MBBS graduates from Telangana ’s private medical colleges have never had a class of anatomy
TNN | Feb 26, 2019, 07.33 AM IST
TNN | Feb 26, 2019, 07.33 AM IST
HYDERABAD: In wake of the fiasco over non-conducting of classes at the Maheshwara Medical College for over a month now, the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA) has said that there are many other medical colleges which are not conducting classes regularly, especially when it comes to anatomy classes.
In the absence of anatomy dissection classes, MBBS graduates are passing out without basic knowledge of the human body. Anatomy is a basic for completing MBBS but a dearth of professors, have left many future doctors in the lurch. In many cases, it is the inability of the private medical colleges to get a cadaver for carrying out anatomy classes.
“This has happened several times before with other private medical colleges too. In some medical colleges (classes on) anatomy dissection are not being held. In fact, in many colleges annual exams were held without conducting anatomy dissection classes even once, because of which students have been losing out on academic knowledge. This issue was also represented to higher officials of the health department previously but no action was taken,” said TJUDA president Dr P S Vijayender Goud.
Difficulty in getting cadavers for carrying out anatomy classes stems from the tightening of norms. “It has become very difficult to get a cadaver now. Earlier when rules were less stringent, there was some movement of unclaimed bodies through mortuaries but that has come in control now with GHMC cremating or burying unidentified and unclaimed bodies. In absence of any rules for donating or selling such bodies to private colleges, getting a cadaver has become a problem,” said IMA state secretary Dr Sanjeev Singh Yadav.
Another reason affecting classes at private colleges are ghost faculty - doctors practising in the near vicinity shown as faculty on paper. “These faculty members exist only on paper and after getting MCI approvals, college managements leave the medical students without any classes. In one particular college, not a single anatomy class was conducted in the entire 2018,” said Dr P S Vijayender Goud.
In the absence of anatomy dissection classes, MBBS graduates are passing out without basic knowledge of the human body. Anatomy is a basic for completing MBBS but a dearth of professors, have left many future doctors in the lurch. In many cases, it is the inability of the private medical colleges to get a cadaver for carrying out anatomy classes.
“This has happened several times before with other private medical colleges too. In some medical colleges (classes on) anatomy dissection are not being held. In fact, in many colleges annual exams were held without conducting anatomy dissection classes even once, because of which students have been losing out on academic knowledge. This issue was also represented to higher officials of the health department previously but no action was taken,” said TJUDA president Dr P S Vijayender Goud.
Difficulty in getting cadavers for carrying out anatomy classes stems from the tightening of norms. “It has become very difficult to get a cadaver now. Earlier when rules were less stringent, there was some movement of unclaimed bodies through mortuaries but that has come in control now with GHMC cremating or burying unidentified and unclaimed bodies. In absence of any rules for donating or selling such bodies to private colleges, getting a cadaver has become a problem,” said IMA state secretary Dr Sanjeev Singh Yadav.
Another reason affecting classes at private colleges are ghost faculty - doctors practising in the near vicinity shown as faculty on paper. “These faculty members exist only on paper and after getting MCI approvals, college managements leave the medical students without any classes. In one particular college, not a single anatomy class was conducted in the entire 2018,” said Dr P S Vijayender Goud.
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