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The National Medical Commission (NMC) is intensifying measures to eliminate “ghost faculty” from medical colleges by stressing the significance of implementing the Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system (AEBAS) for faculty members prior to inspections. The NMC has persistently urged medical colleges to adopt AEBAS. Additionally, the Commission has released guidelines through its Medical Assessment and Rating Board to streamline the process of establishing new medical colleges, expanding existing institutions, and tackling issues like ghost faculty. These updated regulations are slated to be enforced from the upcoming academic year, according to the apex medical education regulatory body.
The guidelines mandate the provision of daily AEBAS records for essential staff (faculty, residents, and support personnel), preferably integrated with facial recognition, to be accessible to the NMC and posted on the medical college’s website in the form of a daily attendance dashboard. Alongside these directives, the NMC has announced that the Post Graduate Medical Education Board will adhere to a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for immediate implementation. This SOP aims to evaluate the examination process during inspections for recognition, increased intake, or renewal of course accreditation. Medical colleges and institutes are instructed to conduct examinations adhering to the prevailing guidelines outlined in PGMER and maintain comprehensive documentation, including video records of the examination process, examiner details, case particulars for examination, students’ theses, and related data.
The notice issued by the NMC emphasizes that there will no longer be physical or online inspections of the examination process. Universities are encouraged to proceed with conducting examinations as per their schedules. The assessment of medical colleges and institutes will occur post-examination, evaluating aspects like infrastructure, clinical and investigative resources, facilities, and examination details outlined earlier. This assessment will replace the former method of physical or online inspection of the examination process.
