Our Special CorrespondentNew Delhi: The Union cabinet has approved a common final MBBS exam across the country to be called the National Exit Test (NEXT) and left it to states to decide whether practitioners from alternative health systems may prescribe modern medicines. The amendments follow recommendations by a parliamentary standing committee that had rejected the bill's proposal for a separate national licentiate exam for MBBS doctors to be able to practice medicine. The standing committee had called for the final-year MBBS exam to serve as the licentiate exam. The amendment would mean MBBS final-year students in colleges across the country would have a common exit exam. "We are happy the government has eliminated the proposals for a separate licentiate exam and the bridge course.

Source: The Telegraph March 28, 2018 21:11 UTC