New Delhi: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has announced that the academic session for the MBBS course for the year 2021 will commence from February 14 2022 considering the evident delay due to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. With this, the NMC has released the tentative academic curriculum for the upcoming MBBS batch starting this month.
The Graduate Medical Education Regulation 1997, as amended from time to time, stipulates the date of starting of the academic session and duration of Undergraduate courses being offered across the country.
Referring to the said regulations, the NMC has issued a notification on its official website pointing towards the delay in the starting of MBBS courses on account of the Covid Pandemic in the year 2021.
Therefore, National Medical Commission has decided that the academic session for the MBBS courses for the year 2021 shall commence from 14th February 2022, the NMC notification issued under the authority of Secretary Dr Sandhya Bhullar clearly stated.
The NMC added that the Academic curriculum for the Undergraduate courses shall be completed within the stipulated time as prescribed in the aforementioned Regulations.
Further, on the impartation of the MBBS foundation course, the NMC said, "The foundation course of dedicated one month has been subsumed within first professional of eleven months. Foundation course will be covered after usual teaching hours or on weekends/holidays."
"Thus first professional has been compressed to eleven months instead of thirteen months. Vacations have also been curtailed during first, second and third professionals by one month. Therefore each subsequent professional phase of training has been compressed by one month only. Final professional examinations will take place in June , 2026. Care has been taken not to curtail practical and clinical postings. Internship will remain for one year only. Even though it appears that the course duration is shortened, actual teaching and training hours have been preserved through absorption of buffer time available during the course such as dedicated one month foundation course and vacations."
The tentative academic curriculum for MBBS batch starting in February 2022 is attached below:


The Prevalent Covid Safety Measures Guidelines at respective State/UTs are to be followed strictly, the NMC notice added.
To view the official NMC notification, click here