Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000
(1) These regulations may be called the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000.
(2) They shall come, into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
(i) Postgraduate Medical. Education in, broad specialities shall be of three years duration in the case of degree course and two years in the case of Diploma course after MBBS and in the case of super specialities the duration, shall be of three years after MD/MS 1[x x x x].
(ii) Postgraduate curriculum shall be competency based.
(iii) Learning in postgraduate programme shall be essentially autonomous and self directed.
(iv) A combination of both formative and summative assessment is vital for the successful completion of the PG programme.
(v) A modular approach to the course curriculum is essential for achieving a systematic exposure to the 2[various areas concerned with the discipline].
(vi) The training of PG students shall involve learning experiences 'derived from' or 'targeted to' the needs of the community. It shall, therefore, be necessary to expose the students to community based activities.
The goal of postgraduate medical education shall be to produce competent specialists and/or Medical teachers--
(i) who shall recognise the health needs of the community, and carry out professional obligations, ethically and in keeping with the objectives of the national health policy;
(ii) who shall have mastered, most of the competencies, pertaining to the speciality, that are required to be practiced at the secondary and the tertiary levels of the health care delivery system;
(iii) who shall be aware of the contemporary advances and developments in the discipline concerned;
(iv) who shall have acquired a spirit of scientific inquiry and is oriented to the principles of research methodology and epidemiology; and
(v) who shall have acquired the basic skills in teaching of the medical and paramedical professionals.
At the end of the postgraduate training in the discipline concerned the student shall be able to:
(i) Recognise the importance of the concerned speciality in the context of the health needs of the 'community and the national priorities in the health sector.
(ii) Practice the speciality concerned ethically and in step with the principles of primary health care.
(iii) Demonstrate sufficient understanding of the basic sciences relevant to the concerned speciality.
(iv) Identify social, economic, environmental, biological and emotional determinants of health in a given case, and take them into account while planning therapeutic, rehabilitative, preventive and promotive measures/strategies.
(v) Diagnose and manage majority of the conditions in the speciality concerned on the basis' of clinical assessment, and appropriately selected and conducted investigations.
(vi) Plan and advise measures for the prevention and rehabilitation of patients suffer
Keeping in view the general objectives of postgraduate training, each discipline shall aim at development of specific competencies which shall be defined and spelt out in clear terms. Each department shall produce a statement and bring it to the notice of the trainees in the beginning of the programme so that he or she can direct the efforts towards the attainment of these competencies.
The major components of the Postgraduate curriculum shall be:
Theoretical knowledge
Practical and clinical Skills
1[Writing Thesis/Research articles].
Attitudes including communication skills.
2[Training in Research Methodology, Medical Ethics and Medicolegal aspects].
2[(1) An institution intending to start a Postgraduate Medical Education Course or to increase the annual intake capacity in an already ongoing course shall obtain the prior permission of the Central Government under Section 10-A of the Act. The prior permission granted by the Central Government for Postgraduate Degree/Postgraduate Diploma Courses shall be for four and three academic years respectively:
Provided that it shall be incumbent upon Medical Colleges/Medical Institutions to make an application for starting of Postgraduate medical education courses within three years of grant of recognition, i.e., three years from the date of inclusion of the MBBS qualification awarded by the Medical College in the First Schedule of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. Failure to make an application for starting of postgraduate courses within the stipulated time shall entail the withdrawal of recognition of MBBS qualification:
Provided further that a Medical
The nomenclature of postgraduate medical courses shall be as provided in the Schedule annexed to these regulations:
Provided that in the case of postgraduate medical degree and diploma courses instituted prior to the commencement of these Regulations with the approval of the Medical Council of India and which have not been included in these regulations, the institutions concerned shall continue such courses till the students admitted complete the said courses.
