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The Beginning

The birth of the National Board
of Examinations in Medical

Sciences dates back to the year

1975, when the republic was
still very young and

postgraduate medical education

was still in its infancy. The
standards of postgraduate

medical education varied from
Himalayan highs to lows of

unspeakable despair. The
developed world, taking cognizance of these despicable lows, had decided to derecognize the Indian

degrees and doctors. Alarmed at this global outcry, the Government of India gave birth to a new body,

naming it National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences.

The beginning was humble. A petite office in the basement of the National Medical Library and its

neighbouring building which housed the National Academy of Medical Sciences. Sitting next to
country’s mightiest medical institution, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in New Delhi, its

spirit rubbed its élan vital in no time upon the National Board.

Growing from strength to strength, inch by inch, the National Board of Examinations in

Medical Sciences is today blessed with quarters any medical education body should be proud of.

Surrounded by rich green pastures
that breathe life, fitted with modern

offices, it is housed in a seven-storied
well-lit building in Dwarka, a Delhi

township named after the fabled

capital of god-king Krishna, where
the flora and fauna stir the mind. No

wonder, this young capital of the
National Board, which was unveiled

in 2006, has been a birthing ground

for many innovative ideas.