Tamil Nadu adds 161 postgraduate medical seats
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:25.02.2020
Tamil Nadu has added 161 more postgraduate seats in government medical colleges for admission that is likely to begin in March 2020. This will take the number of PG medical seats in the state to 1,919, director of medical education Dr R Narayana Babu said.
Last year, the state added 508 postgraduate seats and admitted 1,758 students. It has 2,900 undergraduate medical seats. While a major share of the 40% increase in 2019 came through conversion of PG diploma seats — barring three in diabetology — into PG degree programmes, the state increased the number of seats for orthopaedic, general surgery, radiology and anaesthesia this year.
“Equipping trauma care centres set up by the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Initiative is one of our top priorities,” Dr Babu said.
For 2021, the state has applied for 100 seats in emergency medicine, besides 288 in other specialities. This year, the state, which has 334 super-speciality seats, will add 25 more.
State health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the increase in PG seats will directly benefit healthcare services in the state. Last year the number of obstetricians-gynaecologists passing out of government colleges every year will go up from 109 to 203, and the number of anaesthesiologists will go up from 126 to 193. There will also 29 more general surgeons and 18 more general medicine practitioners from the state colleges.
With MCI now mandating that every medical college to start PG courses, more colleges in the state will start applying, officials said. The Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 says medical colleges have to apply for permission to start postgraduate medical education courses within three years of grant of recognition or three years from the date of inclusion of the MBBS qualification. In 2021, Omandurar Medical College, Government Sivaganga Medical College and Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College will apply at least 50 seats each. “Appplications for colleges in Karur, Pudukottai and ESI-Coimbatore are in the pipeline,” a senior official said.
This year, the state will surrender nearly 1,000 seats to the Directorate General of Health Services for admission under the all-India quota.
The first round of admission for MD and MS courses in medicine will be completed by March 29 and the second round will end on April 12. The seats that remain vacant after two rounds of counselling will be returned to the state selection committee on April 22.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:25.02.2020
Tamil Nadu has added 161 more postgraduate seats in government medical colleges for admission that is likely to begin in March 2020. This will take the number of PG medical seats in the state to 1,919, director of medical education Dr R Narayana Babu said.
Last year, the state added 508 postgraduate seats and admitted 1,758 students. It has 2,900 undergraduate medical seats. While a major share of the 40% increase in 2019 came through conversion of PG diploma seats — barring three in diabetology — into PG degree programmes, the state increased the number of seats for orthopaedic, general surgery, radiology and anaesthesia this year.
“Equipping trauma care centres set up by the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Initiative is one of our top priorities,” Dr Babu said.
For 2021, the state has applied for 100 seats in emergency medicine, besides 288 in other specialities. This year, the state, which has 334 super-speciality seats, will add 25 more.
State health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the increase in PG seats will directly benefit healthcare services in the state. Last year the number of obstetricians-gynaecologists passing out of government colleges every year will go up from 109 to 203, and the number of anaesthesiologists will go up from 126 to 193. There will also 29 more general surgeons and 18 more general medicine practitioners from the state colleges.
With MCI now mandating that every medical college to start PG courses, more colleges in the state will start applying, officials said. The Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 says medical colleges have to apply for permission to start postgraduate medical education courses within three years of grant of recognition or three years from the date of inclusion of the MBBS qualification. In 2021, Omandurar Medical College, Government Sivaganga Medical College and Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College will apply at least 50 seats each. “Appplications for colleges in Karur, Pudukottai and ESI-Coimbatore are in the pipeline,” a senior official said.
This year, the state will surrender nearly 1,000 seats to the Directorate General of Health Services for admission under the all-India quota.
The first round of admission for MD and MS courses in medicine will be completed by March 29 and the second round will end on April 12. The seats that remain vacant after two rounds of counselling will be returned to the state selection committee on April 22.
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