Khushi Gupta
Published on: April 30, 2022 at 13:06 IST
The Supreme Court asked National Medical Commission to allow students to take clinical training in India, who pursued medical education in foreign countries and were compelled to come back to India due to the pandemic and completed the course including practical’s through online classes and to recognise their degrees instead of making them invalid.
A Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V Ramasubramanian said a person cannot become a good doctor without practical training which can be done only in physical form and not through online.
It could also bring relief to some of the Indian students who were on the verge of completing their medical education in Ukraine before being evacuated.
“No doubt, the pandemic has thrown new challenges to the entire world including the students but granting provisional registration to complete internship to a student who has not undergone clinical training would be compromising with the health of the citizens of any country and the health infrastructure at large…”
“Therefore, without practical training, there cannot be any doctor who is expected to take care of the citizens of the country. Hence, the decision of the appellant (Commission) not to grant provisional registration cannot be said to be arbitrary,” the Bench said.