NEET PG 2024 admission counselling to be carried out in online mode

Counselling for postgraduate medical admissions will be done only online now, and colleges will have to declare fees for each course beforehand, the National Medical Commission (NMC) announced, underlining that no college will admit candidates independently. 

The NMC recently notified the “Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023”, in which all rounds of counselling for all PG seats will be held online by state or central counselling authorities.

The new regulations state that there shall be common counselling for admission to postgraduate courses in medicine for all medical institutions in the country based on the merit list of respective exams. “All rounds of counselling for all seats will be held online by state, or central counselling authority, and no medical college/institution will admit any candidate,” it said. 

“While entering details in the seat matrix, medical colleges shall mention the fees for each course, failing which seat will not be counted,” the regulations state. Some changes in the examination system have also been introduced, which include formative assessment and the option of multiple-choice questions in university examinations, Dr Vijay Oza, president of the Postgraduate Medical Education Board of the NMC, said 

Better training

“This is to bring objectivity in examination and match international standards,” he has said. Another change has been made in the District Residency Programme (DRP) to facilitate its implementation for better student training. 

 “Under the DRP, doctors can be trained in a district hospital, which shall be a functional public sector/government-funded hospital of not less than 50 beds instead of the previous requirement of 100 beds,” the regulations read.