எம்பிபிஎஸ் படிப்புக்கான காலம் 54ல் இருந்து 50 மாதங்களாகக் குறைப்பு: தேர்வு முறையிலும் மாற்றம்?

By ENS | Published on : 11th November 2019 03:56 PM |

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விஜயவாடா: எம்பிபிஎஸ் படிப்புக்கான கால அளவு மற்றும் தேர்வு முறைகளை மாற்றியமைத்துள்ளது இந்திய மருத்துவக் கவுன்சில்.

இந்த மாற்றங்கள், நடப்புக் கல்வியாண்டில் மருத்துவக் கல்வியில் சேர்ந்தவர்களுக்குப் பொருந்தும் என்றும், கடந்த ஆண்டு மருத்துவப் படிப்பில் சேர்ந்தவர்களை இது எந்த வகையிலும் பாதிக்காது என்றும் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

எம்பிபிஎஸ் படிப்புக் காலம் என்பது இதுவரை 54 மாதங்களாக இருந்த நிலையில், இது இனி 50 மாதங்களாகக் குறைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதேப்போல தேர்வு முறைகளிலும் மாற்றங்கள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டுள்ளன. அதாவது, ஒவ்வொரு பாடமும் இனி இரண்டு தாள்களைக் கொண்டிருக்கும். அதோடு, தியரி, வாய்மொழியான தேர்வு, செய்முறைத் தேர்வு என ஒவ்வொரு தாளுக்கும் தேர்வுகள் நடைபெறும்.

இந்த தேர்வு மாற்றங்கள், கடந்த ஆண்டு எம்பிபிஎஸ் படிப்பில் சேர்ந்து பயிலும் மாணவர்களை பாதிக்காது. இது குறித்து புதிய அறிக்கை அனைத்து மருத்துவக் கல்லூரிகளுக்கும் அனுப்பி வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இதுவரை இருந்த மருத்துவப் படிப்பில், இரண்டாம் ஆண்டில் தடயவியல் பாடம் சேர்க்கப்படும். ஆனால் புதிய மாற்றத்தில் 3ம் ஆண்டில் சேர்க்கப்படும். எம்பிபிஎஸ் மாணவர்களுக்கு முதலாம் ஆண்டு என்பது 13 மாதங்கள், இரண்டாம் ஆண்டு என்பது 11 மாதங்களும், மூன்றாம் ஆண்டுப் படிப்பு என்பது இரண்டு பகுதியாகப் பிரிக்கப்பட்டு தலா 12 மாதங்கள், 14 மாதங்கள் என தொகுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

தற்போது வரை அனைத்துப் பாடங்களுக்கும் ஒரே ஒரு தேர்வு நடைபெறும். அந்த முறையில் எழுத்துத் தேர்வுக்கு 100 மதிப்பெண்கள், வாய்மொழித் தேர்வுக்கு 20 மதிப்பெண்கள், செய்முறைத் தேர்வுக்கு 40 மதிப்பெண்கள் மற்றும் இன்டர்நெல் அஸ்ஸெஸ்மென்ட் மதிப்பெண்களையும் கொண்டிருக்கும்.

புதிய முறையில், ஒவ்வொரு பாடத்துக்கும் இரண்டு தாள்கள் என்ற அடிப்படையில் இரண்டு தேர்வுகள் நடைபெறும். இவ்விரண்டு தேர்வுகளுக்கும் 200 மதிப்பெண்களும், செய்முறைத் தேர்வு, வாய்மொழித் தேர்வு, கிளினிகல் தேர்வு என அனைத்துக்கும் 100 மதிப்பெண்களும் அளிக்கப்படும்.

ஒரு மாணவர் எழுத்துத் தேர்வு மற்றும் செய்முறைத் தேர்வு என குறைந்தது 50 மதிப்பெண்களை எடுத்தால்தான் பல்கலைத் தேர்வை எழுத அனுமதிக்கப்படுவார்கள் என்று தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Over ₹350 cr. seized from educational group

I-T Department conducted searches on November 7, covering 32 premises

12/11/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNAI

The Income Tax Department said its preliminary estimate of the undisclosed income from searches conducted on the premises of a -based educational group is over ₹350 crore.

An official statement did not disclose the name of the group, however, sources told The Hindu, that the searches were conducted on Jeppiaar educational institutions.

Jewellery and cash

About ₹5 crore in cash and jewellery worth over ₹3 crore were seized in the action, it said.

