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Friday, March 8, 2019
Promotion of 30 docs who did not meet research criterion withheld
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:08.03.2019
At least one in 10 government doctors with the experience to be promoted as a professor was denied promotion as he/she did not satisfy the Medical Council of India (MCI) criteria of publishing at least four research papers in indexed medical journals as first or corresponding authors.
The director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe said resumes of about 30 doctors out of 300 were withheld for promotion after the directorate found that they have not published adequate papers that help them qualify.
“Most of these teachers had enough experience and satisfied other criteria, but without research they will not get promotions. Assistant professors too should have at least two papers to qualify as associate professors,” he said. The state said vacant positions in the posts would be filled as soon as these doctors provide evidence that their work had been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication.
But senior doctors said while the number of publications might go up, the quality and standards were likely to be compromised if research is done without passion and just for the sake of promotion. “Doctors in government have access to quality clinical material and data. The intention of urging doctors to do research is to get evidences for policies. If doctors are rushing research for promotion, we will have heaps of research papers that can be put to no use,” said a senior professor at the Madras Medical College.
As per the MCI rule, assistant professors must have four years of experience and at least two research papers to be promoted as associate professors, and from then on they need at least two years experience and two more research papers before they are promoted as professors. “It is not difficult to publish research papers but we don’t have that many research grants. There is tough competition for small grants. When doctors are dealing with overcrowded wards it may not be easy for them to spend time competing for research grants. If doctors must do research, they should be given the time and money,” said Dr A Ramalingam, state secretary for service doctors and PG association.
To make things tougher, the state medical council is insisting doctors complete at least 90 hours of medical education for a block of every five years. A gazette notification, published in November 2018, said all doctors in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands must comply with the code of ethics of the council that mandates 30 credit hours – 90 absolute hours – of attending medical education programmes conducted by recognised or accredited organisations.
“Doctors have to pay ₹50 to carry forward deficit credit hours for the next year,” said state medical council president Dr K Senthil.
“If the hours are not completed in the next year too, the fine has to paid once again,” Dr Senthil said.
STUMBLING BLOCK:Doctors said fund crunch and demanding work schedule came as hurdles in their way
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:08.03.2019
At least one in 10 government doctors with the experience to be promoted as a professor was denied promotion as he/she did not satisfy the Medical Council of India (MCI) criteria of publishing at least four research papers in indexed medical journals as first or corresponding authors.
The director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe said resumes of about 30 doctors out of 300 were withheld for promotion after the directorate found that they have not published adequate papers that help them qualify.
“Most of these teachers had enough experience and satisfied other criteria, but without research they will not get promotions. Assistant professors too should have at least two papers to qualify as associate professors,” he said. The state said vacant positions in the posts would be filled as soon as these doctors provide evidence that their work had been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication.
But senior doctors said while the number of publications might go up, the quality and standards were likely to be compromised if research is done without passion and just for the sake of promotion. “Doctors in government have access to quality clinical material and data. The intention of urging doctors to do research is to get evidences for policies. If doctors are rushing research for promotion, we will have heaps of research papers that can be put to no use,” said a senior professor at the Madras Medical College.
As per the MCI rule, assistant professors must have four years of experience and at least two research papers to be promoted as associate professors, and from then on they need at least two years experience and two more research papers before they are promoted as professors. “It is not difficult to publish research papers but we don’t have that many research grants. There is tough competition for small grants. When doctors are dealing with overcrowded wards it may not be easy for them to spend time competing for research grants. If doctors must do research, they should be given the time and money,” said Dr A Ramalingam, state secretary for service doctors and PG association.
To make things tougher, the state medical council is insisting doctors complete at least 90 hours of medical education for a block of every five years. A gazette notification, published in November 2018, said all doctors in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands must comply with the code of ethics of the council that mandates 30 credit hours – 90 absolute hours – of attending medical education programmes conducted by recognised or accredited organisations.
“Doctors have to pay ₹50 to carry forward deficit credit hours for the next year,” said state medical council president Dr K Senthil.
“If the hours are not completed in the next year too, the fine has to paid once again,” Dr Senthil said.
