NMC releases revised CBME guidelines for MBBS students

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has released its revised Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) Curriculum Guidelines, 2024 for MBBS students. The medical body has dropped lesbianism, sodomy and other such acts from the MBBS syllabus following widespread criticism.

In the new syllabus, the



medical body has included topics related to the histories of gender, and sexuality-based identities and rights in India, as well as the decriminalisation of adultery and consensual adult homosexual behaviour. The revised curriculum remains unchanged on guidelines related to teaching hours, attendance and the National Exit Test (NExt).