PG medical admissions second round of choice filling begins

A statement from the Admission Committee for Professional Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPPGMEC) said that the second round of choice filling to get admissions postgraduate medical courses such as MD, MS, diploma and MDS has started from Saturday.

The statement said that the second round of choice filling will end on October 20. The committee will upload details of choices made online on the same day. Next day, on October 21 the committee will allot seats and students will have to confirm their admissions by paying fees during October 27 to November 1. Students have to report at the help centers with their documents from October 27 to November 2, the statement said.

In the first round of admissions 1,129 students of the total 1,774 admitted students had reported to help centers and confirmed their admissions. There are a total 1,806 PG medical seats in the state.

As per rules, 15% of all UG medical seats and 50% of seats in PG courses in the state are reserved for the all India quota students. The remaining seats are state quota seats which are further divided as government, management and NRI quota seats.

On September 20, the Gujarat Intern Doctors' Association and Gujarat MBBS Students' Association filed a writ petition in Gujarat high court against the state health department’s decision to admit MBBS students who have completed their Class 12 from Gujarat but did their MBBS in other states in the state quota of post graduation.

Medical students associations had said that so far only the students who have completed MBBS in Gujarat and who are of domicile of Gujarat were eligible for getting admission in state quota PG medical. However, the state government has now decided to allow students who completed MBBS outside Gujarat to take part for both government and private PG seats of Gujarat.
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