SC issues notices to govt. on extended internship, fee charged from medical students who fled war, pandemic

SC issued announcement to the Union authorities connected a petition challenging the “extended play of internship” students whose aesculapian studies overseas were interrupted by warfare and pandemic, File | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (May 13, 2025) issued announcement to the Union authorities connected a petition challenging the “extended play of internship” students whose medical studies overseas were interrupted by warfare and pandemic person to acquisition successful India.

A Bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai decided to get the government’s effect connected the petition filed by the Association of Doctors and Medical Students, represented by advocator Zulfiker Ali P.S., who argued that these students, who were unfortunate successful having to fly warfare and pandemic and instrumentality to India, were besides charged a monthly ₹5,000 by Indian aesculapian colleges during the full play of their two-year internship termed arsenic ‘clinical clerkship’.

“These aesculapian students from overseas universities had joined the people successful 2016 and 2017. In the mean scenario, their people would person been implicit successful 2022 and 2023, respectively. Had they graduated successful the mean course, the students who joined the aesculapian people successful 2016 would person started aesculapian signifier either successful precocious 2022 oregon aboriginal 2023,” the petition said.

Likewise, the students who joined the people successful 2017 would person launched their aesculapian signifier either successful precocious 2023 oregon aboriginal 2024.

“The pandemic and/or Russia-Ukraine warfare had interrupted their acquisition and they person already mislaid much than 1 twelvemonth to implicit the course,” the petition argued.

The petition said the students had to permission their offline aesculapian studies overseas but had completed their people done online classes supplemented with offline applicable and objective training.

The petition submitted that the circulars and nationalist notices requiring other years of internship and monthly clerkship interest were contradictory to the Regulations framed nether the National Medical Commission Act.

Published - May 13, 2025 10:27 p.m. IST