National Medical Commission Cancels Regressive CBME Guidelines, Revised Framework to be Released in Due Course

Written By Academic Freedom

06 September 2024 | The Times of India

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has cancelled the recently released Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) Curriculum Guidelines for 2024. In a notice issued on September 5, 2024, the NMC confirmed that the CBME 2024 guidelines have been officially withdrawn and are no longer valid. The guidelines will be revised and updated in the future.
The withdrawal follows protests from transgender and disability rights groups, who criticized the new guidelines for MBBS students, describing them as discriminatory and biased against transgender and disabled individuals. The groups have condemned the guidelines as promoting ableist and transphobic perspectives in medical education.

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