Medical education in crisis amid percentile controversy

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: On September 1, the Medical Education Commission (MEC) published the integrated results of the Medical Education Common Entrance Examination - Bachelor Level (MECEE-BL), 2025, qualifying as many as 7,847 candidates who had taken the entrance exam as eligible for pursuing a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree. The 50 percentile cut-off score for the merit list was determined to be 49.5 points in the entrance exam.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=1232314357823833

By Biken K Dawadi

Nepal’s medical education sector is far from being healthy and is headed towards a crisis

Please log in or subscribe to access the full content.

Just in

OPINION

National Trading of Nature Corporation?

Editorial

Tightening Borders, Testing Lives

screening-passengers-Parsa-border-point_20200323080742.jpg

POLITICS

Debate on special convention in NC has ended: Thapa

Republica watch

FDI commitment reaches nearly Rs 41.79 billion in...

High-Level Commission formed to probe wealth of po...

Balen Cabinet after Reshuffle-1776261208.webp

Nepal records highest LPG imports in three months

More in Politics

POLITICS

Home Minister Gurung under mounting pressure to resign over shareholding controve...

Minister Gurung is under mounting pressure to resign over undisclosed shareholdings linked to a money-laundering accused businessman, as opposition parties and civil society demand an independent prob...

POLITICS

Muslim Commission submits report to Gandaki Province Chief

Op-Ed

Rethinking the ‘India First’ Tradition

Open Letter to PM: Resolve Bhutanese Refugee Crisis,...

Smart Technology, Poor Choices: The AI Allocation Pr...

Reversing Nepal’s Deindustrialization Curve

Society

Society

Transport services barred from operating outside bus park

The metropolis had earlier issued a public notice on April 7, urging both long- and short-distance buses to operate from within the bus park. A meeting chaired by Acting Mayor Sunita Dangol on Mond...

Society