Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.)
The Medical Council of India has notified the following regulations from academic year
1997-98. These regulations recommend :
(1)  That the medical curriculum should be oriented towards training students to
undertake the responsibilities of a physician of first contact who is capable of
looking after the preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of
medicine.
(2)  The training though broad based and flexible should aim to provide an
educational experience of the essentials required for heath care in our country.
(3)  To undertake the responsibilities of service situations which is a changing
condition and of various types. It is essential to provide adequate placement
training tailored to the needs of such services as to enable the graduates to
become effective instruments of implementation of those requirements. To avail
of opportunities and be able to conduct professional requirements the graduate
shall endeavour to have acquired basic training in different aspects of medical
care.
(4)  The importance of the community aspects of health care and of rural heath care
services is to be recognized. This aspect of education and training of graduates
should be adequately recognized in the prescribed curriculum. Its importance
has been systematically upgraded over the past years and adequate exposure to
such experiences should be available throughout all the three phases of
education and training. This has to be further emphasized and intensified by
providing exposure to field practice areas and training during the internship
period. The aim of the period of rural training during internship is to enable the
fresh graduates to function efficiently under such settings.
(5)  The educational experience should emphasize health and community orientation
instead of only disease and hospital orientation or being concentrated - on
curative – aspects. As such all the basic concepts of modern scientific medical
education are to be adequately dealt with.