The Armed Forces Medical Services opened online registration on Monday, 9 November, for 120 medical officer posts under the short service commission, spread across the Army, Navy and Air Force medical services. The detailed notification was issued on 7 November and the window closes on 18 November. Ninety of the 120 posts are for male candidates and 30 for female candidates, and the fee is Rs 200 for every category.
The eligibility gate is narrower than the vacancy count suggests. A candidate must have cleared the final MBBS examination in no more than two attempts, must hold permanent registration with a state medical council or the National Medical Commission, and must have finished the compulsory internship by 30 September 2026. The condition that will decide most applications, though, is the entrance requirement: the candidate must have appeared for NEET PG 2025 or NEET PG 2026. A doctor who skipped the postgraduate entrance test cannot apply for these posts, whatever the clinical record.
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Who Can Apply, And The Two Gates That Cut The List
Age is calculated as on 31 December 2026. MBBS and postgraduate diploma holders must be below 30, which means a date of birth on or after 2 January 1997, while doctors holding an MD, MS or DNB must be below 35, meaning born on or after 2 January 1992. Postgraduate degree holders compete for the same posts, so a fresh graduate is not only up against other fresh graduates. The two-attempt cap and the internship cut-off remove two large groups: doctors who repeated a year of MBBS, and interns whose rotatory service ends in October or later.
The form is short, the document list is not. Candidates upload a photograph under 100 KB, the Class 10 certificate under 200 KB, the MBBS attempt certificate, the internship completion certificate, the NEET PG scorecard and Aadhaar, plus a postgraduate degree certificate where it applies. The Rs 200 fee has no concession for reserved or female applicants.
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How The Merit List Is Actually Built
There is no written examination. The NEET PG percentile is converted into marks out of 200, shortlisted candidates face an interview of 50 marks and must score at least 50 per cent to qualify, and the final merit list is the sum of the two. On those published weights, the entrance score carries 80 per cent of the total and the interview 20 per cent. An NCC certificate adds up to three marks, six per cent of the interview score, which can decide a place when candidates are separated by a mark. A Special Medical Board examination and document verification follow, and the merit list is drawn only after both.
The Rank, The Pay And The Type Of Commission
A selected candidate is commissioned as a Captain with basic pay of Rs 61,300 in Level 10B, military service pay of Rs 15,500 and other applicable allowances. The two fixed components alone come to Rs 76,800 a month before dearness allowance. This is a short service commission, not a permanent one. The Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Services is the cadre controlling authority, and its 1A section handles grants of both the short service and the permanent commission, so the two run through the same office as separate applications. Both are described on the Armed Forces Medical Services portal that hosts this notification.
Why 120 Posts Is The Wrong Number To Focus On
In our reading, the useful number here is not the 120 vacancies but the funnel in front of them, and the calendar behind it. AFMS numbers its intakes by board, and its own notification archive lists a 2026 Board 1 next to this Board 2, so a doctor who lets 18 November pass waits for the first board of 2027. For a graduate who did not convert a postgraduate seat this year, a short service commission is a paid clinical posting with officer rank, supervised speciality work and a service record, not a fallback. The awkward part is the metric: the same NEET PG rank that settled the counselling outcome also settles 80 per cent of this merit list.
What To Watch
Registration closes on 18 November. Interviews begin at Army Hospital (Research and Referral) in Delhi Cantonment from 2 December, and admit cards are issued at least a week before the allotted date, leaving a fortnight between the close of applications and the first board. Shortlisted candidates should keep the attestation form ready in five printed copies. The shortlist will show how far the NEET PG cutoff has travelled for 120 posts that also draw postgraduate degree holders into the same merit list.
