Medical students who returned from Ukraine, China and got degrees by June 30 will be allowed to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE), Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said in a letter to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. After qualifying the FMGE, the students will be required to undergo a Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years instead of the existing one year, as per the NMC scheme.
That, however, leaves “99 per cent of them in limbo,” said Tharoor. Sharing the letter on social media platform, Twitter, the MP wrote, “Just received this letter from Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya responding to my raising the issue of the predicament in which Indian medical students evacuated from Ukraine find themselves. I’m afraid it leaves 99 per cent of them in limbo.”
The health minister, in the letter, stated that the matter was examined in consultation with the National Medical Commission (NMC). The foreign medical students, and graduates are either covered under “Screening Test Regulations, 2002” or “Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations, 2021.”
“There are no such provisions in the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 and the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 as well as the Regulations to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to Indian medical colleges,” the letter read.