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Cabinet approves National Medical Commission Bill
Why in news
- Centre to introduce National Medical Commission Bill in the on-going session of the Parliament.
More in news
- The Bill seeks to repeal Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.
- The primary reason for protest against original version of the 2017 Bill was because it allowed AYUSH practitioners to prescribe allopathic medicines.
- However, the Bill lapsed with the dissolution of 16th Lok Sabha.
What the Current Bill Proposes
- National Exit Test (NEXT)
(1) It is to convert final year MBBS examination into a licentiate exam, which will be a requirement for doctors to practise medicine.
(2) To use the exam as an entrance to post-graduate medical courses.
(3) Act as a screening test for foreign medical graduates.
- Medical Council of India will be replaced with the National Medical Commission to regulate medical education in the country.
- National Medical Commission will have four autonomous Boards
(1) Undergraduate Medical Education Board
(2) Post-Graduate Medical Education Board
(3) Medical Assessment and Rating Board
(4) Ethics and Medical Registration Board
- To conduct National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) and common counselling for admissions to all institutions.
- Institutes of National Importance have been allowed to follow their own admission procedures similar to various All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh.
- The Commission would be responsible for regulating fees and all other charges for 50% of the seats in private medical colleges and deemed universities.
Significance of the Bill
- Ensure a dynamic and modern educational environment.
- Ensure transparency in admission process.
- Bring down admission fee.
- Decreasing the emphasis on physical infrastructure.
- Achieving the norms in global standards.
- Effective grievance redressal mechanism.
- About Medical Council of India
(1) Established in 1934 under the Indian Medical Council Act 1933.
(2) It prescribes uniform standards of higher qualification in medicine and recognition of medical qualification in India and abroad.
(2) Its Objectives are
- Maintain uniform standards of medical education both undergraduate and post graduate levels.
- Registration of Doctors.
- Recognition/ de-recognition of medical qualification of medical institution of India and Foreign.
Source
The Hindu