The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) New Delhi conducts Combined Medical Services Examination every year to recruit medicos into a variety of central Government organisations and services such as the Indian Railways, Indian Ordnance Factories Health Services, Central Health Services, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and so on.
The combined medical services examination is conducted in the month of January in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Dept. of Health) in the Gazette of India in August of every year.
The Examination is held for the recruitment to the following posts:1. Assistant Divisional Medical Officer in the Railways
2. Assistant Divisional in Indian Ordnance Factories Health Service
3. Junior Scale Posts in Central Health Services
4. Medical Officers in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi
5. General Duty Medical Officers in NDMC.
Eligibility Criteria: Eligibility Criteria for appearing in Combined Medical Services (CMS) Exam are as follows:
Age limits: Below 32 years as on 1st January of the year of Examination.
The upper Age-limit is relaxable for SC/ST/OBC and some other categories, as notified by Govt. from time to time.
Educational Qualification: A pass in the written and practical parts of the final M.B.B.S. Examination.
Candidates appearing in the final M,B.B.S. Examination are also eligible to apply but such candidates who qualify the written part of the examination will be required to submit proof of passing the written and practical parts of final MBBS Examination alongwith their detailed application form to be filled up at that stage.
A candidate who has not completed compulsory rotating internship is also eligible for admission to the examination but on qualifying the written examination he will be appointed only after he has completed the compulsory rotating internship.
NationalityA candidate must be either:
(a) a Citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India. or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him by the Government of India.