Foreign Medical Graduates Will Be Required To Take A Screening Test Within 10 Years Of Finishing Their Study

The country's top medical regulator announced Wednesday that foreign medical graduates must take the screening test, or the National Exit Test, which will replace it in the future, within 10 years of finishing their study.

At the moment, there is no time limit for taking the examination, which is held twice a year. Students from other nations who have completed their medical school must pass the screening test in order to practise medicine in the country.

In another notification to widen the scope of people who can study medicine, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has allowed students who have taken Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Biotechnology as additional subjects after finishing their boards will also be allowed to appear for the qualifying NEET-UG test.

The NMC also eased its 2021 regulations for further three months, allowing Ukrainian students to continue their medical study in other countries. This will assist students who began medical studies in the country after November 20, 2021, when the new regulations for foreign medical graduates went into effect.

The course, training, and internship must all be completed at the same university. The degree will be conferred by the universities where the students relocate, according to the NMC announcement.

For students who returned in the penultimate year of their education, the notice says there would be a requirement for two years of clerkship followed by one year of internship. For those who have already joined an internship, they may do one year of clerkship afterwards and then one year of internship to total three years of training.