Chennai: Tamil Nadu has allotted Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship positions to foreign medical graduate (FMG) doctors across 13 non-teaching hospitals in the state, accommodating 370 interns who had been on the waiting list maintained by the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) headquarters in Chennai. The state has also set up an online portal to manage future allotment.The FMG interns — doctors who studied abroad and cleared the FMG examination — were stranded at the DME office awaiting placement. Of these, 23 were posted to govt teaching hospitals and 13 to district headquarters hospitals, with the remainder distributed across the newly designated non-teaching institutions.MIOT Hospital in Chennai, Meenakshi Mission Hospital in Madurai, Railway Hospital in Chennai, and Sri Rama Krishna Hospital in Sullapattu each take 40 interns. Other hospitals include K G Hospitals in Coimbatore, Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, and Railway Hospitals in Trichy and Madurai.The decision addressed a mounting backlog of qualified doctors unable to begin mandatory internship training, officials said.
