On 23rd June 2023, National Medical Commission ( NMC ) released a circular regarding a webinar to be held on 27th of June at 2.30 PM. According to the circular, the Chairman of NMC will address all the final year MBBS students and faculties of all private and government medical colleges regarding all the concerns, question and doubts regarding the National Exit Test (NExT) that is expected to be held from December 2023 or beginning of 2024.
NMC has requested all the colleges to join the webinar 1 hour prior ( 1.30PM) to the actual timing (2.30PM). Only single login will be permitted to each college. A mock trial of webinar will also be done on 26th of June at 2.30PM to check for any technical glitches.
Link to join the webinar :
What is NExT ?
The National Exit Test (NEXT) is now national medical postgraduate exam that is mandatory for the MBBS students to pass in order to get a “Dr” tag with their name.
The exam was introduced by the central government of India in the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2019. The NEXT exam will act as a replacement for the FMGE Exam as well as the NEET-PG Exam.
According to the Ministry of health, the main objective of the NEXT Exam is to improve the medical health system of the country and produce more talented doctors. Only those candidates passing the NEXT Exam will be eligible for a medical degree in India, even the medical graduates from other countries have to clear this exam in order to be eligible to work in India and those students having good scores in the can get admission in PG in India.
-Ritesh Srivastava (Sr. Editor-MCD , MBBS-NSMCH)
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