UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Update on Medical Education
Q1. As per the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, the National Medical Commission is composed of how many members (including the Chairperson)?
Q2. As informed by the National Medical Commission, the reported increase of 48,563 MBBS seats in the country occurred over which of the following periods?
- A. Academic Year 2014-15 to 2019-20
- B. Academic Year 2020-21 to 2025-26
- C. Financial Year 2025-26 to 2028-29
- D. Academic Year 2019-20 to 2024-25
Q3. The National Medical Commission, which furnishes the data on the increase in MBBS and PG seats, functions as a statutory regulator under which one of the following Union Ministries?
- A. Ministry of Education
- B. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- C. Ministry of Science and Technology
- D. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Q4. Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for establishing new medical colleges, what does the '60:40' funding pattern specifically denote?
- A. The Centre : State fund-sharing ratio for States other than North-Eastern and Special-Category States
- B. The ratio of undergraduate to postgraduate seats created in each new college
- C. The ratio of district hospitals to referral hospitals upgraded under the scheme
- D. The Centre : State fund-sharing ratio applied uniformly to all States, including North-Eastern States
Q5. Of the Rs. 15,034 crore outlay approved by the Cabinet in September 2025 for adding 10,023 medical seats, the single largest share is to be borne by which one of the following?
- A. The State Governments
- B. The Union Government
- C. The AIIMS and Institutes of National Importance
- D. Private philanthropic trusts
Q6. On which date did the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 come into effect, thereby repealing the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956?
- A. 1 August 2019
- B. 25 September 2019
- C. 25 September 2020
- D. 2 October 2020
Q7. Which one of the following was the apex statutory regulator of medical education that was superseded and replaced by the National Medical Commission?
- A. Indian Medical Association
- B. Medical Council of India
- C. Central Council of Indian Medicine
- D. National Board of Examinations
Q8. The Minimum Standards Requirements (MSR) regulations, which specify the minimum infrastructure and faculty norms for establishing new medical institutions, were notified by the National Medical Commission in which year?
- A. 2019
- B. 2020
- C. 2023
- D. 2024
Q9. When the competency-based undergraduate curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate was introduced, it revised the previous 1997 curriculum after a gap of how many years?
- A. 15 years
- B. 18 years
- C. 21 years
- D. 26 years
Q10. In the context of the 11,682 MBBS and 8,967 PG seats approved for 2025-26 'including AIIMS and INIs', the term 'INIs' refers to which one of the following?
- A. Institutes of National Importance
- B. Indian Nursing Institutes
- C. Integrated Naturopathy Institutes
- D. International Nodal Institutes
Q11. With reference to India's doctor-population ratio, consider the following statements. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- India's doctor-population ratio is estimated at 1:811.
- The World Health Organization recommends a doctor-population norm of 1:1000.
- The 1:811 estimate assumes that 80% of registered allopathic and AYUSH practitioners are available.
- India's estimated ratio of 1:811 is worse than the WHO-recommended norm.
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 1, 2 and 3
- C. 2, 3 and 4
- D. 1 and 4 only