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emerged as a guardian angel of postgraduate
medical education in the country, stepping into
territories where nobody had gone before.
While being an autonomous body of
the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of India, the National Board today
offers postgraduate programmes in ninety-nine
medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties,
many of which had a nascent beginning under its
safeguard.
Breaking new ground in the evaluation of fresh
entrants, be it the certification of foreign medical
graduates to practise in India, or those keen
to pursue postgraduate programmes in diverse
healthcare streams and turn themselves into
specialists, National Board of Examinations in
Medical Sciences conducts a number of entrance
examinations; defines curricula, standards, and
norms of postgraduate residency training; and
conducts exit examinations in each of the many
postgraduate disciplines.
Nurturing an avant-garde approach, the board
stablished in the year 1975 with the service players, and carving new temples and nests the philosophy to build, strengthen and
vision of raising the bar of postgraduate new paradigms of learning across the rural-urban homogenize standards of postgraduate medical
Emedical education in the country, the saga space. From a modest, Cinderella-like beginning, education in the country, and inspire excellence
of National Board of Examinations in Medical this colourful voyage has taken many a storm, but in learning through a progressive innovative
Sciences is a narrative of out-of-box thinking, battling through challenging times the National participatory approach. Subliminal to this
ingenuity, partnering with existing healthcare Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences has schema, it partners today with a robust network
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