Importance of Registration (Different Courses, Recognition schedule 1 of MCI Act)

A man in Vashi puts up a board saying 'Dr' and treats patients for six months. A nurse notices that his degree is from an institution nobody has heard of. Is he a doctor, a fraud, or something in between? The law answers by asking one question: is his name on the register, and does his qualification appear in the list of recognised qualifications? This topic explains why that register matters so much, and what the first schedule of the old Medical Council Act had to do with it.

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Registration on the National or State Medical Register, on the basis of a recognised qualification, is what makes a person a registered medical practitioner in law; many statutes attach rights, protections and duties to that status, and practice without it is an offence.

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