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NMC issues conflicting responses on Georgia MBBS eligibility
The Story in Brief
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has given conflicting responses on whether Indian students studying MBBS in Georgia can sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE). On September 24, the NMC said graduates must obtain an independent licence to practise medicine in Georgia, as required by the FMG Regulations 2021. But in an October 13 response, the regulator said the independent licensing clause is under review by an expert committee, creating ambiguity.
Legal experts have warned that the confusion may allow education consultants to push enrolments in foreign universities without a clear path to practice in India. Georgia itself has clarified that its graduates can work only as junior doctors under supervision, not independently. Lawyers have asked the NMC and Union Health Ministry to publish a list of compliant foreign institutions, as reported by India Today.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The conflicting NMC responses place thousands of Indian students in Georgia in a holding pattern, unable to confirm whether their degrees will qualify them for the FMGE. Without a clear rule on independent licensing, students who enrolled after September 24 face the risk that their academic years may not lead to a licence to practise in India. The government has not set a deadline for the expert committee's review, leaving families to decide between stalling their plans or betting on a favourable outcome. The students affected are effectively waiting on a single date: whenever the committee reports its finding.
Source: medicaldialogues.in
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