The blog of the Doctors from Madurai Medical College - 1973 Batch-mates

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Exam for Indian Medical Graduate status & PG course

Recently, President of Medical Council of India, Dr.Sarin has proposed to conduct licentiate exams after internship of MBBS students for qualifying to the Indian Medical Graduate status (IMG). It is said that this exam will give more weightage in ranking for PG courses, and thus will lead to scrapping of the existing PG entrance exams. By 2017 one could see this exam made mandatory. Read the following for further details and other plans of MCI regarding PG courses:
MCI to introduce exam for MBBS graduates to qualify for degree - (1)
MCI plans to scrap PG exam - (1)