STUMBLING BLOCK:Doctors said fund crunch and demanding work schedule came as hurdles in their way
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
This med college produces docs but has few patients
Patient Care Is Most Crucial Aspect Of Medical Training, RKDF Rigged MCI Inspections With Fake Patients
Rema Nagarajan & P Naveen TNN
27.02.2019 TOI
For four years, Medical Council of India (MCI) repeatedly flagged concerns about a private college in Madhya Pradesh but could not stop it from taking in three batches of students. One batch of 150 doctors is now in its final year of MBBS while another just appeared for second-year exams.
The story of RKDF Medical College, which finally faced a Supreme Court crackdown in January, shows how blatantly such colleges exploit the legal process to stay in business.
MCI and a Supreme Court-appointed inspection committee had noted “fictitious” patients in the teaching hospital, falsified medical records and “grossly inadequate” patient load. Although the SC has ordered that the third batch admitted in 2017-18 be shifted to other private colleges in MP, the 2014-15 and 2016-17 batches remain at RKDF college. It’s anyone’s guess just how many real patients these soon-to-be doctors have seen.
It was business as usual at the college when TOI visited it around 11.30am on January 30. The dean, Dr S S Kushwaha, offered a tour of the college and hospital to show it had enough patients and required facilities. He also suggested a visit to the hostels to talk to students. However, TOI found an empty hospital with wards locked up, defunct operation theatres, no patients in the postoperative ward or anywhere else, barring a handful in the OPD area. The OPD rooms had no doctors, and the blood bank was deserted too.
The hostel visit didn’t materialise, ostensibly because students had left after the exams. When told no patients or students were around, Dr Kushwaha claimed patients mostly visited the hospital after 4.30pm. However, on a repeat visit the same evening, he admitted there were no patients, hence no point in repeating a tour of the hospital.
An employee who played guide said the college has three “public relations officers” who bus in ‘patients’ from nearby villages before inspections. Dr Kushwaha said they had separate funds to get “clinical material” (read patients) for students.
Incidentally, Dr Kushwaha was Madhya Pradesh’s director of medical education from January 2014 to the time he joined RKDF college as dean immediately after his retirement in 2015.
Asked why teaching is allowed to continue at a college the SC had found to have “indulged in large-scale malpractices” to comply with the minimum standards for admitting students, officials in the MP Directorate of Medical Education said it was up to Medical Council of India or the courts to shut it down.
“The students studying there have not complained or gone to court. How can we take any action?” said an official while agreeing that students passing out as doctors without treating genuine patients and getting proper training was a concern.
RKDF college is shown on the MCI website as affiliated to the state-run Barkatullah University, though Kushwaha said they were not affiliated anymore. Asked if their affiliation had been withdrawn after the SC order, he said that was not possible as they are affiliated to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University, a private university owned by the RKDF Group, which runs a veritable education empire in Madhya Pradesh, including colleges of nursing, pharmacy, dental science, homoeopathy and Ayurveda.
What that suggests is for the RKDF Group, and Dr Kushwaha, the crores in SC-imposed fines or being labelled by the apex court as a fraudulent institution is no more than a pause. The business of education rolls on without any full stops.
Patient Care Is Most Crucial Aspect Of Medical Training, RKDF Rigged MCI Inspections With Fake Patients
Rema Nagarajan & P Naveen TNN
27.02.2019 TOI
For four years, Medical Council of India (MCI) repeatedly flagged concerns about a private college in Madhya Pradesh but could not stop it from taking in three batches of students. One batch of 150 doctors is now in its final year of MBBS while another just appeared for second-year exams.
The story of RKDF Medical College, which finally faced a Supreme Court crackdown in January, shows how blatantly such colleges exploit the legal process to stay in business.
MCI and a Supreme Court-appointed inspection committee had noted “fictitious” patients in the teaching hospital, falsified medical records and “grossly inadequate” patient load. Although the SC has ordered that the third batch admitted in 2017-18 be shifted to other private colleges in MP, the 2014-15 and 2016-17 batches remain at RKDF college. It’s anyone’s guess just how many real patients these soon-to-be doctors have seen.
