NMC Guidelines to Restart Medical Colleges After a Break: All you need to know

NMC guidelines explained and summarised.

By now all the UG students might have started off their MBBS journey after a “short” break, but still the route in front is not clear for everyone. Taking a peek into the NMC (National Medical Commission) guidelines regarding the reopening of the medical colleges complying to which the colleges have already reopened on December 1^st 2020, with academic calendar including schedule of examinations for all UG batches.

According to the guidelines, the new UG academic session for 2020-21 should commence from 1^st February 2021 and the new PG academic session for 2020-21 should begin at least from 1^st July 2021.

2020-21 Batch: would begin their academic session from February 2021.

1^st year Examination: January 2022

2^nd year Examination: December 2022

3^rd Year Examination: December 2023

Final Year Examination: February 2025

2019-20 Batch (Current First Year Students)

1^st year Examination: February 2021

2^nd year Examination:  January 2022

3^rd Year Examination: January 2023

Final Year Examination: February 2024

Completion of internship: February 2025

2018 -19 Batch (Current Second Year Students)

2^nd year Examination: April 2021

3^rd Year Examination:  March 2022

Final Year Examination: February 2023

Completion of internship: February 2024

2017-18 Batch (Current Third Year Students)

3^rd Year Examination: April 2021

Final Year Examination:  March 2022

Completion of internship: March 2023

2016-17 Batch (Current Final Year Students)

Final Year Examination: April 2021

Completion of internship: April 2022

2015 Batch (Current Interns):

• NMC has issued a separate advisory (No.NCM/UGMEB/25447) asking the institutions to review the missed internship training for its own students and to issue a revised training schedule so as to complete the training by 05.2021 or earlier depending on the period of internship lost/completed by the institution prior to or during the lockdown.

*All the above summarized details are based on NMC Advisory (No.NMC/Secy/2020/05) dated 25.11.2020 and may vary according to different universities.

Sources : https://www.nmc.org.in/MCIRest/open/getDocument?path=/Documents/Public/Portal/LatestNews/Advisory-external%20Examiner-04.08.2020%20.pdf