Six months after they had to abandon their courses and return home when Russian forces attacked Ukraine, Indian students enrolled in the medical colleges there have a new challenge – resumption of offline classes and exams.
Some universities in Kiev, capital of war-hit Ukraine, have informed students about resumption of offline classes from September and mandatory examination “Krok” to be conducted in October in offline mode.
According to norms in Ukraine, in the third year of their studies, students from medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy have to appear for KROK-1.
After completion, if final year, the students have to sit for the state’s licensing exam, KROK-2, for certification to be a doctor or pharmacist.
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According to sources, around 20,000 medical students from India were evacuated in March after the war escalated.
The students have been staging protests demanding admission in Indian medical colleges as a one-time measure.
The Centre had told Lok Sabha last month that there are no such provisions in the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 and the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 as well as the regulations to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to medical colleges in India.
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