With lack of clarity from NMC, students back from Ukraine depend on online classes | Education News,The Indian Express

Students are waiting for the union government to make its stand clear to the Supreme Court before deciding their future course of action.

With no clarity from India’s top medical education regulator and their respective universities, students who have come back from war-torn Ukraine continue to attend online classes for lack of other options.

The first- and second-year students cannot do much other than apply for NEET-UG again or go back to their universities in Ukraine that have assured normal functioning in the Western part of the country that is not under siege. Even for students who are allowed to transfer out, getting documents and transcripts from their universities is a challenge, coupled with higher fees in countries offering the same quality of education, the students said. 

The students The Indian Express spoke to said that they were awaiting the submission of final guidelines on the issue by the National Medical Commission (NMC) in the Supreme Court before taking a decision on what to do.

The Commission, on directions of the Supreme Court in April, proposed to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that the final year students be allowed to sit for the screening test, after clearing it they can complete their two-year internship in India itself on provisional registration, before getting the permanent license to practice medicine in the country.

The yet-to-be-approved proposal says that first- and second-year students could reappear in the NEET-UG test and start their education again in Indian colleges. These first-year students are not allowed to transfer to another university since they joined their medical programme after a new guideline came into effect in November 2021. According to the new guideline, foreign medical graduates have to complete their theoretical education, practical training, and a year of internship from the same institute. Although silent on third- and fourth-year students, the NMC proposal seems to imply that they should join equivalent medical courses in other countries.

https://indianexpress.com/article/education/with-lack-of-clarity-from-nmc-students-back-from-ukraine-depend-on-online-classes-8006222/


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