Rank problem: State medicos to face quandary
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 27.03.2018
Chennai: When the New-Delhi based Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) allots seats for students for various post-graduate medical degree courses across the country, medicos in the state will be left in a quandary -- they will not be able to decide if they should take the seat because students here are yet to know their state ranks.
The deadline for submitting applications for the state quota of post graduate degrees and diplomas in medical courses ended on Monday. The selection committee officials received 9,848 applications. This year the state added157 additional seats taking the total number of seats to 1,641 (1,250 degree and 396 diploma) in state run medical colleges. The single window admission for state medical colleges, self-financing colleges and Raja Muthiah Medical College will be done after surrendering 50% of the seats to the DGHS for admission through all India quota.
“We will be categorising applicants according to eligibility for incentive in the next two days. But we can’t release the merit list as we are yet to receive the state rank list from the National Board of Examinations, which conducted these tests,” said state selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan. The board conducted the NEET-PG 2018 last year and the results were declared in January, but the state has not received the rank list.
Meanwhile, on Monday, at 5pm the directorate closed options for registration, exercising of choices and locking of choices for the All India quota. Many doctors have locked their choices and the allotment of first round will begin on Tuesday. Students will have to join the allotted colleges by April 3. “But most of our doctors are not aware of their status in the state. How will they be able to make an informed choice without this information?” asks Doctors Association of Social Equality general secretary Dr G R Ravindranth.
Although officials at the directorate of medical education said that they have written to the National Board of Examination, medical aspirants say that thestate has badly let them down. “My first choiceis radiology. I may not get the course in the first round in all India quota. I may be offered paediatrics but if I know my state rank, I will know whether to take or let go of what is offered. Although first round is not considered final, it will waste all our time and efforts,” said a student, on condition of anonymity.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 27.03.2018
Chennai: When the New-Delhi based Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) allots seats for students for various post-graduate medical degree courses across the country, medicos in the state will be left in a quandary -- they will not be able to decide if they should take the seat because students here are yet to know their state ranks.
The deadline for submitting applications for the state quota of post graduate degrees and diplomas in medical courses ended on Monday. The selection committee officials received 9,848 applications. This year the state added157 additional seats taking the total number of seats to 1,641 (1,250 degree and 396 diploma) in state run medical colleges. The single window admission for state medical colleges, self-financing colleges and Raja Muthiah Medical College will be done after surrendering 50% of the seats to the DGHS for admission through all India quota.
“We will be categorising applicants according to eligibility for incentive in the next two days. But we can’t release the merit list as we are yet to receive the state rank list from the National Board of Examinations, which conducted these tests,” said state selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan. The board conducted the NEET-PG 2018 last year and the results were declared in January, but the state has not received the rank list.
Meanwhile, on Monday, at 5pm the directorate closed options for registration, exercising of choices and locking of choices for the All India quota. Many doctors have locked their choices and the allotment of first round will begin on Tuesday. Students will have to join the allotted colleges by April 3. “But most of our doctors are not aware of their status in the state. How will they be able to make an informed choice without this information?” asks Doctors Association of Social Equality general secretary Dr G R Ravindranth.
Although officials at the directorate of medical education said that they have written to the National Board of Examination, medical aspirants say that thestate has badly let them down. “My first choiceis radiology. I may not get the course in the first round in all India quota. I may be offered paediatrics but if I know my state rank, I will know whether to take or let go of what is offered. Although first round is not considered final, it will waste all our time and efforts,” said a student, on condition of anonymity.
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