The National Medical Commission on 14th February 2022, has published the “Teachers Eligibility Qualifications in Medical Institutions Regulations, 2022 which deals with the norms for appointment of faculty in medical institutions.
Appointment and promotion of faculty in various teaching specialties imparting graduate and postgraduate medical education in medical institutions, falling within the purview of the National Medical Commission, has to be in accordance with the minimum qualifications and experience prescribed in these Regulations, so as to maintain a standard of teaching in medical institutions.
As per the regulation, all Medical Teachers must possess a Postgraduate degree or equivalent qualification included in any one of the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) and National Medical Commission Act, 2019. They must also be registered in a State Medical Register or National Medical Register, except in the case of teachers with non-medical qualifications.
The maximum age limit up to which a person can be appointed or granted extension or reemployed in service against the posts of Teacher or Medical Superintendent or Dean or Principal or Director or, as the case may be, which are required to be filled up as per the norms of the National Medical Commission in any Medical College/ Institution for imparting Graduate and Post-Graduate medical education shall be 70 years
In the Departments of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, non-medical graduates having M.Sc. (relevant medical) and PhD qualifications, granted by the recognized Medical College/Institute as regular on campus course in the subject concerned, can be appointed as Assistant Professors. A non-medical person cannot be appointed as Dean or Director or Principal or Medical Superintendent or Head of the Department.
The appointing authority may consider certain equivalent postgraduate qualifications, which may be approved by the National Medical Commission from time to time, to be the requisite recognized qualification in the subject concerned.
