NMC: Covid duty part of internship

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, May 4

A day after medical interns were put on Covid management duties under the supervision of their faculty to augment the manpower to fight the pandemic, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued an advisory, saying that the duties performed by interns during their posting in different departments for Covid-19 management will be treated as the duty in those departments for purpose of compulsory rotating internship.

Internship is a phase of the mandatory rotational training of total 12 months in different departments wherein a medical graduate is expected to learn methods/modalities to actual practice of medical and healthcare and acquire skills under the seniors’ supervision so that he/she may become capable of functioning independently to get the MBBS degree.

The National Medical Commission has conveyed that posting in general medicine, including psychiatry, casualty /emergency medicine/critical care and community medicine/public health departments for Covid-19 management will be treated as an internship of a total of four-and-a-half-months.