NMC asks medical colleges for details of fellowships for FMGs to grant temporary registration

NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has asked the medical colleges and institutes to upload the details of fellowship programmes for foreign medical graduates including course content, duration, fee etc. on their official websites. The Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRC) of NMC will verify these details while processing the applications for granting temporary registration to the FMGs.

NMC referred to the provisions made in the “Registration of Medical Practitioners and License to Practice Medicine Regulation 2023” for offering fellowship, clinical training, clinical research or observership to foreign nationals. As per the provisions, FMGs can be allowed to do clinical training in India to enhance their skills and competence in any institute.

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The institutes offering the training will have to apply to the EMRC with the name and registration certificate of the foreign citizen (if applicable), information related to course content, duration, training facilities, teaching, and infrastructure facilities on the website, and details of fee charged by the institute.

“In view of the above in order to streamline the process of timely grant of temporary registration to foreign medical practitioners the following should be ensured,” NMC said and asked medical colleges to have the information ready at the time of processing the application for the registration.

The commission said that failure to provide the details will result in delay in grant of temporary registration. The registration will be provided for a maximum period of 12 months followed by a cooling off period of one year.