Combined Medical Service Exam

Eligibility Criteria

• Nationality :
  

  For applying UPSC combined medical service exam a candidate should be either a citizen of India or a citizen of  Nepal or a Bhutan. A Tibetan refugee can also apply for exam but a condition is that they should came over to India before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of settling in India permanently. PIO that is person of Indian origin who had migrated from the Vietnam, Ethiopia, Zaire, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya with the intention of settling in India

• Age Group :
  

  Maximum age of candidate for attending the examination is 32 years but for Junior Time Scale Posts in Central Health Service the maximum age limit is 35 years. The relaxation in age limit is as follows.

  • • Age is relaxable upto 5years if candidate belongs to SC (Scheduled Caste) or (Scheduled Tribe) category. 
    • Age is relaxable upto 3years if candidate belongs to OBC (Other Backward Classes).
    • Age is relaxable upto 3 years in case if Defence service
    • Age is relaxable upto 5years if candidate belongs to Ex-serviceman who have served minimum 5 years in Military service.
    • Age is relaxable upto 10years if candidate belongs to a PwBD (Person with Benchmark Disabilities). The PwBD categories is as below
    1. Low vision and blindness.
    2. Hard and Deaf of hearing.
    3. Locomotor disability which includes muscular dystrophy, dwarfism, cerebral palsy, leprosy cured and acid attack victims.
    4. Mental illness, autism, specific learning disability and intellectual disability.

       Note: The PwBD candidate will be considered for eligible for appointment after the Government or appointing authority finds a candidate satisfy for concerned service.

• Education Qualification :

  A candidate must have passed the written and practical parts of the final year of M.B.B.S Examination. The candidate who have appeared or yet to appear the final year exam of M.B.B.S may also apply but such candidate have to produce the proof of having pass the M.B.B.S examination after qualifying CMS exam. A candidate who has not completed compulsory rotating internship can also apply but his/her appointment will be done after completing compulsory rotating internship.