Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC) has written to the Deans of all government and private medical colleges in the State to periodically furnish details of intake of students in a bid to curb malpractice in admitting students, mainly in postgraduate courses, beyond the sanctioned number of seats.
The action comes against the backdrop of a recent order by the Madras High Court directing the TNMC to allow registration of the degrees of four doctors who completed their postgraduation in a government hospital. The TNMC had earlier refused the registration as the hospital only had Letter of Permission (LOP) from the Medical Council of India (MCI) and not proper recognition.
“Many such cases are being reported of late.
At least in this case, they had the LOP. There are many colleges, mainly private colleges, which do not even have the LOP. If the allowed seats are 20, the colleges will take 24 students,” said K. Senthil, president, TNMC.
Stating that the TNMC was planning to go for appeal in recent case, Dr. Senthil added that the idea behind demanding details from the colleges was to prevent this kind of malpractice.
He said that some colleges cleverly admitted students from other States in these unrecognised seats and once they completed the degree they were asked to register with the medical council in their respective States instead of the TNMC. “Only when all of them come to register with us, we will know that the number has exceeded the recognised seats. Otherwise, it will go unnoticed,” he said.
He added that to overcome this, the MCI had recently sent a circular instructing that all students should mandatorily register at the States where they completed a course after which they were free to register in their respective States. The TNMC had also urged the students to visit the MCI website where details of number of recognised seats in every course in every college were provided.
MCI recently sent a circular instructing all students to register at the States where they complete a course
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