NMC brings out new rules for medical colleges

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₹ 1 crore per violation on the college. In addition, a penalty of ₹ 5 lakh can be imposed against the faculty, dean, or the director for submitting false information, along with penal action for misconduct of professional ethics under the Registered Medical Practitioner Regulations.

Under the new regulations, all medical colleges are mandated to furnish an Annual Disclosure Report before the commission which shall contain information about physical infrastructure, qualified faculty, clinical material, methods and modes of assessment, grading of the students, and feedback from students among others. The rationale is to ensure high medical education quality standards in the country.

“For this purpose, the respective Board (PGMEB or UGMEB) will undertake the evaluation of the Annual Disclosure Report for verifying whether the medical college fulfils the required conditions prescribed by NMC. These include—verification of physical infrastructure; availability of required number of qualified faculty for actual teaching and research and to undertake necessary student learning activities on a regular and continued basis; availability of adequate clinical material in terms of number of patients of different specialties, variety of patients to fulfil all round training of students, number of variety of procedures, surgeries, laboratory investigations, radiological investigations and other relevant investigations; assessment of the teaching methodology adopted; the methods and modes of assessment, grading of the students; review of feedback from students; other parameters related to standards of medical education that may be added from time to time by the respective boards or NMC," said the notification.