TN gets 101 more PG medical seats for 2018
Total 1,585 Seats In Kitty, Applications From March
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The state will add 101postgraduate medical seats across14 government medical colleges during the 2018 admission season, taking the total PGseatsto1,585.
The Medical Council of India has approved additional seatsfor Chennai-basedhospitals Kilpauk Medical College (5 seats in MD pathology) and Stanley Medical College (3 seatsin MDforensic medicine).
Colleges in south TN — Thoothukudi Medical College
(32), Tirunelveli Medical College (4) and Theni Medical College (11) — will get 47 seats in surgical and medical streams. In the west, Coimbatore Medical College will get 2 seats, Salem 3 and Dharmapuri 6. While Trichy will add 19 seats, Chengalpet gets16.
Until now, the state had 1,088 PG medical degree seats and 396 diploma seats across14 state-run colleges. In 2017, the state added 300 PG seats. The state selection committee will surrender 50% of seats to directorate general of health services for admission through all-India quota and students will be admitted to the remaining seats based on NEET scores. Applications will be available from March, selection committeesecretary Dr G Selvarajan said.
A six-member committee under Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation chairman P Umanathisworking on a report of primary health centres and government hospitals in remote areas. Doctors working in these areas can be given additional marks over their NEET scores , as incentives.
While the committee is preparing the report, the state is also waiting for the Centre tocome outwith amendments in the Post-Graduate Medical Act, health secretary J Radhakrishnan said. “The committee is working out the difficult and remote areas in a scientific manner basedon terrain, reach and the kind of work,” hesaid.
In 2017, the postgraduate admission process was muddled in a legal battle at the Madras high court. Admissions had to be cancelled and the process was stalled twice. The state government had given 50% of the seats for the all-India quota and the reservedhalf of the remaining seats to doctors working with the government.
Government doctors working in difficult, hilly or remote regions of the state were given additional three marksfor every year of their service, while those working in primary health centres (PHCs) got an additional two marks for every year of service. However, the court struck it down saying that there can be no reservation for government staff and asked the government to draw up a list of difficult and remote areas as specified by the Medical Council of India Act.
ADMISSION TIME: The state is preparing a report of PHCs and govt hospitals in remote areas as per the MCI guidelines
Total 1,585 Seats In Kitty, Applications From March
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The state will add 101postgraduate medical seats across14 government medical colleges during the 2018 admission season, taking the total PGseatsto1,585.
The Medical Council of India has approved additional seatsfor Chennai-basedhospitals Kilpauk Medical College (5 seats in MD pathology) and Stanley Medical College (3 seatsin MDforensic medicine).
Colleges in south TN — Thoothukudi Medical College
(32), Tirunelveli Medical College (4) and Theni Medical College (11) — will get 47 seats in surgical and medical streams. In the west, Coimbatore Medical College will get 2 seats, Salem 3 and Dharmapuri 6. While Trichy will add 19 seats, Chengalpet gets16.
Until now, the state had 1,088 PG medical degree seats and 396 diploma seats across14 state-run colleges. In 2017, the state added 300 PG seats. The state selection committee will surrender 50% of seats to directorate general of health services for admission through all-India quota and students will be admitted to the remaining seats based on NEET scores. Applications will be available from March, selection committeesecretary Dr G Selvarajan said.
A six-member committee under Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation chairman P Umanathisworking on a report of primary health centres and government hospitals in remote areas. Doctors working in these areas can be given additional marks over their NEET scores , as incentives.
While the committee is preparing the report, the state is also waiting for the Centre tocome outwith amendments in the Post-Graduate Medical Act, health secretary J Radhakrishnan said. “The committee is working out the difficult and remote areas in a scientific manner basedon terrain, reach and the kind of work,” hesaid.
In 2017, the postgraduate admission process was muddled in a legal battle at the Madras high court. Admissions had to be cancelled and the process was stalled twice. The state government had given 50% of the seats for the all-India quota and the reservedhalf of the remaining seats to doctors working with the government.
Government doctors working in difficult, hilly or remote regions of the state were given additional three marksfor every year of their service, while those working in primary health centres (PHCs) got an additional two marks for every year of service. However, the court struck it down saying that there can be no reservation for government staff and asked the government to draw up a list of difficult and remote areas as specified by the Medical Council of India Act.
ADMISSION TIME: The state is preparing a report of PHCs and govt hospitals in remote areas as per the MCI guidelines
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