NMC recommends Health Ministry to withdraw 3 CPS Diploma Courses

The post-graduation medical education board (PGMEB) of the National Medical Council has recommended to the Union Ministry of Health and Welfare that three of the diploma courses of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS) Diploma courses be withdrawn. The CPS is an autonomous examination body that was established in 1912 and grants degrees under the Indian Medical Degrees Act, of 1916.

Earlier, the Maharashtra Department of Medical Education had halted admission to nearly 1,100 seats of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS) over issues linked to its affiliated hospitals. Now, the Post-Graduation Medical Education Board (PGMEB) of the National Medical Council has recommended to the Union Ministry of Health and Welfare that three diploma courses of CPS must be withdrawn.

In a letter dated April 13 to Sunil Kumar Gupta, undersecretary in the ministry, Rita Singh, undersecretary, PGMEB, said, "PGMEB recommends that the three diploma courses: diploma in pathology and bacteriology, diploma in child health and diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics, for which equivalence has been given by the ministry of health and family welfare by a letter dated April 30, 2021, should be withdrawn from next year,” as reported by Hindustan Times.

"It is informed that the matter was discussed in the Post-Graduate Medical Board meeting held on April 12, 2023, wherein it was decided that the courses run by CPS, Mumbai, do not come under the monitoring control of the National Medical Commission. Therefore, PGMEB does not agree to provide equivalence to courses of 466 students recognised by the Ministry of Health and family welfare by a letter on October 18, 2022," added the letter.

However, Dr Girish Maindarkar, president, of CPS, insisted that the circular was not a derecognition letter. “It is a recommendation by the NMC to the government,” he said.

He also added they were now waiting for the medical education department’s order to give them a date to meet.

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