National Medical Commission eases norms for PG students to appear in exams

Faridkot, December 30

Keeping in view increased work load on postgraduate (PG) medical students and their restricted movement due to the Covid pandemic, the Postgraduate Medical Education Board of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has announced to relax conditions regarding poster presentation and research paper presentation, before appearing in PG medical examinations.

In view of the pandemic, the board in its meeting had decided to relax the said portion of the regulation and allow the postgraduate students of batch 2019-20 only, in broad specialties/super specialties, to be eligible to appear for their PG exams, said Dr Vijay Oza, member, Postgraduate Medical Education Board.

As per the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, a student of a postgraduate medical degree course in broad specialties/super specialties needs to present one poster presentation and one research paper which should be published/accepted for publication/sent for publication during the period of his/her postgraduate studies so as to make him eligible to appear in the postgraduate degree examination.

After the Covid outbreak, while PG medical students were overburdened with Covid-related duties, most of them could not travel to participate in conferences, thus making it difficult for them to make poster presentation and represent one research paper to make them eligible for PG medical examinations.

During the Covid , most of the postgraduate medical students in the medical institutes were diverted to Covid isolation wards and ICUs. — TNS