NMC has barred medical college teachers from private practice during college hours and required 75% attendance. Inpatients must occupy hospital beds and 15% of post-graduate training departments must be ICU/HDU beds. Postgraduate medical colleges need 220 beds, functional departments, labs, and imaging.
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has banned medical college teachers from private practice during college hours and required 75% attendance to combat ghost faculty. The medical regulator released the “Minimum Standard of Requirements for Postgraduate Courses-2023 (PGMSR-2023)” rules last week.
Faculty must be full-time and not practice privately during college hours. The requirements require 75% attendance of all working days for the required number of faculties.
The guidelines also required that 80% of hospital beds be occupied year-round by inpatient patients and that 15% of the department providing post-graduate training be ICU/HDU beds.
The guidelines required hospital buildings to meet national building standards and local statutory regulations for hospitals, including administration, registration, records storage, outpatient and inpatient areas, operating theaters, ICU, radiology and laboratory services, and emergency areas.
With more hospital beds, radio-diagnosis, anesthesia, pathology, microbiology, and biochemistry faculty, infrastructure, and staff will expand. If department workload increases, faculty and infrastructure will expand, per rules.
Standalone post-graduate medical colleges or institutes under Section 3.1(iii) of PGMER-23 must have at least 220 beds and functional departments of biochemistry, pathology, microbiology, radio diagnosis, and anesthesiology (when surgical specialties exist).
The department should completely operate the institutional laboratory and imaging facilities for post-graduate student training.
Laboratories will have all the investigative facilities needed and be upgraded to increase information, science, and technology for study.
A well-equipped air-conditioned blood bank that can provide component therapy and digital records of department and laboratory examinations are planned.
Conclusion
The National Medical Commission (NMC) requires full-time medical college instructors to attend 75% of working days and not practice privately during college hours. The recommendations also require 80% of hospital beds to be occupied by inpatients and 15% of post-graduate training departments to have ICU or HDU beds solely for them. The standards also require post-graduate medical colleges to include 220 beds, biochemistry, pathology, microbiology, radio diagnostic, and anaesthesiology departments, and suitable laboratory and imaging equipment.
