NMC/National Medical Commission is a reality now. It has found its way from the cabinet without any debate or dissent! There is a provision for MBBS students to pass the EXIT-exam (as a part of NEET-PG). The students MUST pass the EXIT exam before they step into practice or join PG program....! The MCQ based EXIT exam for MBBS seems to be a ploy of the private/sub-standard medical colleges to legitimize their colleges.
The focus will thus shift on the poor young doctor who will run to a coaching center for the rote learning. An endless agony to pass the exams. A simple MCQ based test cannot assess who is a good or badly trained doctor. The private substandard medical colleges need to impart clinical skills as well and government methods devised in the EXIT exam to assess and quantify those. The EXIT exam if a must then it should be both subject knowledge and clinical skill at least like…
