Cannot take more than 10% foreign medicos

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1. The story: The Tamil Nadu Medical Council has directed all recognised medical colleges in the State to restrict the intake of Foreign Medical Graduates (FMG) to 10% of the sanctioned MBBS seats for undergoing Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship (CRRI) training. It said that the number of FMGs applying for provisional registration to undergo internship was increasing.
2. The data: From approximately 600 in 2018, the number went up to 1,000 in 2020 and likely to cross 1,200 in future. But the recognised medical institutions for imparting internship training to them were found to be inadequate and hence unable to accommodate the increasing number of interns, with a resultant crowding in a particular institution. That leads to a loss in quality of internship training.
3. Approval issues: In the list of recognised teaching and non-teaching hospitals for CRRI training, only 40 were approved by the erstwhile Medical Council of India and the data was not updated later. The Council had communicated to the National Medical Commission to provide a fresh list of hospitals/institutions approved for CRRI training in the State.
4. Limits on FMGs: The Council has asked all government district headquarters hospitals with a bed strength of more than 750 to admit 40 and those with more than 500 to admit 30 FMGs for CRRI training. Other private hospitals were told to follow the erstwhile MCI’s order till a communication was received from the National Medical Commission. The instruction is important as the State government had lifted the restriction on the intake of students for internship at government medical colleges as a one-time measure to handle COVID-19.
5. Changing with time: The government issued the orders acting on a proposal of the Director of Medical Education to relax the Tamil Nadu Medical Council’s stipulation that medical colleges issue the NOC to FMGs and students of other States after ensuring that the admission under the CRRI did not exceed 10% of the MBBS seats allotted by the National Medical Commission. The DME had sought lifting of the restriction on internship by students of private and foreign medical colleges at certain colleges, and the govt. had agreed.
6. Summary: The DME had underscored the urgent need to contain COVID-19 cases that had reached alarming proportions with increased mortality in the State.

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