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
• Breaching the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Regulations
• Performing or allowing an 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 their 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.