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Medical Dialogues had earlier reported about the major developement that NBEMS may cease to exist soon since the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to replace it with a new autonomous board under the National Medical Commission i.e. Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (BEMS). This will be the very body that will be in charge of Conducting the incumbent National Exit Test (NEXT)

Proposing amendments to the existing National Medical Commission (NMC) Act 2019, the Health Ministry has decided to incorporate the Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (BEMS) as the Fifth Autonomous Board under the National Medical Commission (NMC), which is the apex medical education regulatory body.

Apart from conducting NEXT, the new proposed NMC Board will also accredit medical institutions for conducting Diploma, Diplomate and Fellowship post graduate and Diplomate and Fellowship super-speciality courses, determine the minimum requirements and standards for conducting Diploma, Diplomate, and Fellowship Postgraduate and Diplomate and Fellowship Super-speciality courses and their examinations in medical institution, in accordance with the regulations made under the Act, conduct exit examinations for award of Diploma, Diplomate and Fellowship qualifications, conduct any such examinations of any institution as assigned to it by the Commission or by the Central government, and grant degree and diploma for Diplomate and Fellowship qualifications.

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