Foreign medical graduates from Ukraine allowed to complete course, 2 years internship compulsory: Govt

Among them, 2,510 students are currently in Ukraine studying in offline mode, 2,952 students are studying in online mode and 242 students are studying in third countries under the academic mobility programme.

5,715 Indian students are enrolled in Ukrainian universities in semester starting September 2023. Express Photo by Harmeet Sodhi/ representational image

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has allowed foreign medical graduates (FMGs) from Ukraine to complete their remaining courses from different countries as a one-time opportunity, the Rajya Sabha was informed by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a written reply on Tuesday.

Keeping the hardships faced by medical students who returned to the country due to the war in Ukraine, the NMC has allowed the Indian students who were in the last year of their undergraduate medicine course and have subsequently completed their studies and granted a certificate of completion of course/degree on or before June 30, 2022, to appear in the FMG examination. However, after qualifying the exam, such foreign medical graduates are required to undergo a compulsory rotating medical internship (CRMI) for two years enabling them for registration.

Among them, 2,510 students are currently in Ukraine studying in offline mode, 2,952 students are studying in online mode and 242 students are studying in third countries under the academic mobility programme, Pawar informed.

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Through a notice issued on November 22,2023, the NMC, the apex medical education regulator in India, has extended the relaxation to such students for three months.

Further, according to the Ministry of External Affairs, 5,715 Indian students are enrolled in Ukrainian universities in the semester starting September 2023.

To increase the opportunities for medical education in India, the government has increased the number of medical colleges and MBBS seats. Under the centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) for establishing new medical colleges by upgrading district/ referral hospital, 157 new medical colleges have been approved, out of which 108 are already functional.

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The minister also informed an increase of 82 per cent in medical colleges from 387 before 2014 to 706 as of now. Further, there is an increase of 112 per cent in MBBS seats from 51,348 before 2014 to 1,08,848 as of now.

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