Why not govt med colleges in every district, asks HC
Chennai:
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`Only Deserving Should Join MBBS Course'
Should the Medical Council
of India fix minimum marks for students joining MBBS courses in foreign
institutions, asked the Madras high court, concerned that many low
scoring students were landing medical seats in foreign colleges.
Noting that only academi
cally brilliant students must join MBBS as people entrusted them with
their bodies, justice M Kirubakaran asked why the Centre was not asking
states to start a medical college in each district.
“It is not understandable
how moneyed persons who get comparatively low marks are allowed to get
admission in foreign medical colleges or universities and they are able
to get medical degrees which is also permitted by MCI which recognizes
the degrees.
Only meritorious students should be allowed to enter
medical colleges, as the lives of patients are with the prospective
doctors. Further, our country needs more doctors and hence urgent
measures have to be taken to establish more govern
ment medical colleges to so that medical education is not
commercialized,“ he said.
The judge was passing orders on a writ petition filed by Thamarai Selvam who did his MBBS at International University of Health and Sciences, St Christopher and Nevis in the West Indies. He completed the course in 2011 and cleared the MCI screening test in 2016.
He filed the petition after his application for provisional registration certificate was not considered by the Tamil Nadu medical council.
Pointing out that the institution was MCI-recognised and the candidate scored just 77% marks in Class XII, the judge raised the following questions: How many medical graduates from foreign medical colleges took screening tests in the past 10 years? Is MCI aware students with less marks are able to get admission in foreign institutions and get medical degrees?
Will allowing such students to get medical degrees not go against public interest? Whether or not minimum marks are prescribed by MCI for graduates of foreign medical universities? How many medical collegesinstitution are there in India? How many more medical collegesinstitutions are required to meet Indian requirements of doctors?
The judge the adjourned the hearing to April 10.
The judge was passing orders on a writ petition filed by Thamarai Selvam who did his MBBS at International University of Health and Sciences, St Christopher and Nevis in the West Indies. He completed the course in 2011 and cleared the MCI screening test in 2016.
He filed the petition after his application for provisional registration certificate was not considered by the Tamil Nadu medical council.
Pointing out that the institution was MCI-recognised and the candidate scored just 77% marks in Class XII, the judge raised the following questions: How many medical graduates from foreign medical colleges took screening tests in the past 10 years? Is MCI aware students with less marks are able to get admission in foreign institutions and get medical degrees?
Will allowing such students to get medical degrees not go against public interest? Whether or not minimum marks are prescribed by MCI for graduates of foreign medical universities? How many medical collegesinstitution are there in India? How many more medical collegesinstitutions are required to meet Indian requirements of doctors?
The judge the adjourned the hearing to April 10.
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