Write-well sessions for medical students
Yogesh.Tejwani@timesgroup.com
Indore: 06.10.2018
Two days after Allahabad high court fined three doctors ₹5,000 each for bad handwriting, Indore’s MGM Medical College announced that it will coach medical students in handwriting skills to make life easier for patients.
“We are coming up with a classroom training session for students and a seminar session for doctors to improve their writing skills,” MGM dean Dr Jyoti Bindal told TOI. “Handwriting has long been a problem for doctors and it has turned into a sort of social stigma. Sometimes people even say that doctors deliberately write in such bad handwriting that nobody else but they can understand it. We want this to end.,” added Dr Bindal.
There may be a zillion jokes on doctors’ handwriting, but things get deadly serious if medicines get mixed up because of an illegible prescription.
Also, illegible scrawls on prescriptions often turn into legal disputes in medical insurance claims. Even the Ayushman Bharat Scheme has a special directive for legible handwriting. “It says that if the medical prescription is found unreadable, the beneficiary will not be able to claim insurance,” said Dr Bindal.
Medical college students are quite excited about getting hands on with their writing.
“Although it will be an extra burden for us along with the studies, it is important and will be a stress buster activity,” said Manisha Goyal, a student of MGM Medical College.
Yogesh.Tejwani@timesgroup.com
Indore: 06.10.2018
Two days after Allahabad high court fined three doctors ₹5,000 each for bad handwriting, Indore’s MGM Medical College announced that it will coach medical students in handwriting skills to make life easier for patients.
“We are coming up with a classroom training session for students and a seminar session for doctors to improve their writing skills,” MGM dean Dr Jyoti Bindal told TOI. “Handwriting has long been a problem for doctors and it has turned into a sort of social stigma. Sometimes people even say that doctors deliberately write in such bad handwriting that nobody else but they can understand it. We want this to end.,” added Dr Bindal.
There may be a zillion jokes on doctors’ handwriting, but things get deadly serious if medicines get mixed up because of an illegible prescription.
Also, illegible scrawls on prescriptions often turn into legal disputes in medical insurance claims. Even the Ayushman Bharat Scheme has a special directive for legible handwriting. “It says that if the medical prescription is found unreadable, the beneficiary will not be able to claim insurance,” said Dr Bindal.
Medical college students are quite excited about getting hands on with their writing.
“Although it will be an extra burden for us along with the studies, it is important and will be a stress buster activity,” said Manisha Goyal, a student of MGM Medical College.
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