New Delhi [India], October 22: Georgia details MD graduates registration and practice rights for Indian families Georgia’s quality authority has detailed how its six‑year MD programme matches Georgia Grants Recognition to Indian Students India’s FMGL Regulations, 2021 — including the registration and right to practise that graduates receive.

For roughly 20,000 Indian students (/topic⁠/⁠indian‑students) enrolled in Georgian medical universities since 2021, recent questions about graduate practice rights have caused concern. A September reply by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to a grievance, circulated on social media with captions declaring the Georgian degree “invalid”, triggered calls from anxious parents.

On October 14, Georgia’s National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE), the agency under the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth that accredits every medical programme in the country, published an updated 17-point statement explaining its position.

What the FMGL Regulations require

India’s Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate (FMGL) Regulations, notified on November 18, 2021, apply to Indians who enrolled in foreign medical schools after that date. Regulation 4 requires a course of at least 54 months; a 12-month internship in the same institution; English as the medium of instruction; and the subjects listed in Schedule I. Regulation 4(b) adds that the graduate must be registered with the regulatory body of the country of study, with a right to practise “at par” with that country’s own citizens. After that come the FMGE (or NExT when introduced), a further supervised

internship in India, and permanent registration.

The NCEQE statement confirms that the MD programme comprises “no fewer than 360 ECTS credits” and “cannot be shorter than six academic years”; that “the sixth year is fully dedicated to a mandatory internship (internatura)” at the university’s clinics and

teaching hospitals; that in English‑taught programmes “the entire teaching and learning process, including clinical training, is conducted in English".

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