National Medical Education Act, 2019

Chapter-1
Preliminary

1. Short Title and Commencement: (1) This Act may be cited as the "National Medical Education Act, 2075."

(2) This Act shall commence immediately. 2. Definitions: Unless the subject or context otherwise requires, in this Act,-

(a) "Commission" means the Medical Education Commission pursuant to Section 3.

(b) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Commission.

(c) "Constituent Teaching Institution" means a constituent campus, medical college or teaching institution providing medical education operated under the ownership and investment of the university itself.

(d) "Higher Education" means medical education provided at bachelor level or above.

(e) "Vice-Chairperson" means the Vice-Chairperson of the Commission.

(f) "Medical Education" means education of all disciplines and levels relating to the health profession (health professional education).

(g) "Medical Education Expert" means an expert who provides service, teaching and research in any discipline of health service, and said term also includes a medical education methodologist.

(h) "Prescribed" or "as prescribed" means prescribed or as prescribed in the rules made under this Act.

(i) "Director" means the Director pursuant to Section 29.

(j) "Directorate" or "Board" means the Directorate or Board pursuant to Section 28.

(k) "Council" means the Technical Education and Vocational Training Council established pursuant to prevailing law.

(l) "Instructor" means a person appointed to teach at the certificate level of a teaching institution.

(m) "Academy" means an academy established pursuant to prevailing law to provide medical education.

(n) "Merit List" means the order of merit determined based on the results of examinations as specified by the Commission and other prescribed bases.

(o) "University" means a university established pursuant to prevailing law to provide or cause to provide medical education.

(p) "Teacher (Faculty)" means a professor, associate professor and assistant professor who teaches, provides or causes to provide teaching, service and research in a teaching institution providing medical education, having obtained at least a post-graduate degree in the relevant subject for teaching higher education.

(q) "Tuition Fee" means the admission, teaching, lab, library, community training or examination fee charged by a teaching institution during the entire study period of medical education, and said term also includes other fees charged by the teaching institution with the approval of the Commission.

(r) "Teaching Institution" means a medical college or teaching institution established pursuant to prevailing law that provides medical education, and said term also includes the permission for an extended program granted to operate a teaching institution.

(s) "Committee" means the Executive Committee pursuant to Section 8.

(t) "Affiliation" means the formal academic relationship granted by a university or by the Technical Education and Vocational Training Council for a teaching institution to follow the curriculum, admission, faculty structure, examination method and confer degrees for conducting its educational program.

(u) "Public Teaching Institution" means a government, community or other teaching institution established using government, public trust or public property.