According to an official statement, the searches were conducted on November 7 covering 32 premises of the group running educational institutions in and around Chennai for the past 30 years.

The institutions run by the group include a number of engineering colleges, polytechnic institutes, dental college, nursing colleges, hospitals and schools. The group has interests in other sectors such as fishing harbour, cement, milk, bottled water and iron and steel.

The Income Tax Department said there were reports of the group accepting fee/donations in cash, which were largely unaccounted for, and of the funds of the trust being diverted to other sister concerns.

Suppression of receipts

During the search proceedings, evidence of suppression of fee receipts have been found, it said.

In addition, the Department said one group entity has adopted the modus operandi of showing the actual fees received as advance fee collection in the liability side of the balance sheet and advancing the said amounts as payments to its sister concerns against certain expenses/purchases, which were found to be bogus/inflated.

The I-T Department noted that thus the money of the trusts is found to be diverted outside the trusts for the objects outside the scope of the trust. Evidence has been found — unexplained cash debits, unrecorded cash expenditure, suppression of sale receipts in fishing harbour, loan advanced in cash, non-disclosure of property, etc., it said.

The search proceedings have been temporarily concluded and investigations into the findings are in progress, Income Tax Department said.

Tamil to get 9,000 new words 

Staff Reporter 
 
CHENNAI, November 08, 2019 13:55 IST



Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture K. Pandiaraja at the inauguration of the list of 9,000 new Tamil words. Minister for School Education K. A. Sengottaiyan and Minister for Fisheries D. Jayakumar also participated | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj

State government issues order; new words coined by experts from various fields, says Minister K. Pandiarajan

The State government has issued a government order to include 9,000 new Tamil words in the language. Currently, Tamil has over 4.7 lakh unique words.

School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan released the list of 9,000 new Tamil words at a function held in Ethiraj College on Friday in the presence of Fisheries, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Minister D. Jayakumar and Tamil Official Language and Culture Minister K. Pandiarajan.

Speaking at the function, Minister K.Pandiarajan said the new Tamil words have been coined as a result of the hard work of experts from various fields for ten months. “The State government has ushered in a golden age for Tamil etymology. The government has constituted a committee of experts to coin new Tamil words. We have found 4.7 lakh unique Tamil words from old literary sources. This is three times more than the number of unique English words in the Oxford English Dictionary,” said Mr. Pandiarajan. He also stressed the need for the contribution of students in nurturing the etymological aspects of Tamil.

Fisheries, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Minister D. Jayakumar said the State government was taking measures to promote the growth and development of the Tamil language. “The fil-makers have to play a role in promoting Tamil using their creativity. We remember many old feature films for their contribution to Tamil society, language and culture,” said Mr. Jayakumar.

The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University Vice Chancellor Sudha Seshayyan said the youth should learn new words from the Tamil dictionary regularly to show their respect for the great Tamil scholar Veeramamunivar who developed the Tamil dictionary. “Veeramamunivar came to Tamil Nadu in 1710. He developed the Tamil-Tamil dictionary. In an era of technological innovation, it is our duty to coin new words for Tamil. Students should use social media to coin new words that have their roots in the Tamil language,” said Ms.Seshayyan.

Poet Jayabaskaran said new Tamil words are crucial for administrative reforms and judicial reforms in the State. “The new words in Tamil will strengthen our pursuit of excellence in trade, law, administration, technology and medicine,” he said.

MCI

National level Powerlifting champ joins MBBS, gets ragged at Ernakulam Medical College  Campus

Published on November 9, 2019 | Last Updated on November 9, 2019

Thiruvananthapuram: In a brutal ragging incident surfaced recently from Government Medical College Ernakulam (GMC Ernakulam), a National Level Powerlifting Champion, who joined MBBS this year at the institute; sustained grievous injury on right shoulder after he was allegedly assaulted by a group of 12 senior medicos.

The fresher MBBS student’s right shoulder bone got dislocated and he was admitted in the medical college hospital for treatment.

In his complaint to the medical college Principal, the MBBS student alleged that 12 senior medical students including house surgeons at the GMC ragged him and displaced his shoulder bone. The incident allegedly took place on November 6 midnight during the arts festival at the medical college campus.

With the injury; the MBBS student, who is supposed to participate in National Powerlifting competition, in January 2020; may not be able to do so. The doctor has also advised the medico one month rest.

