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News – The National Medical Commission has withdrawn the new Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (GMER) without any explanation.
What are some facts about new GMER regulations?
The regulations have introduced a longitudinal programme based on attitude, ethics, and communication competencies for young medical students.
It lays stress on ethical values, being responsive to patient needs, and improved communication, early clinical experience.
It had specified that lectures would not exceed a third of the schedule. The bulk of the course would include interactive sessions, practical, clinical experience, and case studies.
It calls for a family adoption program through village outreach, for each MBBS student, and a ‘pandemic module’.
It has advocated for the reduction of the overall time period for students to complete the MBBS course to nine years, fixed number of attempts to clear papers, and common counselling for admission from 2024.
If a student failed to clear any exam, she could have appeared in the supplementary examination. The students, if successful, could have proceeded with the same batch.
What is the necessity of a new GMER?
The new regulations aimed at making medical education more learner-centric, patient-centric, gender-sensitive, outcome-oriented and environment-appropriate.
The GMER was notified in 1997. It is the right time to take a relook at these, and adapt them to changing requirements of demography, socio-economic contexts, and advancements in science and technology.
New GMER will enable the country’s medical students to be future-ready.
