What situations can be described as professional misconduct?
The MCI has enlisted 22 situations of professional misconduct.
- Violation of any MCI regulation
- Not maintaining indoor medical records
- Not displaying registration number
- Adultery or improper conduct
- Conviction by a Court of Law for offences involving moral turpitude / Criminal acts
- Indulging in sex determination tests
- Signing untrue or misleading professional certificates, reports and other documents
- Contravening provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Regulations
- Performing or enabling unqualified person to perform an abortion or any illegal operation for which there is no medical, surgical or psychological indication
- Issuing certificates of efficiency in modern medicine to unqualified or non-medical person
- Contributing to the lay press articles or interviews regarding diseases and treatments which may have the effect of advertising himself/herself or soliciting practices
- Wrongfully advertising an institution run by a physician
- Using an unusually large sign board
- Disclosing the secrets of a patient
- Refusing to act on religious account in sterility cases
- Not taking consent
- Publishing photographs of patients without consent
- Not owning responsibility of your subordinates
- Using touts or agents to procure patients.
- Claiming to be a specialist when you are not
- Carrying out in vitro fertilization (IVF)/artificial insemination without consent
- Not following ICMR guidelines in research
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