Kathmandu, November 23

The Ministry of Health and Population has approved Nepal Medical Council’s decision to allow medical students, who studied at foreign medical colleges and completed six-month internship, to attend the licensing examination being conducted on December 8.

Earlier, on October 26, Nepal Medical Council had decided to implement accreditation standards for MBBS/BDS programmes, which stated that medical students who studied inside the country required a six-month internship to meet the criteria to appear the exam and students who had studied at foreign universities needed to complete a one-year internship to meet the criteria.

Following the decision of NMC, medical students launched protests and NMC called for a full house meeting and withdrew its decision to implement accreditation standards for MBBS/BDS programmes. An official statement on the decision of NMC was submitted to the Ministry of Health and Population.

The Ministry of Health and Population has approved the decision of NMC to allow student who studied at foreign universities to attend the upcoming licensing exam.

“We have already decided to allow student who studied at foreign universities to attend the licensing exam. We received official letter from the ministry this week. Students will be allowed to attend the examinations,” said Dilip Sharma.