NMC seeks to tighten rules for hiring medical college faculty

India's apex medical education regulatory has proposed new eligibility qualifications for teachers to improve standards as it seeks to weed out ghost faculty and incompetent teachers.

- Priyanka Sharma

The National Medical Commission's (NMC) draft Teachers Eligibility Qualifications Regulations (TEQ) 2024 suggest specialty-wise academic qualifications for faculty, minimum experience and the maximum age till which teachers can be granted extensions.

Appointments and promotion of faculty in various teaching specialties imparting graduate and postgraduate medical education at institutions falling within the purview of the NMC has to be in accordance with the minimum qualifications and experience prescribed to maintain a standard of teaching, said the draft, issued by B Srinivas, secretary, NMC.