BOARD OF GOVERNORS
IN SUPERSESSION OF MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
VALID PUBLICATION AS
th
PER NEW MCI GUIDELINES
New Delhi, the 14 February, 2022 GAZETTE DATED : 14/02/2022
(NEW GUIDELINES)
No. MCI-12(2)/2019-Med.Misc./189334. - In exercise of powers conferred by Section 33 of the
Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), in Supersession of the Medical Council of India with the
previous sanction of the Central Government hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the
“Minimum Qualications for Teachers in Medical Institutions Regulations 1998, namely:-
1. (i) These regulations may be called the “Minimum Qualications for Teachers in Medical
Institutions (Amendment) Regulations, 2019”.
(ii) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Ofcial Gazette.
2. In the “Minimum Qualications for Teachers in Medical Institutions Regulations, 1998”, in Schedule
1, clause 6 as amended vide notication dated 01.11.2018, shall be substituted with the following:-
“The Teachers in a medical college or institution having a total of 8 years teaching experience out of
which at least 4 years teaching experience as Assistant Professor with atleast one research
publication in indexed journals (as indicated in table) gained after obtaining postgraduate degree
shall be recognized as post graduate teacher in broad specialties.
I. Broad Specialities (MD/MS/DNB)
Posts Academic Qualification Teaching & Research Exp.
Professor/Addl. A post graduate (I) Associate Professor in the subject for 3 years in a
Professor (8 qualication MD/MS/ permitted/approved/ recognizedm e d i c a l c o l l e g e /
years of Post PG DNB in the concerned institution with three Research publications (at least
Experience) subject and as per these two as Associate Professor) (only original papers,
Regulations meta-analysis, systematic reviews, and case series that
are published in journals included in Medline, Pubmed
VALID PUBLICATION AS Central, Citation index, Sciences Citation index,
PER MCI NEW GAZETTE : Expanded Embase, Scopus, Directory of Open access
FEBRUARY, 2022 journals (DoAJ) will be considered). The author must
(NEW GUIDELINES) be amongst rst three or should be the Corresponding
JOURNAL INDEXED WITH Author.
"CITATION INDEX" (ii) Should have completed the Basic course in Medical
Education Technology from Institution(s) designated
by MCI.
(iii) Should have completed the Basic course in biomedical
research from Institution(s) designated by MCI.
Further provided that for the transitory period of 2
years w.e.f. the date of this notication, the
appointment / promotion to the post of Professor can be
made by the institution in accordance with the
“Minimum Qualications for Teachers in Medical
Institutions Regulations, 1998” as prevailing before
issuance of this notication.