1[The Medical Institution recognized under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 for running postgraduate courses prior to the commencement of the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Act, 1993; the Medical Colleges recognised for running Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course; and the Medical Institutions established by the Central Government for the purpose of imparting postgraduate medical education shall be eligible for starting a postgraduate medical education course or to increase the intake capacity in any already ongoing Postgraduate Medical Education Course:
Provided that it shall be permissible for Medical Colleges not yet recognized for the award of MBBS degree under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 to apply for starting of a Postgraduate medical education course in pre clinical and para clinical subjects, namely, Anatomy; Physiology; Biochemistry; Pharmacology; Pathology; Microbiology; Forensic Medicine; and Community Medicine
(1) There shall be a uniform entrance examination to all medical educational institutions at the postgraduate level namely 'National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test' for admission to postgraduate courses in each academic year and shall be conducted under the overall supervision of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.
(2) The "designated authority" to conduct the 'National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test' shall be the National Board of Examination or any other body/organisation so designated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
(3) In order to be eligible for admission to Postgraduate Course for an academic year, it shall be necessary for a candidate to obtain minimum of marks at 50th percentile in the 'National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate courses' held for the said academic year. However, in respect of candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, the minimum
(1) There shall be a common counselling for admission to all Postgraduate Courses (Diploma/MD/MS/DM/M.Ch.) in all Medical Educational Institutions on the basis of merit list of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test.
2[(2) The Designated Authority for counselling for the 50% All India Quota seats of the contributing States, as per the existing scheme for Diploma and M.D./M.S. courses shall be the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Further, the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India shall conduct counselling for all postgraduate courses [Diploma, M.D./M.S., D.M./M.Ch.] in Medical Educational Institutions of the Central Government, Universities established by an Act of Parliament and the Deemed Universities. Furthermore, the Directorate General of Health Services shall conduct the counselling for all Superspecialty courses (D.M./M.Ch.) in M
The period of training for obtaining these degrees shall be three completed years including the period of examination:
Provided that in the case of students 1[possessing] a recognised two year postgraduate diploma course in the same subject, the period of training, including the period of examination, shall be two years.
2[The period of training for obtaining these Degrees shall be three completed years including the examination period:]
3[Provided that where an institution, on the date of commencement of these Regulations, is imparting five years training in Neurology and Neurosurgery such institution shall alter it to six-years training course.]
The period of training for obtaining a Postgraduate Diploma shall be two completed years including the examination period.
Under no circumstance, Migration/transfer of student undergoing any Post Graduate Degree/Diploma/Super Specialty course shall be permitted by any university/authority.]
(a) A clinical department or its unit training candidates for Broad or Super Specialities shall have a minimum of three full time faculty members belonging to the concerned disciplines of whom one shall be 8 Professor, one Associate Professor/Reader and one Astt. Professor/Lecturer, possessing requisite qualification and teaching experience prescribed by the Medical Council of India.
Provided that the second or subsequent unit may be headed by an Associate Professor along with two Assistant Professors/Lecturers.
Of these faculty members only those who possess a total of eight years teaching experience, of which at least five years teaching experience is as Assistant Professor gained after Obtaining Post Graduate Degree, shall be recognised as Post Graduate teachers.
2[Further provided that no teacher shall be considered as a postgraduate teacher in any other institution during the period till the postgraduate course at the institute which has be
1[(a) AD institution conducting both Undergraduate and Post Graduate teaching shall fulfill the prescribed minimum requirements for udder graduate training and also additional requirements for Postgraduate training depending on the type of work being carried out in the Department. The additional staff required to be provided in following Departments shall be as under--
(1) Department of Pathology
(i) Associate Professor/Reader-1
(ii) Assistant Professor/Lecturer-1
(iii) Tutor/Demonstrator-1
(2) Department of Radio-diagnosis
(i) Associate Professor/Reader-1
(ii) Assistant Professor/Lecturer-1
(iii) Tutor/Demonstrator-1
(3) Department of Anaesthesiology
(i) Associate Professor/Reader-1
(ii) Assistant Professor/Lecturer-1
(iii) Tutor/Demonstrator-1]
(b) A department imparting only postgraduate training shall-
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2[A Department to be recognised for training of Post Graduate students, shall have at least 60 (Sixty) beds each of General Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and 30 (thirty) beds each for other specialties for Degree and Diploma courses, and 20 (twenty) beds each in case of Super Specialty courses except for DM (Neuro-Radiology) where no beds are needed.]
