COMED-K PGET 2010 - POST GRADUATE ENTRANCE TEST
COMEDK PGET 2010 in respect of Postgraduate Medical & Dental courses will be conducted on Sunday the 31st January 2010 in Bangalore City only.
Admission to Postgraduate Courses in Private, Medical & Dental Colleges of Karnataka for the Academic Year 2010 – 2011 through COMEDK Postgraduate Entrance Test and Centralised Counselling. (COMEDK PGET-2010)
Karnataka Private Medical and Dental Colleges Association and Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association have set up “COMDEK” to organise a ‘Post Graduate Entrance Test’, that would facilitate selection of candidates on merit for admissions to postgraduate courses offered by Medical and Dental Colleges run by its member. COMEDK PGET 2010 entrance test & publication of test score and rank list will be followed by central counseling (Single window system). The details of the arrangement made will be publicized in due course on our website, www.comedk.org Candidates are advised to visit the Comedk website regularly for all updates
COMEDK PGET 2010 Important Dates:
Start date for issue of online application: 01.12.2009
Last date for receipt of completed application forms: 31.12.2009
Last date for dispatch of admission ticket: 08.01.2010
COMEDK PGET-2010 test in Bangalore city only: 31.01.2010
Publishing of answer keys: 31.01.2010
Last date for receiving objections pertaining to answer keys: 06.02.2010
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants should have successfully passed all year of their MBBS/BDS from an institution recognized by the MCI/DCI and must have completed/completing their internship by 30th April 2010
Applications to be filled online on our website www.comedk.org after obtaining a DD for Rs. 1500/- in favour of ‘COMEDK’, payable at Bangalore (non refundable fee) and posted to the below given COMEDK address along with the DD and the documents asked for on or before 31.12.2009
Note: Neither the application forms or filled in applications will be sold or received in COMEDK office or any member institutions
MCI / DCI Norms:
Every student, selected for admission to the Post Graduate medical / dental course in any of the medical / dental institutions in the country, shall possess recognized M.B.B.S. / B.D.S. degree or equivalent qualification and should have obtained permanent registration with the Medical Council of India / Dental Council of India, or any of the State Medical / Dental Council or should obtain the same with in one month from the date of admission, failing which the admission of the candidate shall be cancelled.
Provided that in the case of a foreign national, the Medical Council of India / Dental Council of India may, on payment of the prescribed fee for the registration, grant temporary registration for the duration of the Post Graduate training restricted to the college / institution to which the applicant is admitted for the time being exclusively for Post Graduate studies; Provided further, that temporary registration to such foreign national shall be subjected to the condition that such person is duly registered as medical practitioner in his own country from which the applicant has obtained his / her basic medical / dental qualification and that his / her degree is recognized by the corresponding Council or concerned authority.
As per the Post Graduate Regulation 2000 of Medical Council of India, the minimum percentage of marks in the entrance test (COMEDK PGET-2010) for eligibility for admission to Post Graduate Courses shall be __ for General Category candidates and __ for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBC as declared by Government of Karnataka from time to time).
As specified by the Dental Council of India, the minimum percentage of marks in the entrance test (COMEDK PGET-2010) for admission to Post Graduate Dental courses shall be 50% for all the candidates (Reference: DCI. Letter No. DE 14-2004/1135 dated 05 May 2004).
Rank list / Rank Card will be prepared only for those students who become eligible for admission to Post Graduate Courses as per the Medical Council of India or Dental Council of India Regulations.
About COMEDK PGET 2010 Test
The Entrance Test COMEDK PGET-2010 is mandatory for all candidates seeking admissions to Member Institutions of COMEDK. A merit / rank list is generated based on the candidate's scores in COMEDK entrance test.
As part of our test process, to ensure fairness to the merited students and to eliminate fraudulent attempts, it is planned to use Biometrics (Fingerprinting) at various stages of the process and this would be done at the discretion of COMEDK