MCI Rules and Regulations about Studying MBBS Abroad

It is necessary for all Medical aspirants; especially those who are aspiring for study MBBS abroad, to know all about rule and regulations of MCI. Medical Council of India (MCI) is a premier medical body of the country. It has the responsibility of setting standards in medical education and maintaining it. It is pre-requisite for the foreign university MBBS degree holders to get sanction from the MCI for starting a medical practice in India. It means until and unless foreign degrees are approved by MCI, the medical students holding them cannot start practicing in India. MCI has a set of rules and regulation for students aspiring to study MBBS abroad. Every Indian medical aspirant has to follow them in letter and spirit.

We are giving below some major Rules and Regulations of MCI:

1. The medical qualification confirmed by the Indian Embassy can be considered as recognized by MCI for issuing Eligibility Certificates, which entitle the candidates to appear at Screening test and the grant of provisional/permanent registration with the State Medical Council concerned.

2. The Medical aspirants desirous of studying MBBS course abroad must verify the MCI status of the university to which they are going to take admission and its fee structure. 

3. Any 12th class pass medical aspirant, who is desirous of pursuing MBBS abroad on or after 15th March, 2002, has to contact MCI for issuing an Eligibility Certificate for that purpose.

 4. Eligibility Certificate Form is available with MCI office and must be submitted with all the relevant documents including a demand draft for Rs.500/- in favour of Secretary, Medical Council of India, New Delhi.

5. As per MCI Rules for studying MBBS abroad, no medical aspirant shall be permitted to appear at the Screening Test for the purpose of registration in India without producing Eligibility Certificate.

6. No aspirant will be allowed admission in MBBS in abroad until He/she has completed the age of 17 years on/before 31st December of the year of admission.

7. The Eligibility Certificate only entitles the medical aspirants to do an undergraduate degree in medicine in a foreign university.

8. If anyone of MCI Rules for studying MBBS abroad is not adhered to by the medical aspirants, their certificates are liable to be canceled.  

Top Russian Medical institutes/universities approved by MCI

Any medical aspirant holding any primary medical qualification from any institute outside India and desirous of registering with Medical Council of India or state medical council on provisional or permanent basis has to qualify Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which has been introduced by the Screening Test Regulations 2002.

 Following medical institute/school/college/ universities in Russia are MCI approved:

Altai State Medical University

Amur State Medical Academy

Arkhangelsk State Medical Academy

Astrakhan State Medical Academy

Bashkir State Medical University

Cecenja State University

Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy, Institute of Medical Education

Cita State Medical Academy

Cuvassia State University Medical Faculty

Dagestan State Medical Academy

Habarovsk State Medical Institute

I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy

Irkutsk State Medical University

Ivanovo State Medical Academy

Izhevsk State Medical Academy

Jewish State Academy (Moscow), Faculty of Medicine

Kabardino­Balkarian State University, Medical Faculty

Kemerovo State Medical Academy

Kirov State Medical Institute

Krasnoyarsk Medical Academy

Kuban State Medical Academy

Kursk State Medical University is the first university in Russia to offer full English Medium Studies.

Tver State Medical Academy

Kazan State Medical University, Medical Faculty

M.K. Ammosov Sakha (Yakutsk) State University, Faculty of Medicine

Military Medical Academy

Mordovian Ogarev State University, Faculty of Medicine

Moscow Medical Stomatology Institute, Medical Faculty

Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

Moscow State University (M.V. Lomonosov)

Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine

North Ossetian State Medical Academy

Novgorod State University (Jaroslav the Wise), Faculty of Medicine

Novosibirsk Medical Institute

Omsk State Medical Academy

Orenburg State Medical Academy

Orel State University, Medical Institute

Osh State University, Medical Institute

Penza state medical university

The people’s Friendship University of Russia, Faculty of Medicine

Perm State Medical Academy

Petrozavodsk State University, Faculty of Medicine

Rostov State Medical University

Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov, (formerly known as Russian State Medical University (RSMU)

Ryazan State Medical University, Faculty post graduates in English

Saint Petersburg State Mechnikov Medical Academy

Saint Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies

Saint Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University

Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy

Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Medicine

Samara State Medical University, Medical Institute

Saratov State Medical University

Siberian State Medical University

Smolensk State Medical Academy

Stavropol State Medical Academy

Tver State Medical Academy

Tyumen State Medical Academy (TSMA)

Ural State Medical Academy

Vladivostok State Medical University

The Volgograd State Medical University

Voronezh N. N. Burdenko State Medical Academy

Yakutsk State University

Yaroslavl State Medical Academy, Medical Faculty