Explanation.--A unit shall consist of not less than 30 and more than 40 beds for Degree/Diploma courses and not less than 20 and more than 30 beds for Super Specialty courses respectively.]
There shall be adequate space and sufficient number of examination cubicles available in the Out-patient Department. Besides the general outpatient services, Speciality Clinics shall also be available for the training of postgraduate students in the relevant broad and super speciality;
To determine the number of students who may be admitted for training, outpatient attendance, work turnover and ambulatory care, also have to be taken into consideration.
The institutions shall have adequate laboratory facilities for the training of the postgraduate students, and such laboratories shall provide all the investigative facilities required and shall be regularly updated, keeping in view the advancement of knowledge and technology and research requirements; and for training of students in non-clinical departments, proper and contemporary laboratory facilities shall be made available.
The department shall have adequate number of all such equipments including the latest ones necessary for training and as may be prescribed by the Council for each speciality from time to time.
The training given with due care to the postgraduate students in the recognised institutions for the award of various postgraduate medical degrees/diplomas shall determine the expertise of the Specialists and/or medical teachers produced as a result of the educational programme during the period of stay in the institution.
All the candidates joining the Post Graduate training programme shall work as 'Full Time Residents' during the period of training and shall attend not less than 80% (Eighty percent) of the imparted training during 2[Academic Term of 6 months] including assignments, assessed full time responsibilities and participation in all facets of the educational process.
The Post Graduate students undergoing Post Graduate Degree/Diploma/Super-Specialty course, shall be paid stipend on par with the stipend being paid to the Post Graduate students of State Government Medical Institutions/Central Government Medical Institutions, in the State/Union Territory where the institution is located. Similarly, the matter of grant of leave to Post Graduate students shall be regulated as per the respective State Government rules.]
(a) Every institution undertaking postgraduate training programme shall set up an Academic Cell or a Curriculum Committee, under the Chairmanship of a senior faculty member, which shall work out the details of the training programme in each speciality in consultation with other department faculty staff, and also coordinate and monitor the implementation of these training programmes.
(b) The training programmes shall be updated as and when required. The structured training programme shall be written up and strictly followed, to enable the examiners to determine the training undergone, by the candidates and the Medical Council of India Inspectors to assess the same at the time of inspection.
(c) Postgraduate students shall maintain a record (log) book of the work" carried out by them and the training programme undergone during the period of training including details of surgical operations assisted or done independently by M.S./M.Ch. candidates.
1[(d) T
During the training for award of Degree/Super-specialty/Diploma in clinical disciplines, there shall be proper training in Basic medical sciences related to the disciplines concerned; so also in the applied aspects of the subject; and allied subjects related to the disciplines concerned. In the Post Graduate training programmes including both Clinical and Basic medical sciences, emphasis has to be laid on Preventive and Social aspects. Emergency care, facilities for Autopsies, Biopsies, Cytopsies, Endoscopy and Imaging etc. shall also be made available for training purposes.]
The Postgraduate students shall be required to participate in the teaching and training programmes of undergraduate students and interns.
Training in Medical Audit, Management, Health Economics, Health Information System, basics of statistics, exposure to human behaviour studies, knowledge of pharmaco-economics and introduction to non-linear mathematics shall be imparted to the Postgraduate students.
Implementation of the training programmes for the award of various Post Graduate Degree and Diplomas shall include the following: --
(a) Doctor of Medical (M.D.)/Master of Surgery(M.S.)