When asked if any action is being taken by the institute authorities on this case, Vice-Principal Dr P Anil Kumar informed Onmanorama that the student’s complaint would be forwarded to the police and a three-member council at the medical college, comprising Heads of Departments (HoDs), would be constituted to probe the ragging incident.

Medical Council of India’s updated definition includes the following to define ragging as, “Any act of physical or mental abuse (including bullying and exclusion) targeted at another student (fresher or otherwise) on the ground of colour, race, religion, caste, ethnicity, gender (including transgender), sexual orientation, appearance, nationality, regional origins, linguistic identity, place of birth, place of residence or economic background.”

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences (UPUMS) had suspended seven students of the 2018 MBBS batch for three months for ragging the junior students and making them tonsure their heads. A fine of Rs 25,000 was also slapped on each of them. Besides, a penalty of Rs 5,000 was imposed on all 150 students of the 2018 batch.

Othet states

WB Medical Council suspends 3 Apollo Gleneagles Hospital doctors on medical negligence

Published on November 9, 2019 | Last Updated on November 9, 2019 State : West Bengal

Bengal: Holding negligence in the treatment provided to a four month old baby on the part of three Apollo Gleneagles Hospital doctors, the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has now suspended three doctors associated with the case for a period of three months.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the WBCERC has also awarded a compensation of Rs 30 lakh to the baby’s family, who died on April 19.

The case goes back to April 2017 when a four month old baby who was admitted to the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital for a colonoscopy died primarily because of an aesthetic overdose.

Alleging Medical Negligence on part of the hospital and its doctors, the parents approached the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) and the WBMC. The WBCERC held the doctors as well as the hospital guilty of negligence.

“Apollo Gleneagles Hospital is guilty of mismanagement and misrepresentation of facts, deficiency in services, negligent. It is also having come to the conclusion that three doctors seemed to be negligent in carrying out the treatment as expected,” the Commission said in its order.

Regarding the conduct of the doctors, the commission observed

It may be so that doctors have a set of activities in carrying out a procedure. However, in this particular case it is clear that none of the two important doctors in the act i-.e., Dr. Goenka and Dr. Mahawar ever saw the patient physically to assess whether she is capable of undergoing such a procedure. Moreover, none of his team doctors evaluated critical parameters of the baby. The Commission is surprised to note that if a doctor does not evaluate a patient properly before carrying out a procedure it clearly falls under the domain of negligence. We can safely conclude that neither Dr. Goenka nor Dr. Mahawar were aware of the baby’s condition prior to the procedure and they went ahead mechanically in carrying out the colonoscopy. Even though on records it is satisfying that the colonoscopy itself was uneventful as also revealed from the x-rays, the same could not be said regarding condition of baby to undergo anaesthesia and recover back. In view of the foregoing discussions it is amply clear that the hospital did not manage the baby in an appropriate manner, there was lack of communication between the duty doctors, consultant doctors and nurses, the baby was kept for over three days in the hospital for no apparent medical reason and therefore the hospital, the three attending doctors, viz., Dr. V R Srivastava, Dr. Mahesh Kumar Goenka and Dr. Sanjay Mahawar seem to be negligent in treatment and the hospital is additionally guilty of deficiency in services which it is required to professionally provide for, lack of coordination, mismanagement, misrepresentation of facts and making the patient to over stay.

Since the commission can only try hospitals, the medical negligence part was being probed by WBMC, with PTI now reporting that the state medical council has called for the suspension of the doctors .

As per the order of the WBMC, the names of the three doctors would be removed from the council’s website and they would not be allowed to work at any medical facility in the state, a senior official said. The council in September conducted the final hearing in the death case.

A WBMC source informed the news agency that the verdict will be out soon.

MCI

MBBS, PG Medical fee to get regularized in private medical colleges; MOHFW, MCI BOG on the Job

Last Updated on November 7, 2019

New Delhi: Bringing a sense of relief to medical aspirants across the country, MBBS, as well as PG Medical fee at various private medical colleges and deemed universities will be brought under control from the next academic session

In the light of the fact that the formation of National Medical Commission (NMC) to replace the existing Medical Council of India (MCI) may take some more time, the Union Health Ministry has asked the Board of Governors (BoG) to prepare draft guidelines for the fee structure in private medical colleges and deemed universities from the next academic session.

The same will form the base document, once the National Medical Commission (NMC) replaces the MCI

In its letter to the BoG, the Health Ministry said it has initiated the process of formation of the National Medical Commission, Medical Advisory Council and the four autonomous Boards and it is likely to take some time.

