Devansh Goel, Final Year, MBBS, AIIMS, Rishikesh
It would be wrong and shortsighted to judge a candidate’s clinical skill and acumen by his/her performance in class XII board exams. The making of a doctor occurs during the five odd years spent in college, and to say that one would be not qualified enough to be a doctor on the basis of marks alone, would be judging him/her prematurely.
Moreover, the MCI has a screening examination and a compulsory rotator residential internship (CRRI) for foreign MBBS graduates; only upon clearing that are they registered as medical practitioners in India.
This allows for a student to be assessed in India based on his/her hard work and knowledge acquired over the years in his/her MBBS and not on a result of the past.
Ishita Sharma, VI, B.Tech ECE- Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan
This judgment may not have appealed to the masses, but it will certainly be ireful to the students who were unhappy with the quota system. There is tough competition, and scoring a mere 90% is common in the Indian education system. So, if there are people coming from every background, pertaining to quota, there will be a fair chance to put their knowledge to test and then qualify to go abroad for practising medicine. Therefore, the risk of non-meritorious students becoming doctors as under qualified doctors will be reduced.
Varuna, I, MA English, Ambedkar University Delhi
While it would be a good step to bring in more academically meritorious students into the country, it also ignores the subtle fact that the evaluation patterns followed by the foreign universities and Indian universities are quite different. Therefore, the court’s argument of justifying the increase in qualifying criteria by paralleling the scores gained through national assessment patterns, as observed by Indian universities with those scored by FMGE applicants, seems unjust. This may also hinder many otherwise meritorious students who might not have scored academically, but possess practitioner skills.
Kamakshi Kharbanda, Final Year, MBBS, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
I think it is a great move because eventually, these doctors will come to India and practise medicine. For students who want to study medicine in India, strict academic guidelines have been enforced to protect the profession and the people — then, why not enforce the same set of guidelines for people pursuing these degrees outside the country? Quality should not be compromised at any cost.
We have a great shortage of doctors in this country, and every single doctor, especially in government setups, is overworked and overburdened. So, an influx of academically-sound foreign medical graduates will be making work easy instead of the other way around.
