An official advisory has been issued by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to all the medical colleges, directing them to conduct the final year postgraduate broad speciality and super speciality exams at the earliest.
The advisory has been released amidst the declining trend of covid cases in most parts across the country. MK Ramesh, President, Postgraduate Medical Education Board has issued the advisory.
For the last one and half years, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions in all walks of life across the country. Expectedly the medical students had to endure the major brunt of this. The advisory said that the NEET 2021 was postponed, which delayed the arrival of a fresh batch of Postgraduate students.
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Further, the universities, may as per their discretion, adopt internal valuation of theory answer scripts by the institutions themselves. The earlier advisories regarding relaxation in the examination norms shall be in force for these examinations.
Due to a hike in the Covid-19 cases across India and constant lockdown, PG exams in several medical colleges across the country were postponed. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for postgraduate studies, or NEET PG 2021 was also postponed for at least four months from its original schedule of April 15. However, on May 3, 2021, the government announced that NEET PG will be deferred till August 31, 2021 as final year MBBS students will be engaged in the covid duty.
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Besides, the NMC also declared that the COVID-19 management will be treated as a compulsory internship for all the medical interns. Apart from NEET PG, many other entrance exams including INI CET 2021, JEE Mains were also deferred due to the same corona-led situation.
As the situation is getting back to normal, the NMC has issued a fresh advisory asking the college authorities to complete postgraduate broad speciality and super speciality exams at the earliest convenient time depending on the local COVID-19 situation.
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