Central Institutes of National Importance such as AIIMS and JIPMER require mandatory 3 year Senior Residency post MD to be eligible for the post of Assistant Professor. And this is considered as valid teaching experience.
However, state institutes and private medical colleges have a requirement of 1 year senior residency following which they are eligible to become Assistant Professor.
As per NMC guidelines, for further promotion to the post of Associate Professor, 4 years of teaching experience as Assistant Professor is required along with other requirements.
Hence doctors who have done their Senior Residency in central institutes and want to switch to state or other private medical colleges, lag promotion by two extra years due to this difference in requirement of senior residency period.
The senior residency is considered as teaching experience but not under the title of Assistant professor.
Is senior residency beyond 1 year in central institutes considered equivalent to Assistant professor in other Non -INI medical colleges under NMC or otherwise, when people transition from work at a central institute to other Medical colleges.