Ophthalmology postgraduate training in India: Stirring up a hornet's nest

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 with the goal of producing competent specialists who are expected to master most of the competencies to enable them to carry out their professional duties ethically.[1] Each discipline is expected to define competencies clearly to be brought to the notice of the new entrants so that they spend all their efforts in acquiring those competencies during the 3‐year course of study. All training medical institutes, with the exception of some autonomous central institutes which are deemed universities, need an affiliation with a university for the conduct of the certifying examination for the award of MS/MD degree.