Doctors should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters .

MCI Gazette notifies prescription clause in ethics regulation

MCI gazette notification: “Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs,”

The notification was issued to amend the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette, and Ethics) Regulation 2002. Approved for publication on September 21, this is an upgrade of the previous notification that says doctors should write generic names of the drugs they prescribe.

MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 21st September, 2016

No.MCI-211(2)/2016(Ethics)/131118 .–

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), the Medical Council of India with the previous sanction of the Central Government, hereby makes the following Regulations to amend the “Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002: - Short Title and Commencement:-

(i) These Regulations may be called the “Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) (Amendment) Regulations, 2016 – Part – I”.

(ii) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Office Gazette.

2. In the “Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002”, the following additions/modifications/deletions/substitutions, shall be, as indicated therein:-

3. In Chapter 1-B-Duties and responsibilities of the Physician in general, Clause –

1.5 under the heading – Use of Generic names of drugs, the following shall be substituted : -

 “Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs”

Dr REENA NAYYAR, Secy. I/c

[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./253(100)]