What is NEXT ?
National Exit Test (NExT) is a postgraduate medical exam designed to serve as a qualifying exam for final year MBBS students and a licentiate exam enabling Indian medical professionals to practice modern medicine.
Purpose of exam –
It will not only acts as a qualifying examination for final year MBBS students but will also serve as a licentiate exam, which enables individuals to practice modern medicine in India. Additionally, the NExT will play a crucial role in the merit-based admission process for postgraduate courses. The objective of this exam is to create more skillful medical practitioners in India. It will bring transparency and uniformity in the standard of licensed doctors.
People can’t judge the quality of training an Indian medical student acquires is not the same as the abroad medical student and vice-versa. The exam will show up the equivalence in the studies of doctors
.
Advantages –
1) Ensures that education is equal and standardised across the country. Test will be regarded as a pan Indian examination and will be strictly followed by all states.
2) Ensures that country receives top graduates with practical and clinical knowledge in India’s day to day situation.
3) Solves the problem of scarcity of trained and qualified doctors.
4) Test would assist foreign MBBS graduates who completed their course overseas and wishes
to practice in India. Previously, they were need to take FMGE exam which is notorious due to its burdensome paperwork.
One of the primary goal of NEXT exam is to improve and revolutionise India’s entire medical field.
Disadvantages –
1)NEXT 1 would be a three day exam with a major and a minor subject of MBBS syllabus. This will going to be very hectic .
2)This will create a lot of burden on students to not just finish off final year in less time but also revise everything they have read throughout their MBBS in a very less duration.
3)Now getting a licence for practicing after internship in a subjective exam there’s always going to be a tinge of bias which would cost the students a lot of time and agony.
Conclusion –
Rote learning will be replaced by conceptual learning and students now have to focus more on clinical and practical based learning.
Government is trying to bring uniformity through single exam and also by removing unnecessary paperwork which is very helpful for foreign medical graduates.
A exam like NEXT is necessary for our country like India to bring revolution and unification in entire medical field.
– ANKIT ( MBBS, JLNMCH )
