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The National Medical Commission has announced 43,250 CRMI internship slots for the 2026–27 academic year to address the shortage of training seats for foreign medical graduates. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh received significant allocations to help clear the backlog of eligible FMGs.

A confrontation has erupted between the Telangana government and the medical fraternity over G.O.Ms.No.229, which expands the Telangana Medical Council by adding four ex-officio members. Doctors’ associations, including HRDA and TJUDA, allege the move undermines elected representatives and paves the way for bureaucratic dominance, crippling the council’s anti-quackery drive.

The National Medical Commission has directed all government and private medical colleges to secure campuses against stray dogs within eight weeks, following Supreme Court instructions, and mandated round-the-clock availability of anti-rabies vaccines and immunoglobulins.

The National Medical Commission has asked medical colleges to form committees to monitor prescription practices and ensure legible handwriting. Doctors have been advised to write generic drug names clearly, while experts stress transparency to improve patient safety.

Telangana High Court quashed FIRs against BAMS doctors for prescribing allopathic medicines, ruling such practice does not constitute cheating. Alleged professional misconduct can be addressed by AYUSH authority through departmental action

The government told the Rajya Sabha that the NMC has not frozen approvals for new medical colleges or MBBS seats for 2025–26. Minister Anupriya Patel said seat expansion continues under a structured, transparent evaluation process involving expert scrutiny and compliance checks

To eliminate the practice of hiring fake patients, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has mandated that all teaching hospitals register patients under ABHA-ID. The move aims to ensure clinical record authenticity and links future MBBS and PG seat approvals to verified patient data

To meet National Medical Commission standards, Telangana has set up 10 Medical College Monitoring Committees. These will inspect new government medical colleges for infrastructure, staffing, and operations, with reports due by June 30 to ensure readiness for upcoming inspections

The NMC has issued an advisory, listing out important points that need to be kept in mind while taking admission in a medical course in India and the rules to be followed by the students who intend to pursue medical education in foreign countries

According to members of TSMC who were part of the raids, the quacks also did not have a proper way to deal with bio medical waste as they were discarded on roads, along with the normal domestic waste

For registration, doctors would need Aadhaar ID, digital copy of MBBS degree certificate, registration certificate of State Medical Council/Medical Council of India where they got registered the first time

Despite getting permission for eight new government medical colleges, the government could not ensure that medical aspirants of the State had access to 800 MBBS seats this academic year

The National Medical Council (NMC) grants Siddipet Government Medical College new PG courses in Pediatrics, Anesthesia, and Dermatology, adding 14 seats to the existing 58 seats.

The initiative to establish tobacco cessation centres is to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure by integrating specialized services for tobacco cessation into the educational and healthcare framework says National Medical Commission.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has expanded the eligibility criteria for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET 2024 examination.

This implies that the stage is set for Telangana to have eight more medical colleges — in Jogulamba Gadwal, Narayanpet, Mulugu, Warangal, Medak, Yadadri Bhongir, Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri — in the coming academic year, i.e. 2024-25.

It will be an advantage to students in the test scheduled for May 5, 2024

Mancherial: Stage is set for starting the newly created government medical college of Mancherial district from this academic year 2022-23, bringing respite to local students of medicine course. The college, one of the eight sanctioned in different parts of Telangana in 2021, is going to be operated in temporary structures built in the existing agriculture […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has directed National Medical Commission (NMC) to conduct a special mop-up round to fill up the remaining super specialty seats. There are 930 super speciality seats which include 534 D.M/M.Ch and 396 DNB seats are still lying vacant after two rounds of counselling and one mop-up round of counselling. […]

Hyderabad: With travel restrictions to other countries slowly easing, fraudsters have intensified their efforts to trap the gullible. One of the latest attempts is a message that is being circulated in the name of the National Medical Commission, apparently targeting students studying in foreign medical institutions. As per the notice, students who commenced studying in […]