Doctors Urge Extra NEET SS Counselling to Fill Vacant Seats

• Around 500 superspeciality seats remain vacant after three rounds.
• NEET-SS candidates are demanding an extra counselling round immediately.
• The Supreme Court earlier highlighted concerns over unfilled NEET-SS seats.

Emphasizing that numerous superspeciality positions remain vacant despite three rounds of National Eligibility-Entrance Test Superspeciality (NEET-SS) 2024 counseling, candidates are calling on Government officials to conduct another counseling round to avoid leaving these vacant seats.

Medical Dialogues previously reported that over 1500 super-specialty seats remained unfilled despite two rounds of National Eligibility-Entrance Test Super Speciality (NEET-SS) 2024 Counseling. At that time, the physicians had pressed the officials, such as the National Board of Examinations (NBE), to reduce the cut-off before the upcoming counseling phase.

As a result, in July, NBEMS lowered the qualifying percentile for NEET SS 2024 stray round counseling and declared that all candidates who took the NEET SS-2024 exam with an eligible broad-speciality degree (MD/MS/DNB) would be permitted to join the stray round of NEET-SS Super Specialty Counseling 2024.

However, it has been reported that approximately four to five hundred super-specialty seats remain unfilled even after three rounds of counseling. In light of this, NEET-SS 2024 candidates are requesting the authorities to conduct an additional round of counseling.

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Earlier this year, the Supreme Court acknowledged the problem of vacant super specialty positions. In reviewing a series of petitions submitted by successful candidates who had withdrawn from NEET-SS courses, the Supreme Court acknowledged the matter and instructed the Central Government to convene a meeting with stakeholders from all States/UTs and private medical colleges to address the vacancies for the forthcoming academic year. In 2023, the Apex Court emphasized the significance of filling the seats for super-specialty medical programs.

In conversation with Medical Dialogues about the matter, Dr. Dhruv Chauhan said, "It is very unfortunate that when the country is lacking superspecialist doctors, the NEET SS seats are remaining vacant due to extremely high fee structure, lack of infrastructure and good teaching faculties because of low pay scale given to them."

"The education system in medicine needs reforms for which the current regime of government is not ready!" he added.