Faculty Requirements for a 250-Seat Medical College (UG-MSR 2023)
Department-wise NMC faculty requirements for a medical college with 250 MBBS seats, per UG-MSR 2023 Schedule II...
Department-wise Faculty Requirement Table
As per Schedule II – Staff Requirements of the National Medical Commission's Guidelines under UG-MSR 2023 (Under Graduate Medical Education Board, Notification dated 16 August 2023), a medical college with an annual intake of 250 MBBS seats must appoint the following department-wise teaching faculty, across the ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Tutor/Demonstrator, and Senior Resident:
Total Sanctioned Teaching Faculty for 250 MBBS Seats
Summing across all 20 departments, a medical college with 250 MBBS seats must sanction the following total number of teaching posts:
Key Rules Governing These Faculty Requirements
All teaching staff must be full-time; faculty are not permitted to engage in private practice during college functioning hours.
Each department must be headed by a Professor. As an exception, Dermatology, Psychiatry, and Dentistry may be headed by an Associate Professor or an Assistant Professor with more than 5 years of teaching experience, for a maximum period of 5 years, until a full-time Professor is appointed.
In Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, up to 30% of posts may be filled by non-medical teachers where medical teachers are not available, subject to prescribed qualifications.
Junior cadre posts (e.g. Assistant Professor) can be filled by more senior cadre faculty (Associate Professor or Professor); similarly Associate Professor posts can be filled by a Professor — as long as the total number of required persons is met.
Senior Resident Doctors (SRs) must be postgraduates of the corresponding specialty/department. Tutors/Demonstrators must be MBBS postgraduates (or PhD holders in the relevant pre/para-clinical subject).
Faculty with super-specialty qualifications appointed in a broad-specialty department count towards that broad specialty's UG faculty complement; faculty appointed specifically in a super-specialty department do not count towards the broad-specialty requirement.
In addition to the sanctioned teaching posts above, colleges must separately provide Junior Residents/Medical Officers and non-teaching staff proportionate to patient/clinical workload.
Why These Numbers Matter for Your College
These department-wise figures aren't just a compliance checkbox — they're the baseline NMC's Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) checks against during inspections and annual renewals for a 250-seat college. Falling short in even one department can affect a college's rating and, in turn, its permitted intake for the following year. If your institution is planning to scale up from a lower seat count, it's worth mapping your current faculty strength against the 250-seat table above well before the assessment cycle, since recruitment and onboarding for senior positions like Professor and Associate Professor typically takes longer than junior appointments.
For doctors evaluating academic openings, these tables are also a useful reference point — they show you roughly how many sanctioned posts exist at each level within a department, which can help you gauge how competitive a particular opening might be relative to the total faculty strength at that seat count.
Related Faculty Requirement Guides
Comparing numbers across different seat strengths can help you plan staffing for an expansion or a new application. See also:
For current openings, see our faculty vacancy listings across medical colleges.
Frequently asked questions
Can these faculty posts be filled by contractual or ad-hoc appointments?
NMC's framework is built around full-time, regularly appointed faculty rather than contractual staffing for the sanctioned posts above. While colleges may use ad-hoc arrangements to bridge short-term vacancies, MARB's assessment during renewal and inspection cycles is against the full-time sanctioned strength — not against how many posts are technically "filled" on paper through temporary means.
Does NMC allow flexibility in how these posts are distributed across departments?
The department-wise minimums in the table above are exactly that — minimums per department, not a total pool a college can redistribute freely. A college can't, for instance, run General Medicine short by two Assistant Professors while over-staffing a smaller department to compensate; each department is assessed against its own prescribed numbers.
How often does NMC revise these faculty requirement numbers?
These figures come from Schedule II of the Guidelines under UG-MSR 2023, notified 16 August 2023. NMC has amended related UG-MSR provisions since then — including removing the earlier 150-seat expansion cap and the population-based seat ratio in April 2026 — so it's worth treating the requirement table as current as of the source notification date referenced at the end of this article, and re-checking directly with NMC before finalising a hiring or expansion plan.
What happens if a college is short-staffed against this table at the time of a MARB inspection?
Shortfalls identified during MARB assessment or renewal typically translate into compliance deficiencies that can affect a college's rating and, in some cases, its permitted intake for the following academic year — the same mechanism referenced under "Why These Numbers Matter for Your College" above. Colleges are generally given an opportunity to respond to deficiency observations before a final rating decision, but the safer approach is closing gaps proactively rather than during an active assessment cycle.
Do Senior Resident and Tutor/Demonstrator posts count toward the "teaching faculty" total?
No — the Total Teaching Faculty figure in the summary table above specifically adds Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor posts. Senior Residents and Tutors/Demonstrators are tracked as separate cadres with their own sanctioned numbers, since they serve different roles (clinical/service support and practical instruction, respectively) rather than the core teaching designation ladder.
Source: National Medical Commission (Under Graduate Medical Education Board), "Guidelines under UG-MSR 2023," Notification No. U.11022/3/2023-UGMEB dated 16 August 2023 — Schedule II: Staff Requirements, Faculty Requirement for MBBS Admissions table.
This article is for general informational purposes based on our reading of the notified regulations and does not constitute legal advice. Requirements can be amended by NMC from time to time — please verify current rules directly with the National Medical Commission before making decisions.