This appalling percentage includes aspiring doctors and dentists who passed MBBS and BDS examinations from Nepal medical institutions and other countries.

Their failure in this examination bars them from practicing medicine in Nepal, as of now.

Students Performance in NMC Licensing Examination:
Following are the statistics:

• 912 MBBS and BDS applied for the examination conducted out of 903 who appeared for the exam
• Only 262 persons passed the examination which resulted in a 29 percent success rate
• According to NMC Chairman Dharma Kanta Baskota, usually, only 20 to 25 percent of students who write the exam secure pass marks
• More than 60 percent of the applicants are students who had failed to succeed in their previous attempt
• NMC permits the aspirants to make innumerable attempts until they pass the exam
• Out of the 903 applicants who wrote their exam, 500 students were re-attempting their exam
• 150 students were fresh Nepali graduates while the remaining 350 were fresh graduates from other countries
• According to Baskota, usually, over 80 percent of foreign medical students fail their licensing exams, whereas 80 percent of the Nepali medical students pass their exam

About NMC:
NMC is a statutory Nepali body that governs medical education and regulates the registration of doctors in Nepal. The results of the NMA-conducted exams are published on the same day as the examination. These exams are conducted at an interval of every four months.

Conclusion:
We hope that the new Nepal medical education reforms will be able to provide quality education to these students and gradually improve their performance in the field.

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Nepali doctors’ community has warned the Nepal Government of holding stern protests across the nation if the latter fails to revoke the affiliation granted to National Medical College (NMC).

NMA said the government’s move to grant affiliation to new medical college in the Valley is against all the agreements government had reached with NMA and Dr Govinda KC.

This shows the government’s irresponsible nature towards country’s medical sector, NMA added.

“If government turns a deaf ear to our warning, we will be forced to resort to the protest that could lead to shutdown of health institutions and the government will have to take the responsibility for the resulting situation,” said Dr Muktiram Shrestha, President of National Medical Association (NMA), the umbrella of Nepali doctors.

Dr Shrestha found fault with granting affiliation to medical colleges that are not popular and do not have adequate infrastructure, and urged the government to scrap the affiliation.

This decision by the government is significant in the light of the fact that the government had entered into an agreement with NMC and Dr Govinda KC stating that no affiliations will be granted to medical colleges in the Kathmandu Valley for ten years.

Dr Govinda KC, a senior orthopedic surgeon at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), has been undertaking protests over the years seeking reforms in the Nepali medical education sector.

Moratorium in affiliation to new medical colleges in Kathmandu Valley has been one of his key demands towards decentralizing medical services in remote parts of the country.

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