A postgraduate student of a postgraduate degree course in broad specialities/super specialities would be required to present one poster presentation, to read one paper at a national/state conference and to present one research paper which should be published/accepted for publication/sent for publication during the period of his postgraduate studies so as to make him eligible to appear at the postgraduate degree examination.]
Online Course in Research Methods
(i) All postgraduate students shall complete an online course in Research Methods to be conducted by an Institute (s) that may be designated by the Medical Council of India by way of public notice, including on its website and by Circular to all Medical Colleges. The students shall have to register on the portal of the designated institution or any other institute as indicated in the public notice.
(ii) The students have to complete the course by the end of their 2nd semester.
(iii) The online certificate generated on successful completion of the course and examination thereafter, will be taken as proof of completion of this course.
(iv) The successful completion of the online research methods course with proof of its completion shall be essential before the candidate is allowed to appear for the final examination of the respective postgraduate course.
(v) This requirement will be applicable for all postgraduate st
2[Obtaining a minimum of 40% marks in each theory paper and not less than 50% cumulatively in all the four papers for degree examinations and three papers in diploma examination. Obtaining of 50% marks in practical examination shall be mandatory for passing the examination as a whole in the said degree/diploma examination as the case may be.]]
(1) Examiners
(a) All the Postgraduate Examiners shall be recognised Postgraduate Teachers holding, recognised postgraduate qualifications in the subject concerned.
(b) For all Postgraduate Examinations, the minimum number of Examiners shall be four, out of which at least two (50%) shall be External Examiners, who shall be invited from other, recognised Universities from outside the State. Two sets of internal, examiners may be appointed one for M.D./M.S. and one for diploma.
(c) Under exceptional circumstances, examinations may be held with 3 (Three) examiners provided two of them are e
APPENDIX I |
| 1[x x x x] |
1.Deleted by Notification No. MCI-18(1)/2008-Medical/2954, dt. 20/10/2008 (w.e.f. 23/10/2008).
APPENDIX II |
POSTGRADUATE EXAMINATIONS |
GUIDELINES ON APPOINTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE EXAMINERS |
| 1. 1[No person shall be appointed as an internal examiner in any subject unless he/she has three years experience as recognised PG teacher in the concerned subject. For externers, he/she should have minimum six years of experience as recognized PG teacher in the concerned subject.] |
| 2. There shall be at least four examiners in each subject at an examination out of which at least 50% (Fifty per cent) shall be external examiners. The external examiner who fulfils the condition laid down in Clause 1 above shall ordinarily be invited from another recognised University, from outside the State : provided that in except |
1[APPENDIX III |
[See Regulation 11.2(c)] |
| Criteria to be fulfilled by institutions eligible to start postgraduate course(s) under, sub-regulation (1-A) of Regulation 8, which are required to create their own facilities for setting up departments in basic medical sciences: |
| A. The basic subjects identified for the purposes of creation of facilities shall be: (i) Anatomy (ii) Physiology (iii) Pharmacology (iv) Community Medicine with Forensic Medicine being optional. |
| B. Staff requirements: (1) The minimum staff required in each of the departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology and Community Medicine shall be: 1. Professor or Associate Professor .. One 2. Assistant Professor .. |
SCHEDULE |
| Specialities/Subjects in which Postgraduate Degrees and Diplomas can be awarded by the Indian Universities and the eligibility requirements of candidates for registration for the same |
| A. M.D. (DOCTOR OF MEDICINE) for which candidates must possess recognised degree of MBBS (or its equivalent recognised degree) |
| 1. Anaesthesiology |
| 2. 1[MD (Aerospace Medicine)] |
| 3. Anatomy |
| 4. Biochemistry |
| 5. Biophysics |
| 6. Community Medicine |
| 7. Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy |
| 8. Family Medicine |
| 9. Forensic Medicine |
| 10. General Medicine |
| 11. Geriatrics |
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