MCI PG Medical Education Regulations, 2000 Notified

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October 26, 2000

The Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations have been revised in tune with the advances taking place in the field of Medical Education and Medical Technology across the world. The Regulations called "Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000" were notified by the Medical Council of India after getting approval from the Central Government. These Regulations have been revised after a gap of 29 years.

A clause has been added in the new Regulations for allowing non-teaching institutions in Government sector to start PG courses. In the earlier Regulations, the medical colleges recognised for running MBBS courses were only eligible to start the PG courses.

Under the new Regulations, the training period for Super-Speciality courses has been fixed as 3 years after MD/MS. According to old Regulations, it was 2 years after MD/MS. The selection process of Post-Graduate students has also been dileneated. Now, the students can be admitted either on the basis of competitive test conducted by State Governments or other Competent Authority at both State level and Centre level or on the basis of individual performance at MBBS examination. Earlier, the students were selected strictly on the basis of merit judged on the basis of academic record in the Under-Graduate course. Keeping in view the importance of Post-Graduate Medical Education, the Teacher-Student ratio has also been revised. Some of the P.G. courses like Bio-Statistics, Immunology and Allergy, Emergency Medicine etc. were deleted from the earlier regulations as these have already been included in the other related specialities. Some of the courses have been combined into one speciality like Dermatology/STD/Leprosy and Cardio-Thoracic Surgery/Vascular Surgery etc. New specialities like diploma in Marine Medicine and super spcialities like DM Neo-Natology, Neuro-Radiology have been added to list of courses for which PG training can be given.