India has allocated a detailed advisory for forthcoming students who want to study medicine in China, precautioning them of the pitfalls, including poor pass percentage, compulsory learning of the official spoken language Putonghua and strict criteria to qualify to practice in India. The advisory was issued as thousands of Indians studying in Chinese medical colleges are presently stuck at home for more than two years due to Beijing’s COVID visa ban. As per the official estimates, more than 23,000 Indian students are presently enrolled in various Chinese universities.The plurality of the enrolled students is medical students.



After over two years of COVID visa constraints, China has begun issuing visas to a selected number of students to return. However, most of them struggled to return as there are no direct flights, and the two countries are still in discussions to work out limited flight facilities keeping in mind Beijing’s quarantine restrictions. Meanwhile, the Chinese medical colleges began enrolment for new students from India and other countries.

On Thursday, the Indian Embassy in Beijing issued a comprehensive advisory against this backdrop for students from India wanting to study medicine in China. The advisory has the results of the studies, which summarized tribulations faced by Indian students in China and the strict criteria they confront to qualify for pursuing and practicing medicine in India.

A remarkable feature of the advisory is that only 16% of the students passed the required test between 2015 & 2021 to qualify to practice in India. Only 6,387 out of 40,417 students who appeared in the Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) Examination of the Medical Council of India (MCI) from 2015 to 2021 cleared it.

News Source: News 18