The National Medical Commission (NMC) Tuesday released the Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) Curriculum Regulations 2023. The regulations are in effect from August 1. As per the regulations, universities shall organise admission timing and process in such a way that the first professional year commences by August 1 of each year from the academic year 2024-25. There shall be no admission for any academic session beyond August 30. Institutions granting admission beyond the aforementioned dates will be liable to face actions prescribed by NMC. Students will have to appear for university exams at the end of each professional year. If they fail to clear university, they will have to appear for supplementary exams. The supplementary exams and their results shall be processed within 3-6 weeks from the date of declaration of main exam results. It is being done, “so that the candidates, who pass, can join the main batch for progression.” “If the candidate fails in the supplementary examination of the first MBBS, they shall join the batch of the next academic /subsequent year. There shall be no supplementary batches. Partial attendance of examination in any subject shall be counted as an attempt,” read the notification. As per the curriculum, students will study Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry in the first professional year. In the second year, they will be studying Pathology, Microbiology and Pharmacology. In the third year, there will be Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Community Medicine, Oro-Rhinolaryngology (ENT) and Ophthalmology. Students will be studying General Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology, Psychiatry, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics (including Trauma), Anaesthesiology and Radiodiagnosis. “The undergraduate medical education programme is designed with a goal to create an "lndian Medical Graduate" (IMG) possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and responsiveness, so that she or he may function appropriately and effectively as a physician of first contact of the community while being globally relevant,” read the official notification. The NMC released these guidelines on June 12 as a part of Graduate Medical Education Regulations 2023 but withdrew them on June 23. They later sought comments from the stakeholders regarding the same. The regulations are available on the official website— nmc.org.in.
