FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES

About:

• The regulations had in the recent past been a point of debate with relation to Indian students who were forced to return due to the Ukraine crisis.
• The Bench upheld the regulatory validity of the National Medical Commission (Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate) Regulations, 2021 and the National Medical Commission (Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship) Regulations, 2021.
• The first one requires the foreign medical graduates (FMGs)
  • to undergo a medical course for a minimum of 54 months and an internship for a minimum duration of 12 months in the same foreign medical institution;
  • to register with a professional regulatory body competent to grant licence in the same foreign country and further undergo a supervised 12-month internship in India after applying to the National Medical Commission.
• The second lists rigorous conditions for internship in India for the FMGs.