SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS DOING DUTIES WITH FIRST-YEAR SEATS NOT FILLED

SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS DOING DUTIES WITH FIRST-YEAR SEATS NOT FILLED

NEET SS delay: Senior residents bear juniors’ load

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: 14.11.2021 

Senior resident doctors pursuing super specialty courses at medical colleges in Gujarat are forced to handle duties assigned to first-year resident doctors for six more months due to delays in the admission process.

“Students who joined the first year of super-specialty courses last year and are now in their second year, have to continue the medical duties of their juniors as the firstyear resident doctors are yet to enroll for their courses,” said an MD doctor who has completed his PG medical studies this year and is waiting for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Super Specialty (NEET SS) 2021 exams to be held. The first-year students have to carry ward duties as part of their studies.

There are about 100 seats for super-specialty courses in the state. The exam was earlier to be held on November 11 but it has been postponed to January 10, 2022.

The MD doctor quoted earlier said he was offered a job at a corporate hospital in Ahmedabad but he could not join due to repeated delays in NEET SS exam.

“The term for first-year students starts in September-October, but this time it is not likely to start before March next year. So, the second-year students will have handle duties of junior doctors for another six months,” he said.

Another aspirant who wants to join the three-year super specialty course said his studies for a PG medical programme ended in July and he is waiting for the NEET SS exams.

“For the last ten years there has been some issue or the other during exams,” said the PG qualified doctor.

The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences had originally planned to conduct the NEET SS 2021 in a new pattern. Forty-one PGqualified doctors moved the Supreme Court of India, stating that the last-minute changes will have an adverse effect on the candidates.

The Supreme Court came down heavily stating that it cannot make last-minute changes to such an important exam.