CHENNAI: The Selection Committee under the Directorate of Medical Education and Research has issued an addendum to the provisional rank list of eligible candidates for Super Speciality (DM/MCh) courses for the 2025-2026 session. The four-page PDF, posted on tnmedicalselection.net on 25 September 2026, adds candidates in three NEET-SS question paper groups and lists each one's rank, state application number and All India Quota rank.
Who the addendum adds
The addendum adds 62 candidates. In the Medical Group it continues the provisional rank list from rank 37 to rank 66, adding 30 names. In the Surgical Group it runs from rank 38 to rank 64, adding 27. The Medical Oncology Group gets five more names, at ranks 11 to 15. Doctors who appear only in this addendum, and not in the earlier provisional list, are now part of the eligible pool for Tamil Nadu's Super Speciality counselling for in-service candidates.
The additions follow the cut in the NEET-SS 2025 qualifying percentile for the stray round. In a notice dated 23 September, the Selection Committee cited an NBEMS notice of 22 September that lowered the qualifying percentile to the 30th percentile for all specialities. The Committee took fresh online applications from 11:30 AM on 23 September to 11:59 PM on 24 September, and said candidates who had applied under an earlier percentile need not apply again.
The stray round that follows
The Selection Committee's tentative stray round schedule for Super Speciality courses in Tamil Nadu government medical colleges set registration and payment from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM on 26 September, and choice filling and locking from 4:00 PM on 26 September to 12 noon on 27 September. The result was due on 27 September. Allotment orders can be downloaded until 3:00 PM on 28 September, and reporting closes at 5:00 PM that day. The round is open to all eligible candidates on the merit list.
On 26 September the Committee also posted a virtual vacancy list with six seats: D.M. Cardiology at Chengalpattu and Tirunelveli medical colleges, D.M. Endocrinology and D.M. Nephrology at Madurai Medical College, and M.Ch. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and M.Ch. Surgical Oncology at Chengalpattu Medical College. Virtual vacancies are seats held by earlier-round candidates that become available only if those candidates are upgraded and vacate them. The schedule warns that actual seats may differ from those displayed for this reason.
Rules that apply
The stray round schedule says the counselling is only for in-service candidates of Tamil Nadu, under a Supreme Court order of 2 December 2022 in W.P. (C) No. 53/2022. Selection is on NEET-SS rank, and there is no reservation in Super Speciality courses. Fresh candidates who did not register in Rounds 1 or 2 pay a non-refundable Rs 1,000 processing fee. Candidates holding a Round 1 or Round 2 seat must vacate it if they get a stray round seat.
Allotted candidates pay the tuition fee before downloading the allotment order and must join by the stated time. An in-service candidate who discontinues after counselling ends must pay a discontinuation fee of Rs 20,00,000 by demand draft and will not be relieved, or get back original certificates, until it is paid. Candidates selected for admission also give a self-declaration accepting forfeiture of the seat if suppression of facts is found later.
An AIQ rank on the addendum does not by itself mean a seat. Allotment depends on the stray round choices, the vacancy position and the in-service eligibility rules set out by the Selection Committee.
The complete text is available in the Selection Committee addendum to the provisional rank list.
