Is membership in a medical society/association mandatory for a doctor?
“1.2.2 Membership in Medical Society: For the advancement of his profession, a physician should affiliate with associations and societies of allopathic medical professions and involve actively in the functioning of such bodies.
1.2.3 A physician should participate in professional meetings as part of Continuing Medical Education programmes, for at least 30 hours every 5 years, organised by reputed professional academic bodies or any other authorised organisations. The compliance of this requirement shall be informed regularly to Medical Council of India or the State Medical Councils as the case may be.”
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Continuing Medical Education is mandatory fora modern doctor to keep himself updated. That an occur only if he participates in CME programmes on a regular basis. MCI has mooted a points system to enable the physician to easily get his delicensing done. It is done in many countries. There is no room for doubting it’s necessity. Otherwise the doctor will be shelved in the gutter as an outdated product. His licence should be cancelled.