Centre proposes common MBBS exit exam

• 30 Jan, 2020

In an offer to streamline medical education in the nation, the Union government intends to convert the final year examination of the MBBS course into a licentiate examination, which will likewise be used for entrance into postgraduate medicinal courses, and go about as a screening test for foreign medical alumni. It will be known as the National Exit Test (NEXT).

These proposals are a part of the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill endorsed by the Cabinet. Whenever established, the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 would be revoked. The present Medical Council of India would be replaced by a National Medical Commission.

The Commission will have four autonomous boards: Medical Assessment and Rating Board, Undergraduate Medical Education Board, Post-Graduate Medical Education Board, and Ethics and Medical Registration Board. It will likewise be responsible for controlling fees and every other charge for half of the seats in private medicinal schools and deemed universities.

The Bill proposes to bring together all the entrance procedures for medical courses. NEXT, just as NEET – the common entrance test for MBBS admissions – jas well as admission counseling will currently apply to AIIMS and different institutes that have followed their own procedures so far.

Purpose of NEXT: An Overview

The reason for NEXT as proposed will be to manage the following changes in the face of medical study in India:

• NEXT will implement the conceptual understanding and skills relating to the problem-solving of final year MBBS students in a progressively practical aspect. In other words, with the substitution of final year MBBS exams, held by individual MBBS universities/colleges, with one common test NEXT, increasingly refined aspirants will be shortlisted and picked for higher studies in medical sciences in India.
• NEXT may turn into a mandatory examination to be attempted by all of those Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) aspirants instead of exactly the same FMGE. As of recently, graduates who accomplished their graduate-level degree from outside India but wanted to proceed with their practice in India needed to show up for FMGE. Presently, with the proposed execution of NEXT, it is expected that FMGE will be subsumed with NEXT. To clarify further, it is accepted that FMGE will be merged in with NEXT for the Foreign Graduate Degree holders in order to give them the permit to practice medicine in India post the completion of their MBBS equal graduate-level degree.
• NEXT is proposed to turn into an examination equivalent to NEET for postgraduate medical courses across India.
• The proposed bill is relied upon to regulate NEXT as an exit examination that will conduct common counseling for admission into MBBS UG level and PG level medical courses.
• As proposed, through NEXT 50% of the seats in the postgraduate under All India Quota seats will fall under the NEXT exam clearance. This specific reservation will be made for the government medicinal officials.
• In lieu of the above-said point, it is recommended that with the execution of the NEXT exit exam, candidates once clearing their MBBS examination will have to work for 3 years in a rural/ancestral region. Additionally, post finishing PG, candidates may need to work for another time of 3 years under a similar build, i.e., in remote and/or troublesome territories.
• As expressed in the official notification, the screening test for foreign MBBS graduates willing to get temporary or permanent registration with the Medical Council of India (MCI) or State Medical Council (SMC) in India will be terminated. NEXT for Indian applicants studied from abroad will fill in as a screening test rather than the prior MCI Screening Test.

Merits of NEXT

• Removal of the dearth of medical practitioners

According to our estimation dependent on a couple of verifiable information, India creates generally around 60,000 MBBS graduates yearly. Considering the information, there is as yet a deficiency of good and skilled doctors in our medical sector. As expressed above, with the leg of execution of the National Exit Examination, this shortage of trained and expert doctors should be possible away.

• Uniformity in MBBS Graduates

With the beginning of NEXT in the final year MBBS examination, it is accepted that consistency as far as prepared MBBS graduates can be accomplished through the span of time. As is proposed, NEXT will be planned in such a path in order to test both the clinical jas well as written attributes required in an MBBS graduate.

• No MCI Eligibility Screening for Foreign Graduates

It is expected that with the guideline of NEXT, foreign MBBS graduates prior needed to show up for a screening test so as to show verify their eligibility. Presently, as proposed, such applicants have finished their graduation in medical science (MBBS or comparable) probably won't need to show up for the grand documentation process. Making NEET score more significant will help spare the unnecessary step that was taken by such candidates thereby saving general time in their admission procedure.

• Quality Medical Facilities in Rural Areas

As it has been proffered by under the NMC bill, NEXT for MBBS will help start the act of skilled and capable doctors willing to render their services in the rural areas. As known across India, rural divisions and remote zones are untouched by good medical services. Lives are lost to the detriment of no medical facility. Forcing NEXT for MBBS with the proposition of serving at least three years in the rural/remote territories of India will without a doubt improve and give at any rate the essential required medicinal treatment.

• Help Build an International Framework

Putting NEXT for MBBS in practice will guarantee that India follows on the way of refined global medical services. As universal modules of medical mechanisms are known for rendering the safety of patients and the quality of medical services, following a comparable structure will guarantee India's increase medicinal acknowledgment even more.

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