if a doctor get registered with MCI or any SMC, the doctor need not be registered again in another state where he is practising medicine.

• State medical councils insist that any doctor working in the state must get registered with them. Such insistence is illegal and lacks legal reasoning or force. As per the MCI Act, 1956, a doctor registered with any one state council gets his name automatically included in the Indian Medical Register as long as he possesses a recognised medical qualifications for such registration and he is thereby entitled to practice medicine anywhere in India.
• Hospitals in various states often lay down a condition that a doctor applying for a job must be registered with the state medical council concerned.  This is unjust and illegal. Doctors should fight against this practice by filing a writ petition in the High Court individually or collectively.
• Hospitals approved by the National Board of Examinations for DNB training often lay down a condition that the applicant doctor for joining DNB training course must be registered with the state medical council concerned.  This is unjust and illegal.

courtesy:Dr. M C Gupta (Former Professor and Dean)

MD (Medicine), LLM

Advocate (Delhi Bar Council no. 857/2001).