As war rages, evacuated Indian students consider opting out of Ukrainian universities

[ad_1] In the four months after his evacuation from war-torn Kharkiv in Ukraine in February, Omkar Venkatchari, a third-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, took online classes and wrote his end-semester exams. He is also currently preparing for KROK-1, Ukraine’s qualifying medical examination. But war draws on and going back seems highly […]

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With lack of clarity from NMC, students back from Ukraine depend on online classes

[ad_1] With no clarity from India’s top medical education regulator and their respective universities, students who have come back from war-torn Ukraine continue to attend online classes for lack of other options. The first- and second-year students cannot do much other than apply for NEET-UG again or go back to their universities in Ukraine that […]

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Indian medical students in Chinese universities are stuck. Why, and what next?

[ad_1] Indian medical students studying in Chinese universities, who have been stranded in India since January 2020, recently held a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, demanding immediate action to allow them to obtain practical training, either in China or in Indian medical schools. Why are the students stuck? The outbreak of the pandemic in China […]

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NMC introduces yoga training in MBBS course curriculum

[ad_1] The National Medical Commission (NMC) has introduced yoga training in the MBBS foundation course. This training will be compulsory for an hour every day for at least a period of 10 days. All details about this yoga training programme are available on official NMC website — nmc.org.in. This yoga training is scheduled to begin […]

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Charak oath row: Madurai Medical College students take the blame

[ad_1] The student council leaders of Madurai Medical College have clarified that there was no specific direction from the college authorities to take the Maharshi Charak oath in Sanskrit. Citing that they have been following the National Medical Commission (NMC) on many academic matters, student council leader Jothish Kumaravel said on Monday that there was […]

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