An undergraduate, who has completed his/her Internship, will need to clear this test before they can enroll in the Indian Medical Register. This test, or NEXT, originally known as the post-MBBS exit test, and which might be renamed as National Licentiate Examination fails to make sense to me . The health ministry of India has moved a cabinet note for tabling the NMC bill in the parliamentary session from July 17th, 2017. If passed, medical graduates from both India and abroad will have to clear this exam before they can start practicing medicine.
The results of this exam will also replace the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) for the post-graduate courses in the medical colleges. According to the bill, the National Licentiate Examination will become operational within three years from the date of its enactment, on a date notified by the Central Government. While I am…
