{"id":129061,"date":"2023-05-15T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=129061"},"modified":"2023-05-12T22:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:08:36","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-the-national-exit-test-next-medical-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/government\/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-national-exit-test-next-medical-examination","title":{"rendered":"All You Need To Know About The National Exit Test (NExT) Medical Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The National Medical Commission (NMC) conducts the National Exit Test (NExT). The commission proposed a draft for regulating the test, a medical licensing exam. This test is designed to assess the competency of medical graduates. Overseas students, as well as students who have received their medical degrees from NMC-approved medical institutions, both, have to qualify for the National Exit Test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A person must pass the NExT to register for medical practice in India. Admissions in postgraduate courses are based on a candidate&#8217;s merit in NExT. According to the National Medical Commission Bill 2019, NExT will also function as a screening test for foreign medical graduates who now need to qualify under the Medical Council of India Screening Test and for postgraduate medical courses. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare also introduced the draft National Dental Commission Bill in January 2020, which called for NEXT after BDS for dentists in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The objective of the test<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NExT aims to ensure that all doctors have a minimum level of knowledge and competency by improving India&#8217;s healthcare quality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To provide consistency nationwide in the summative evaluation by delivering training for a medical graduate with minimum common education standards.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Who can apply for the exam?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Any final-year student who has pursued a medical degree either from Indian University or abroad, or those who seek admission to Postgraduate medical courses, can apply for the exam. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The exam is valid for all medical institutes, including AIIMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who conducts the exams?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The National Medical Commission is the implementing body, whereas the exam is conducted by the National Board of Examination.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">National Medical Commission<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">National Medical Commission (NMC) is India&#8217;s medical regulatory agency regulating medical education and professionals. The commission gives accreditation to medical schools, grants recognition of medical qualifications, monitors medical practice and assesses the medical infrastructure, and grants registration to medical practitioners in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The mission of the commission<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The commission aims at improving access to affordable and quality medical education.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To ensure the availability of high-quality and adequate medical professionals access to all the citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The commission also promotes universal and equitable healthcare that makes professional medical services accessible to all citizens and encourages a community health perspective.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Encourages medical professionals to contribute to medical research.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It also conducts inspections of medical colleges to ensure that medical standards are maintained.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It functions to enforce high ethical standards in medical services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It also maintains a medical register for India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Boards coming under the Commission<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Four autonomous boards are coming under the commission-<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Medical Assessment and Rating Board<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ethics and Medical Registration Board<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Medical Commission (NMC) conducts the National Exit Test (NExT). The commission proposed a draft for regulating the test, a medical licensing exam. This test is designed to assess the competency of medical graduates. Overseas students, as well as students who have received their medical degrees from NMC-approved medical institutions, both, have to qualify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21841,"featured_media":136382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12124,12459,4,11071,11315,12275,9347],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-career","8":"category-education-government","9":"category-government","10":"category-health","11":"category-india","12":"category-knowledge","13":"category-science"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136376,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129061\/revisions\/136376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}