The government will soon make the National Eligibility cum and Entrance Test mandatory for even those students who want to pursue medicine abroad from this year. This move was taken with the aim of ensuring that only good quality students should study medicine in foreign universities. Presently, medical graduates from abroad must pass the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination conducted by the MCI for registering as doctors in India. But only 10-15% of these graduates can clear the MCI licentiate examination every year.
This denotes the quality of students and standard of medical education they receive in other countries. The newly defined MCI’s rule says that only those students who are in top 50 percentile of NEET will be eligible to opt for medical education outside India. Source: New Indian Express Will this move improve the quality of medical education in India?
