Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC): False records; revocation of internship instructions for foreign medical graduates
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC) has canceled the internships of three foreign medical graduates (FMGs) in response to their falsified documentation.
This was discovered in May 2024 during the medical council’s verification procedure. The registrar of RMC, Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, confirmed this situation and revealed that Raj Kumar Meena, Ankur Kumar, and Himanshu Chauhan’s internships were canceled.
Medical Dialogues had previously announced that RMC was accepting applications for its internship program from foreign medical graduates. According to the regulations, Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) must pass the screening exam, known as the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE), and then complete the required internship in accordance with the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) standards.
766 students were given seats for the FMG internship out of the 1136 applicants that applied, according to the Rajasthan Medical Council’s (RMC) initial merit list.
According to the most recent media report by the Times of India, the Rajasthan Medical Council discovered that three graduates who had applied for internships in the State had fake documents during the verification process in May.
The forged records were allegedly presented by three doctors: Himanshu Chauhan, Ankur Kumar, and Raj Kumar Meena. The Medical Council notified Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the Registrar of the Medical Council, of the cancellation of their internships after taking note of this.
In the meantime, the National Medical Commission (NMC) recently announced that all foreign medical graduates who have completed the equivalent exam to the MBBS in India and who have received adequate compensation for in-person instruction instead of online courses will be eligible for a one-year mandatory internship.
This follows the Council’s decision earlier this month to reject the compensation certificates that the FMGs had received. Medical Dialogues had previously stated that the NMC had declared via notification dated 07.06.2024 that it would not recognize the compensatory certifications that FMGs had acquired from their parent institutes overseas.
FMGs, on the other hand, began to oppose to this decision and went to the NMC office to voice their concerns. Following a recent discussion with NMC officials, representatives from FMG asserted that NMC had promised to modify its previous notification.
After that, NMC changed its position on the matter and stated that all other requirements would stay the same as those outlined in the public notice dated 07.12.2023, which NMC had used to clarify a number of issues pertaining to FMGs from Ukraine, the recognition of BS courses, the issuance of FMG internships, etc.
