NMC provides year-long relaxation to medical teachers for completing BCMET

Mumbai, July 27, 2022 :

The National Medical Commission (NMC), the country's apex regulator for medical education, has provided year-long relaxation to teaching faculty in medical colleges for completion of Basic Course in Medical Education Technology (BCMET).
 
Para 6 of the “Teachers Eligibility Qualifications in Medical Institutions Regulations, 2022” stipulates norms for faculty appointment and promotion in broad specialties (MD/MS) and super specialties (DM/M.Ch) in a recognized medical college. It, inter alia, stipulates that for promotion to the post of professor, associate professor, the faculty should have completed BCMET from institutions designated by the NMC.
 
Due to non-availability of slots for the BCMET in designated institutions, many faculties were not getting promoted. They reached out to NMC seeking resolution of the issue.
 
To obviate the difficulties being faced by the faculty, it has been decided to give relaxation for completion of the BCMET for one year from the date of issue of this notice, stated a circular issued by NMC on July 25, 2022.
 
“The faculty availing this relaxation will have to complete the said course within three years from the date of promotion. The faculty which has already been promoted earlier on such relaxation, will also have to complete the BCMET within three years from the date of promotion,” stated the circular.
 
Teachers Eligibility Qualifications in Medical Institutions Regulations, 2022, finalized by NMC in February this year stated that all faculty must possess a postgraduate degree or equivalent qualification included in any one of the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) and National Medical Commission Act, 2019 to teach in medical colleges. Besides this, they must also be registered in a State Medical Register or National Medical Register, except in the case of teachers with non-medical qualifications.
 
The regulation also says that the medical superintendent of the affiliated teaching hospital shall possess a recognized postgraduate medical degree from a recognized Institution with a minimum of ten years teaching experience as professor /associate professor in the relevant departments of the hospital, out of which at least five years should be as professor. Appointment to these posts has to be made on seniority-cum-merit basis. The medical superintendent shall not occupy the position of the head of the department. However, he or she can head the unit.
 
The position of dean/director/principal of standalone postgraduate broad specialty/super specialty institution shall be held by a person possessing a recognized postgraduate degree from a recognized institution with minimum of ten years teaching experience as professor/associate professor, out of which, at least five years should be as professor.
 
The heads of the departments of broad and super specialty courses shall possess a recognized postgraduate broad specialty and super specialty degree, as the case may be, in the concerned specialty. This mandatory requirement is relaxed for five more years from the date of notification of this Regulation to all the Broad and Super Specialty courses which were started after January 1, 2009, added the regulation.  Pharmabiz