PG Medical Education Board Announces Guidelines To Conduct Exams In Colleges

The Post Graduate Medical Education Board of the National Medical Commission has issued rules for the administration of medical examinations.

According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), the medical colleges will conduct exams in accordance with the PGMER guidelines and will keep a video record of the exam process as well as all relevant data about the examiners, including the examination process, details of the cases kept for the examination, and the students' theses.

The recommendations, according to the education board, will go into effect immediately for the purpose of assessing the examination as part of the inspection for recognition, recognition against increasing intake, and renewal of recognition of medical programmes.

There will be no physical or online inspection of the exam process and the medical colleges can go ahead with the conduct of examination as per schedule, it added.