Ahmedabad: NMC seeks details of stipends paid to medical students

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed all medical colleges and health institutions to submit details of stipends paid to undergraduate medical interns, postgraduate (PG) resident doctors, senior resident doctors and PG students in super-specialty courses in 2023-24.

The college administrations have been asked to submit the details by April 23. 

The NMC’s direction comes in after the Supreme Court’s order in this matter.

Sources said there have been complaints of non-payment of stipends and disparity in stipend amounts between UG and PG students.

In Jan this year, the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) had written to the Union ministry of health and family welfare, asking the ministry to order GMERS Valsad to start paying the first and second-year post MBBS diploma course trainees the same stipend amount given to MD, MS and DNB trainees. Sources said that GMERS Valsad college was not doing so despite the NBEMS’s instructions.

In Feb 2023, the NBEMS had written to the ministry that the board had received several complaints from MBBS diploma students in Gujarat’s govt medical colleges.

They alleged they were not being given the same amount of stipend that was given to MD, MS, DNB trainees.

The state health department in 2021 had fixed the MBBS diploma first and second-year trainees’ stipend at Rs 63,000-Rs 68,000 per month.

However, MD, MS and DNB trainees were being given Rs 84,000-Rs 85,400 per month.