NMC to start super speciality courses of academic session 2021 on April 18, 2022

NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has decided to start the 2021 academic session for the super speciality courses on April 18, 2022. The academic curriculum of the super speciality courses is scheduled to conclude by March 31, 2025.

According to a statement from the NMC, postgraduate students should complete the required period of 36 months to complete the course. The decision to start the super speciality courses for the academic session on April 18, 2022, is in the backdrop of the delay caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There has been a delay in the starting of academic session and duration of the Super Speciality Courses on account of the COVID Pandemic in the year 2021. Therefore, the National Medical Commission has decided that the academic session of the Super Speciality Courses for the year 2021 shall commence from 18th April 2022," NMC said.

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The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) had previously paused choice filling for NEET-super speciality counselling as a few super speciality seats of colleges were being added to the seat matrix. The new NEET SS seats were notified by MCC a day after the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) wrote to the director-general of Health Services bringing to attention the incomplete seat matrix published for NEET SS Counselling 2021.

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