Overview
- The National Medical Commission directed all medical colleges and universities to limit MBBS fees to the four-and-a-half-year teaching period and to stop billing students for the internship year.
- The notice says the internship, called the compulsory rotating medical internship, is a year of hospital-based training rather than formal classes, so colleges must not levy any fee for it.
- The commission cited the NMC Act 2019, CBME Guidelines 2024 and Graduate Medical Education Regulations, and pointed to Supreme Court rulings that require fee structures to be reasonable, transparent and non-exploitative.
- The commission warned of regulatory action and sent the notice to state and union territory education departments, medical directorates and college heads to drive compliance.
- The move follows complaints that some colleges billed for five to five-and-a-half years, with the directive signaling that internship-related charges should be withdrawn.