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New NMC rules stipulate all PG students to work as full-time resident doctors, for ‘reasonable’ working hours

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The National Medical Commission (NMC) has come out with new regulations which stipulate all post-graduate students to work as full-time resident doctors and for "reasonable working hours".

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has come out with new regulations which stipulate all post-graduate students to work as full-time resident doctors and for “reasonable working hours”. Accoding to the recently-notified “Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023”, the students will be provided “reasonable time for rest” in a day.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has come out with new regulations which stipulate all post-graduate students to work as full-time resident doctors and for “reasonable working hours”. Accoding to the recently-notified “Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023”, the students will be provided “reasonable time for rest” in a day.

They will be permitted a minimum 20 days of casual leaves per year and five days of academic per year.

“Subject to exigencies of work, post-graduate students will be allowed one weekly holiday,” the new regulations which have replaced the Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018, stated.

“All these will reduce stress on students. Earlier there was no written provision of leaves,” Dr Vijay Oza, president of Post-Graduate Medical Education Board of NMC, explained.

If a candidate avails leave in excess of the permitted number of days, his or her term of course shall be extended by the same number of days to complete the training period, the regulations stated.

However, one shall be able to appear in the examination if one has 80 per cent of the attendance.

Besides, the regulations stipulate that it will be mandatory for the college to provide appropriate residential accommodation to post-graduate students. However, it will not be mandatory for the post-graduate students to stay in the hostel.

Source: Economic Times

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