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NMC chief Dr Abhijat Sheth said medical seats are set to rise by about 8,000 this year despite CBI-linked disruptions. Inspections are underway, PG counselling begins September, while NExT exam remains delayed until consensus is achieved among stakeholders

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued strict guidelines restricting live broadcasts of surgeries, emphasising patient safety and ethical medical education. The new rules advocate safer alternatives like recorded videos, wet labs, and simulation-based methods for medical training.

The Telangana State government has promoted 309 Associate Professors from 33 specialty health departments to Professors, assigning them to newly established medical colleges and teaching hospitals across the state.

The Telangana Health Department has transferred 44 senior-grade Professors from major tertiary hospitals to peripheral medical colleges. Doctors fear this could affect healthcare quality and postgraduate training in city hospitals, with few qualified replacements available in the short term

Government teaching hospitals in Telangana face a critical shortage of Assistant Professors, affecting both patient care and medical education. With NMC inspections ongoing and MBBS seats at risk, junior doctors are pushing for immediate recruitment and better faculty retention policies.

The NMC has instructed medical colleges, including AIIMS Bibinagar and AFMC, to include details of the PM Vidyalaxmi education loan scheme in their brochures to help economically weaker students access collateral-free financial aid for pursuing MBBS.

Government medical colleges in Telangana are facing a critical shortage of cadavers, hampering anatomy education and surgical training. Despite guidelines and body donation rules, limited resources and legal concerns are affecting students' access to hands-on learning experiences.

During the same time frame, about 1,116 medical students, including 160 MBBS and 956 PG students, dropped out of their respective medical programs

The Government doctors from Telangana State have written a letter to Chairman, NMC, urging him to reconsider or exempt doctors from mandatory use of facial Aadhar-Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS).

At present, all private/ government medical colleges in the country are marking attendance of faculty and staff through AEBAS (Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System) system.

With the present senior officer bearers of the Medical Council recognizing the need to curtail quackery, this is for the first time in Telangana State that a concerted effort has been launched in collaboration with TS Drug Control Administration (TSDCA) to take legal action on individuals with no MBBS degree but practicing allopathy.

Despite clear regulations, lapses in compliance have been observed in medical colleges across the country, says National Medical Commission

The National Medical Commission (NMC) in an advisory on Wednesday made it clear that MBBS aspirants desirous to obtain the medical qualification from any foreign medical institutions or universities and thereafter practice allopathy in India have to ensure that all conditions prescribed Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiates (FMGL) Regulations, 2021 are fulfilled fulfilled before taking admission.

The website of medical institutions should have a list of faculty under each medical department including the names of the medical superintendent, principal and dean.

The teaching faculty under TTGDA also demanded a government order providing additional allowance to faculty posted in district hospitals, within a week.

National Medical Commission’s guidelines to prevent the misuse of antibiotics must be strictly adhered to

Facilitated by Neo Consultancy and supported by a consortium of government bodies and institutions, the students found opportunity in Uzbekistan, which enabled them to complete their MBBS degree.

The Foreign Medical Graduation Examination Screening Test is a licensure examination conducted by NMC that allows Indian students who have completed their MBBS from foreign universities to practice medicine in India

Submission of the video recordings is necessary for the grant of renewal of permissions to the medical college, NMC said

For the past few years, live broadcasting of complicated surgeries from private hospitals to CME programmes, have become normalized.