NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION REGULATION 2020: IS THIS BOON OR EXECRATION FOR MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA?

Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 with section 61(2) of the National Medical Council Act, 2019 published notification as, Requirements for Annual M.B.B.S. Admissions Regulations, 2020 dated 20th October 2020, which replaced to replaces the Minimum Standard Requirements for Medical Colleges, 1999 of the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI). The objectives of the notification were to harness modern educational technology tools to facilitate quality education and healthcare. It was pictured that competency-based medical education to be taught by medical degree holders and non-medical degree holders are less competent. Whereas research and publications part in medical education is completely ignored that is the sole of medical innovations. The reduction in basic sciences non-medical qualified teachers will hamper basic research and its translation to medical research. Authors searched relevant literature from online PubMed, Scopes, Elsevier, Google Scholar database. In conclusion, a proportionate number of basic sciences and integration with clinical subject faculties will eliminate the scarcity of high impact medical publications.