Salient features of National Medical Commission Bill, 2016 are:

• The National Medical Commission draft Bill is a much needed and long overdue endeavor by the NITI Aayog and the Government of India aiming to reform the current Medical Council of India.
• The Bill is comprehensive and well-drafted aiming to regulate the medical profession and improve the quality of medical administration. The Bill aims to create four verticals to oversee undergraduate and post-graduate education, establish a medical assessment and rating Board, and also a Board for medical registration.
• The Bill is rightly providing for convergence and effective coordination. 
• The Bill has addressed the three challenges of rampant corruption, failure to establish and maintain standards of medical education, and ineffective regulation of the medical profession. 
• The proposed Bill rightly provides for an appeal to the Board of Medical Registration whose decision shall be binding on the State Medical Council. 
• The enormous importance of NMC’s role in regulating standards of medical education, professional ethics, and medical care in India, a regular framework for reporting and accountability should be institutionalized in the law itself.