Online NEET-PG Confirmed, will be in October/November, Published in DC

This piece of  NEWS published in Aug 28, 2012 of DeccanChronical.

Summary:

1. Online NEET confirmed.
2. Exam at End of the year, (official announcement of exam date pending).
3. NBE will conduct the exam.
4. Autonomous institutes not covered under NEET.

The first-ever Common “online test” for Post Graduate (PG) medical students is most likely to be conducted at the end of this year.

The Union health ministry, which approved the new “online” method on Monday, decided to conduct the exam in October or November this year.

Sources in the ministry disclosed that the file has already been sent for the approval of Union health minister and the final date of the test will be notified this week. Earlier, some senior health ministry officials has opposed thenew move to conduct common online test. They had advised that the old-pencil format should be used.

However, in a meeting held on Monday the new technique developed by the National Board of Examination (NBE) on the lines of IIM test-got the final approval.

The new method has been replicated from the IIM model-an “online test” format for the studentswhich they introduced three years back. The PG medical test will be conducted for all private and government medical colleges, barring All India Institute of Medical College (AIIMS), PGI Chandigarh and JIPMErPondicherry.

“These are autonomous institutes and and can conduct their own exams under the Act of Parliament. These institutes have been exempted from the common test,” said a senior official in the health ministry. AIIMS conduct PG exam for 50 per cent of the government seats on behalf of DGHS which comes to around 4,000 seats.

The NBE which is ready with the new system says that it offers flexibility for candidates to choose any date in the ten-day period for the test. Besides invigilators, CCTVs and biometric identification systems will also be put in place.

NOTE: This article is published in newspaper yet the official announcement form Health ministry, DGHS or NBE is not available. So the exam dates are still only pridiction. Lets wait for the official announcement.

Some Ministry officials does not want online NEET-PG

Summary of this article:

1. Some ministry officers are trying to prevent online (CBT Mode) for Neet-PG.
2. There is a official meeting to review this on Monday.
3. NBE has already prepared plan to conduct a single online test for PG entrance on a CBT Mode (As has already been done for the DNB CET Aug 2012).
4. If online test happens students will have option to choose the date of exam out of the 10 days of examination. (Although this has not happened in DNB CET and dnb schedule was predeclared and the time and date of exam was decided by NBE and students were not given any option to choose)

A section of senior health ministry officials, whose children are all set to appear for the post-graduate medical entrance examinations, are apparently opposing the government’s move to conduct “common online test” for the entrance exams in the lines of the IIM.
Sources say that these officials feel that their children might not be “comfortable” in the particular format. “These officials have advised that the old pencil-paper format should be used,” a senior health ministry official revealed.
Incidentally, the common online test has been approved by the ministry. Following the objection being raised by this particular section of officials, the ministry has called a review meeting on Monday.
Members of National Board of Examination (NBE) and Medical Council of India (MCI) will be present in the review meeting.
It may be recalled that the NBE has already decided to replicate the IIM model, an “online test” format, for the students. It is unlikely that the NBE will change its stance. Union health secretary P.K. Pradhan, however, said that “the meeting has been called to see the arrangement being done by the NBE and even finalise the date”. The proposal for the new method of testing had already been approved by health secretary.
Despite the objections, the NBE officials said that the new system “offers flexibility for candidates to choose any date in the 10-day period for the test.” While, the format is same as followed by IIM, the 10-day window period allows students to appear for the test at their convenience, making it user-friendly. Besides invigilators, CCTVs and biometric identification systems will also be put in place for the exam.
“The curriculum has been prepared by the MCI and the bank of question papers will be prepared by NBE,” said a senior official in the health ministry. The NBE officials say that the new method will put the private coaching on the back foot and since there will be different set of questions.
Earlier this year, the health ministry had approached the NBE for conducting CET for PG students after the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) expressed its inability in conducting it, citing lack of manpower.
Approximately 60,000 students appear every year for various PG medical examinations. The AIIMS conduct PG entrance for 50 per cent of government seats-which comes to around 4,000 seats.


Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/some-babus-don%E2%80%99t-want-online-test-598

New Updates on mci website about NEET-PG and NEET-UG

MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA PUBLIC NOTICE

Dated: 25/08/2012
It is brought to the notice of all concerned that the Regulations framed under Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 with prior approval of Central Government provides for following time schedule for admission to the M.B.B.S., Postgraduate and Super-specialty medical courses. Universities, Medical Colleges, institutions, State Governments including all authorities granting admission in medical courses mentioned above are hereby directed to strictly adhere to time schedule for admissions in various courses laid down in the Regulation failing which the appropriate proceeding prescribed in the Regulations of Medical Council of India shall be initiated and contempt proceeding as envisaged in the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Priya Gupta vs. State of Chattisgarh rendered on 8.5.2012 is also likely to be initiated.

Time-Schedule for Completion of the Admission Process for Postgraduate Medical Courses as notified in the Medical Council of India Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000

Schedule for admission	Postgraduate Courses		Super– Speciality Courses
	All India Quota	StateQuota
Conduct of Entrance Examination	2nd Sunday	Mid-January to end January	May-June
Declaration of result of qualifying examination/entrance examination	2nd week of February	By 14th Feb.	By 15th June
1st Round of Counselling	1st March to 15th March	To be over by 10th April	To be over by 10th July
Last date for joining the allotted college and course	31stnMarchn@@	17th April	17th July
2nd Round of counseling for allotment of seats from waiting list	By 7th April	By 24th April	By 24th July
Last date for joining for candidates allotted seats in 2nd round of counseling	14th April	30th April	31st July
Commencement of Academic Session	2nd May	2nd May	1st August
Last date upto which students can be admitted against vacancies arising due to any reason from the waiting list	31st May	31st May	30th September

NOTE:-@@ Head of the Colleges should intimate the vacancies existing after the last date for joining the course by the candidate concerned in respect of the All India Quota of seats to the DGHS within seven days and latest by 6th April for postgraduate courses and 23rd July for super-speciality courses.