No level playing field? How the FMGE is said to be ‘tougher’ than domestic MBBS exams

When the results for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) June 2026 was released, the pass rate had plummeted sharply to just 12.4%, triggering student protests, and scrutiny over what is locking foreign medical graduates out of medical practice.While thousands of Indian students head overseas annually for medical degrees, comprising a heavily monitored segment under the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), parliamentary disclosures indicate that centralised tracking of specific discipline-wise student outflows remains complex.