“The Commission on its constitution will also frame guidelines for determination of fee which may be enforced from the academic session 2021-22.

“It has been desired that the BoG may prepare draft guidelines for determination of fees and all other charges of 50 per cent of private medical colleges and deemed universities as envisaged under the NMC Act 2019 so that the Commission on its constitution may utilise the same and so that it can be enforced from the next academic session–2020-21 — onwards for both UG and PG medical admissions,” the letter read.

Meanwhile, the ministry has also asked private medical and dental colleges across the country to charge fee for only the first year from students at the time of admission.

The BoG, which is vested with the powers of the MCI, has now initiated consultations with states and sought their suggestions for framing draft guidelines for the fee structure.

The Board of Governors has been requested to prepare draft guidelines for fee regulation so that it can be used as a base document by NMC, a senior Health Ministry official said.

Once the NMC comes into being, the Medical Council of India will automatically get abolished. The president dissolved the Medical Council of India (MCI) in 2018 and a BoG was appointed to perform its functions.

Medical Dialogues has repeatedly reported about the rising fee at private medical colleges.

While earlier capitation fee was an issue, with the advent of NEET, the official MBBS fee at most private medical colleges skyrocketed, with the entire course fee even crossing Rs 1 crore in many cases. This is bound to create some financially burdened doctors, the government has repeatedly worried

Read Also: MCI BOG preparing guidelines for MBBS, PG Medical fee regulation: Health Ministry

Both the Roy Choudhury Committee and the Parliamentary Standing Committee expressed concerns regarding the high cost of medical education for students and gave recommendations in favour of capping the fees.

However, given the fact that IMC Act, 1956 has no provision for the regulation of fees the erstwhile MCI refused to interfere with the MBBS fee structures at private medical colleges citing lack of mandate, which further became a bone of contention between the medical council and the government

With the takeover of the Medical Council of India by the Board of Governors, the government directed the BOG to come up with solutions, to tackle this growing problem.

The document so prepared by the BOG will be base for future policies as well

RTI

RTI Reply: NEET Exam brought Rs 192 crore revenue to government, no account of how it was spent

Published on November 8, 2019 |

New Delhi: Exam fee for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the gateway to MBBS,BDS as well as AYUSH admissions in the country, earned the Ministry, through its exam conducting body, upwards of Rs 192 crores this year, a RTI reply has recently revealed.

However, the response which was given to the RTI query by Neemuch-based activist Chandrashekhar Gaud, was not able to give a reply on how this money was spent by the government.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that from this year (2019) government had replaced CBSE and constituted a new body National Testing Agency (NTA) for the purpose of conducting various entrance examinations for admissions to professionals courses in the country. Besides conducting NEET for medical entrances, NTA, which is a not-for-profit organisation and fall under Human Resources Development ministry also conducts various other exams including UGC-NET,JEE for engineering entrances and many more.

For Conducting NEET 2019,which was held on May 5 this year , the online application fees was fixed and charged by NTA at Rs 1400 for general and OBC category candidates and Rs 750 for SC/ST candidates. Around 15,19,375 candidates applied for the exam of which 14,10,755 candidates appeared

These calculations revealed that the Central government through NTA earned more than Rs 192 crore from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) fees in 2019, as per the information received under the RTI.

Replying to a RTI query from Neemuch-based activist Chandrashekhar Gaud, the National Testing Agency which conducts the NEET exam and comes under the Human Resources Development ministry, said it collected Rs 192,43,22,162 as entrance fees from the 15,19,375 candidates, who enrolled themselves for the exam in 2019.

Speaking to news agency IANS, The RTI activist said that the National Testing Agency must clarify how much it spent on the conduct of the exam in public interest.

Though the National Testing Agency, which conducts the exam claims to be a not-for-profit organisation that makes arrangements for the exams from the funds collected through fees, it is yet to give details of how it spends the Rs 192 crore it collected this year.

This is not the first time the Centre earned such a whopping amount from the candidates. The Medical Council Committee (MCC) in 2018 earned more than Rs 18 crore through the online counselling process while it spent only Rs 2.76 crore on the its conduct, the RTI revealed.

This means that in 2018, the MCC earned a profit of Rs 15.56 crore. What happened to this amount is not known.

The testing agency, when asked by the news agency, refused to give details about the fees determination process citing various rules of RTI.