NMC allows mercy attempt for professional MBBS examination
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has allowed one additional attempt (5th attempt) to such MBBS students who were admitted in medical colleges during the academic year 2019-20 and could not pass their first professional MBBS examination.
NMC has listed medical colleges eligible to offer compulsory rotating medical internship for foreign medical graduates
Non-teaching hospitals are allowed to offer compulsory rotating medical internship for foreign medical graduates as a one time measure till May 2024.
Registration of Medical Practitioners and License to Practice Medicine Regulations, 2023
The regulations provides following guidelines regarding Registration in National Medical Register (NMR) for license to practice.
Clarification regarding internship for foreign medical graduates
Students returned due to Russia Ukraine war is granted certificate of course completion and allowed to write FMG examination. Provision of 2 year internship is only applicable to FMG and they are required to complete course from their respective university in offline mode. Further the circular mentions about the domicile requirement, completion of internship, payment of stipend and about one time relaxation for FMG to complete internship.
Drugs (Amendment) Rules, 2023
The amendment provides the revised timeline for the process of application for license to manufacture Ayurvedic (including Siddha) or Unani drugs and Loan License.
A Newly synthesized biocompatible drug delivery system for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
This drug delivery system is simple, cost-effective, safe, and has significant translational potential. The nano-formulation so far tested on rats and published in ACS Nano may bring long-term relief for numerous RA patients in the future by suppressing the disease severity of Rheumatoid arthritis.
DCI seeks to revise Indian Dentists Register
The Registrar of all the State Dental Councils/Tribunals are directed to send up-to-date data of all the existing registered dentists so as to enable this Council to maintain the Indian Dentists Register.
List of sub-standard Drugs, Medical Devices, and Cosmetics for March, 2023
List of Drugs, Medical Devices, and Cosmetics, declared as Not of Standard Quality/Spurious/Adulterated/Misbranded for the Month of March 2023.
Medical Devices Policy
Regulatory Streamlining: In order to enhance ease of doing research and business and further to balance patient safety with product innovation measures, policy introduces measures such as creation of a Single Window Clearance System’ for Licensing of Medical Devices coopting all the stakeholder departments / organizations such as AERB, MeitY, DAHD, etc, enhancing the Role of Indian Standards like BIS and designing a coherent pricing regulation, will be followed.
Government of Odisha enforces use of mask in all health institutions
In view of rising of COVID-19 cases both in country and in Odisha as a part of adopting COVID appropriate behavior in health institutions, has decided to enforce use of mask in all health institutions.
