National medical commission Reviewing Disability guidelines In order to emphasize to admission to medical courses, whether individuals can demonstrate essential competencies, rather than what percentage of disability they have. It comes after being directed by the Supreme Court that guidelines can be reviewed to assess what they can do instead of such candidates.
The panel, which prepared the guidelines, has decided to change the name of disability assessment boards accordingly. Capacity assessment boardPreparing the new guidelines submitted to the court to the minutes of the meeting revealed that it would “try to define which medical qualifications are necessary and are non-paralysis for safe medical practice”.
Disabled candidates challenge NMC guidelines
Over the years, many candidates with disabilities have successfully challenged the disability guidelines of NMC, on the basis of which they were stopped from joining the MBBS syllabus after approved the National Entrance Examination. In the case of such a candidate, who reached the Supreme Court seeking justice, the court ordered a review of the guidelines, which “will survive a benchmark model” keeping in mind the “contemporary advancement in disability justice” to test the functional capability of medical aspirations with disability “.
In the October 2024 order, SC said, “The promotion of self -approved of disabled medical candidates will assume that their habitat will reduce and be useless – the guidelines have said in their October order.
Last month, NMC on May 14, 2015 formed a seven-member committee to review the disability guidelines published by the Medical Council of India. Three members of the new committee were a part of the committee who prepared the 2019 guidelines. Two of them, Dr. Sanjay Wadhwa (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and Dr. Rajesh Sagar (Psychiatry), both Meies from DelhiTill now all have been members of all four committees who have prepared disability guidelines. Dr. of Maulana Azad Medical College Achal Gulati (ear, nose throat), who heads the latest committee, was in three of these four committees. The three committees formed earlier dominated the doctors of AIIMS, Delhi. In the new seven-member committee, only three are from AIIMS.
“AIIMS does not fall under NMC and so it is yet to align with qualification-based to modify its course. Medical education The NMC syllabus which was revised and released in the sept last year. When AIIMS does not even follow an ability-based structure, how can it frame the qualification-based guidelines for NMC institutions? The same people have been included in the committee when the guidelines made by them have been repeatedly challenged and found to be problematic. They will review their own guidelines. There are no experts all over the country who stop AIIMS? “Dr. Satendra Singh asked, a Disability Rights Activist and Faculty at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi.
