Centre ropes in IIM-A for restructuring India’s apex medical education regulator

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Union health and family welfare ministry has enlisted Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) for restructuring and reforming the country’s apex medical education regulator—-National Medical Commission (NMC), three officials familiar with the matter said. A senior faculty member of IIM-A, at the request of the health ministry, has spoken to all the four boards at NMC—the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB), Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) and Medical Assessment Rating Board (MARB), and has prepared a report on how to improve the NMC’s day-to-day-functioning and address the challenges.

The new plan could involve appointing individual secretaries for each of the four boards. “A committee has been constituted by the government, and they invited IIM-A to study the gaps in the functioning of the NMC. Some major improvements may be seen in the NMC structure and certain changes may also be seen in the NMC Act.

There is also a plan to have secretaries for each of the four different boards," said the first of the three officials cited earlier, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. However, the plan is not final and is still under consideration, the official added. Also read | NMC to start face authentication of medical college faculty to mark attendance after spate of fake thumb prints The move follows a Mint report in September about the internal crisis at NMC, with its four autonomous boards working at cross purposes.