BOG MCI Will Help Foreign Medical Graduates To Clear Exam In India For Registration

Nearly 85 percent of students with a foreign MBBS degree have failed to clear an exam that grants them the licence to practice in India, data shows. Roughly 61,500 foreign MBBS graduates appeared for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) conducted by the National Board of Examination between 2015 and 2018, of which only around 8,700 were able to qualify. A majority of these are Indian students who went abroad to get an MBBS after failing to secure a seat in their home country.

All foreign MBBS degree holders, except those from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, need to clear the FMGE in order to practise in India. Over the past six years, the pass percentage for students who cleared the FMGE ranged from a high of 28.29 in 2012-13 to a low of 9.44 in 2016-17, according to a report recently published. In fact, not a single MBBS graduate…