The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) is a Statutory body established under the provisions of the Gujarat Medical Council Act, 1967 (Gujarat ACT NO. 10 OF 1968). The GMC consists of the following members, (1) Six members elected by the Registered Practitioners, (2) Five members are nominated by the Government of Gujarat and (3) One member from each University established by law in the State which has a medical faculty. The President and the Vice-President of the GMC are elected by the Members of the Council from amongst themselves, as per the provisions of the Gujarat Medical Council Act, 1967. The Executive Committee consists of President as ex-officio member and Six other members of the Council who shall be elected, in the prescribed manner.

The Gujarat Medical Council has registered 50000 plus doctors as on 31-03-2013.

Constitution

The Council consist of the following members namely:-

(a)   five members to be nominated by the State Government, out of whom not more than one may be a person who is not a practitioner :

(b)   one member from each university established by law in the State which has a medical faculty, elected by members of the medical faculty of the University from amongst members thereof who are practitioner : and

(c)   six members to be elected by registered practitioners from amongst themselves.

Objective

The functions of the Gujarat Medical Council include maintenance of Register, and to provide for the registration of Medical practitioners, containing the names, address of medical practitioner who possess any of the recognized medical qualifications. to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove him from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary or expedient.

It gives me immense pleasure to communicate with you through the newly created dynamic web site of Gujarat Medical Council.

We have tried to make the website user friendly. Apart from its routine features of GMC Act, Rules, various forms, information regarding council members etc, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that procedure for both temporary or permanent registration can now be made online too. This will save the time and resources of the newly enrolling doctors. The registration can now be obtained within a shorter duration.

Another new feature is regarding Continuing Medical Education programme. Gujarat Medical Coucil has started giving accreditation to CME programmes since Jan-2012. Henceforth the Indian Medical Association, speciality associations and others can apply online for accreditation. The procedure for the same has also been made user friendly.

You can now communicate with the council via web. Good standing certificate and other useful services can now be availed online. We are also trying to communicate with other state councils to make the transfer of registration from one state to other easier.

I give Special thanks to my council members especially
Dr. Chetan Patel,
Dr. Bhavin Kothari,
Dr. Abhay Khandekar,
Dr. Mehul Shah,
Dr. Anil J Nayak
for their untiring efforts to make these successfully

Your valuable suggestions are welcome.

With warm regards

Dr. Nitin Vora
M.D, DV&D, M.Phill, LLB(special), DPM, FICA(USA), Diploma in Journalism.
President, Gujarat Medical Council