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The National Medical Commission—the country’s apex regulatory body for medical education—has barred 38 medical colleges from admitting new MBBS students this year after it found them defaulting on several mandatory administrative standards, including maintaining faculty attendance records, reports the...

Around 30 medical colleges across the country have lost recognition over the past two months allegedly for not following standards set by the National Medical Commission (NMC), official sources said on Tuesday.About 100 more medical colleges in Tamil Nadu,...

State’s Medical College, Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) at Phriebagie, Kohima, could soon become operational as it has received ‘Letter of Intent’ (LOI) from the National Medical Council (NMC)’s Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) even...

Nagaland Medical Council (NMC) has called upon its members practising both in private and government sectors to continue maintaining highest levels of ethical practice.Drawing attention to a news article “Govt doctors in private practice warned” in Nagaland Post on...

Two officials from National Medical Commission (NMC) inspected Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (NIMSR) at Phriebagie, Kohima and teaching hospital at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHA) here on Tuesday.The State government officials were taken by surprise as...

The Union health ministry is working to finalise guidelines to do away with the bond policy for doctors based on the National Medical Commission’s recommendations in this regard, official sources said.According to the bond policy, doctors are required to...

NMC TO VISIT NIMSR IN NOV FOR CERTIFICATION A four-member team constituted by the Gauhati High Court (GHC) Kohima Bench, inspected the ongoing construction of the Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) Phriebagie, Kohima Saturday.The team led by...

Anatomist, medical educationist and bioethics expert Dr. Soumya Chakraborty has been appointed as director-cum-dean of Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (NIMSR)-- erstwhile Nagaland Medical College, Phriebagie, Kohima.According to secretary Health & Family Welfare Asangla Imti, the appointment...

Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP)—Nagaland branch and National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) under Central TB Division (CTD), ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW) jointly conducted a workshop on “Childhood Tuberculosis Training” at Zion hospital and research centre Dimapur,...

State Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) department has issued a statement through DIPR on the status of the medical college at Phriebagei-- Nagaland Institute of Medical Science and Research.It said that the Health ministry had approved the establishment of...