NEET PG likely in March 2024; NMC invites comments for PGMER 2023

To ensure physical and mental wellbeing of students, the Council has ordered that students should be asked to work for reasonable working hours and should be provided reasonable time for rest in a day. 

NEET PG: The National Medical Council (NMC) has invited comments from the stakeholders on Post Graduate Medical Regulations (PGMER) 2023. Additionally, the Council has also released a tentative schedule for NEET PG/ NExT 2024.

The draft guidelines are available at the official website — nmc.org.in.

As of now, the Council has not given a final notice on whether NExT or NEET PG will be conducted from next year. However, the exam — NExT or NEET PG — will be conducted in the month of March and results will be declared by the first week of April.

According to the official schedule, the first round of central counselling will be tentatively conducted from May 10 to 20 and state counselling from May 20 to 31. The last of joining for round one will be May 31 for central counselling and June 5 for state counselling.

Second round of counselling for all India level will be held from June 1 to 10 and the last day of reporting will be June 20. For state counselling, it will be held from June 11 to 20 and the last date of joining is June 30.

Round 3 and online stray vacancy round will be conducted during the month of July and initial days of August. The classes will commence from July 1, but students will have time till August 10 to join their classes.

The registration fee for government colleges is Rs 25,000 and half for SC, ST and OBC candidates and for private and deemed colleges, the fees is Rs 2 lakh.

NMC has also notified that all postgraduate students will have to work as full-time resident doctors. To ensure physical and mental wellbeing of students, the Council has ordered that students should be asked to work for reasonable working hours and should be provided reasonable time for rest in a day.

Additionally, PG students of broad and super specialty degree courses have been instructed to maintain a dynamic e log book which needs to be updated on a weekly basis about the work being carried out by them and the training programme undergone during the period of training. MS/M.Ch students shall mandatorily enter details of surgical procedures assisted or done independently. These log books will be checked, assessed and authenticated monthly by the postgraduate guide imparting the training.

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