National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET-PG) for admission to PG medical courses

The Medical Council of India (MCI) will for the first time hold an All India level examination for admission to post-graduate medical courses across the country from 2012. The examination will be conducted in Jan-Feb 2012 for admissions in the academic year 2012-2013.

MCI in a statement said, ‘The Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to Medical Post-graduate Courses across the country i.e. NEET-PG shall be held in Jan-Feb 2012 for admissions in the academic year 2012-2013.’

The syllabus for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET-PG) will be that of MBBS and more information in this regard would soon be made available by the Medical Council of India.

"The Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) would be based on the MBBS syllabus as well as the knowledge that needs to be acquired during internship.The distribution of questions, model questions and method of tie breaking for ranking would be placed on the website in the due course," MCI said.

The Supreme Court had in March 2011 ruled that MCI will oversee the common entrance test each for undergraduate and postgraduate medical programmes.

Around 40,000 students are admitted to undergraduate programmes every year while 19,000 students go for postgraduate courses. There are about 300 government and private medical colleges in the country.