Exit Exam Compulsory For MBBS Graduates

Team Anigdha

Update on - 25 March 2021

Students will now need to do something more apart from just completing 5 years of their MBBS course. They now have to appear for an exit exam to procure the Doctor life they dreamed of. An exit exam also know as National Licentiate Exam for MBBS students was proposed and has been passed. This exam is designed for the India medical graduates and International medical graduates to practice in the nation. It is compulsory for all MBBS graduates to pass the exam and only then they will be eligible to practice in India. It could be a good step though since this exit exam will also be considered for Post-Graduation studies. If you are looking for Post-Graduation then make sure you get admissible marks in exit exam since it influences your career in profession. This implies that students have to appear for a single exam to get a licence and further Post Graduation studies both. This exit exam replaced three entrance exams that are NEET for Post-Graduation admission, Foreign Graduate Medical Examination and Recruitment for Central Health Services.

This step of introducing exit exam turned out to be revolutionary step for International Medical Graduates since students studying MBBS abroad claimed that Medical Council India (FMGE) pass rate was low and MCI doesn’t allow International students to clear the exam. So, here comes the best part of introducing exit exam that there will be a single exam for everyone. It will be a quality check exam for the MBBS students who didn’t study well during the course and also to check if they deserve to use the ‘Dr.’ tag with their name. This exit test will surely push the MBBS students to work harder and study solemnly during the entire MBBS course. This is one of the greatest benefits of this newly introduced exam.

There are people in society who say that students doing MBBS in private colleges are not sharp as who are studying in government medical colleges and got through medical entrance exam, without paying heavy donations. Now, it is time for students studying in private universities to prove those judgmental people wrong. Also, this test is much needed since students might not remember what they studied or practiced in their 5 years of MBBS course. To become a good doctor, it is necessary for them to revise what they studied in their course since most of them will be preparing for Post-Graduation anyway. This test will not burden them in any way but will help them to bring out the version of them. People need good doctors because their life depends on how a doctor treats the disease which is not letting them to live their life to the fullest.

Is Exit Exam Applicable For The All MBBS Course Batches?

National Medical Council will replace The Medical Council of India. Also, The Indian Medical Act, 1956 will be revoked. So, let’s assume that the current batches of MBBS course will not have to show up in the exit exam.