The foreign medical graduates will now have to clear the National Exit Test (NEXT) instead of Foreign Medical Graduates Exam (FMGE) to be eligible for practicing in India. The health ministry is planning to merge FMGE with NEXT so as to streamline medical education thus maintaining uniformity of doctors practicing in India. Currently the foreign medical graduates are only required to clear the FMGE and show MCI the eligibility certificate to practice in India. Now the government is thinking of merging FMGE with NEXT and scrap off the MCI eligibility score and instead introduce NEET score for these graduates.
FMGE is conducted twice a year and requires 50% marks to clear and be eligible to practice in India. This NEXT proposal is a part of NMC Bill, 2018 which would be taken up in the parliament in the monsoon session. Source: Times Of India What is your opinion about this decision of…