It was business as usual at the college when TOI visited it around 11.30am on January 30. The dean, Dr S S Kushwaha, offered a tour of the college and hospital to show it had enough patients and required facilities. He also suggested a visit to the hostels to talk to students. However, TOI found an empty hospital with wards locked up, defunct operation theatres, no patients in the postoperative ward or anywhere else, barring a handful in the OPD area. The OPD rooms had no doctors, and the blood bank was deserted too.
The hostel visit didn’t materialise, ostensibly because students had left after the exams. When told no patients or students were around, Dr Kushwaha claimed patients mostly visited the hospital after 4.30pm. However, on a repeat visit the same evening, he admitted there were no patients, hence no point in repeating a tour of the hospital.
An employee who played guide said the college has three “public relations officers” who bus in ‘patients’ from nearby villages before inspections. Dr Kushwaha said they had separate funds to get “clinical material” (read patients) for students.
Incidentally, Dr Kushwaha was Madhya Pradesh’s director of medical education from January 2014 to the time he joined RKDF college as dean immediately after his retirement in 2015.
Asked why teaching is allowed to continue at a college the SC had found to have “indulged in large-scale malpractices” to comply with the minimum standards for admitting students, officials in the MP Directorate of Medical Education said it was up to Medical Council of India or the courts to shut it down.
“The students studying there have not complained or gone to court. How can we take any action?” said an official while agreeing that students passing out as doctors without treating genuine patients and getting proper training was a concern.
RKDF college is shown on the MCI website as affiliated to the state-run Barkatullah University, though Kushwaha said they were not affiliated anymore. Asked if their affiliation had been withdrawn after the SC order, he said that was not possible as they are affiliated to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University, a private university owned by the RKDF Group, which runs a veritable education empire in Madhya Pradesh, including colleges of nursing, pharmacy, dental science, homoeopathy and Ayurveda.
What that suggests is for the RKDF Group, and Dr Kushwaha, the crores in SC-imposed fines or being labelled by the apex court as a fraudulent institution is no more than a pause. The business of education rolls on without any full stops.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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Monday, February 25, 2019
Government likely to ease medical college norms
Under the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act, 1956, licences to run a medical college or add seats are denied when institutions do not meet the minimal requirements for infrastructure, faculty and clinical work, among others.
New Delhi
Government may ease medical college norms(HT File Photo)
In a move likely to dilute the norms for setting up medical colleges, the Union health ministry is set to notify a regulation giving institutions the licence to function with fewer students if they do not meet the eligibility criteria for clinical work and faculty strength.
Ministry officials privy to the matter said the new norms, expected to be notified within 10 days, propose to grant such medical colleges the approval to function with the condition that the number of students can be increased when the institution meets infrastructure requirements.
Under the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act, 1956, licences to run a medical college or add seats are denied when institutions do not meet the minimal requirements for infrastructure, faculty and clinical work, among others.
Dr VK Paul, chairman, board of governors, MCI, confirmed the proposed change in norms. “We have modified the rules. It can be called ease of business, as we aren’t flouting norms but only asking colleges falling short at, say, one level to admit students in proportion to their standards. We are allowing them to function the same year, rather than asking them to come back again the next year,” he said.
Several private medical colleges are found to be deficient in clinical requirements, having an inadequate number of patients visiting the out-patient department (OPD) and not enough occupied beds in the associated hospital where students get mandatory hands-on skill training in treatment and care.
“While private colleges struggle to get adequate number of patients, government colleges get rejected mostly because of faculty shortfall. But around 90% of licences rejected are for private colleges because they apply hoping that by the time of inspection, they would have things in place,” said a health ministry official requesting anonymity.
“Last year, only 21 of 80 applications were approved as the others didn’t meet the required criteria of proportion of patients treated in the attached hospital to the number of students they wanted to admit,” said another senior health ministry official not authorised to speak to the media on condition of anonymity.
Once the new norms are notified, colleges with adequate infrastructure to run the first-year undergraduate course will get approval for one year. Approval for the remaining years will come once they have added the required infrastructure.
“What is the point of wasting resources? We have a shortage of colleges, so if a college is functional, we should give it a chance to improve while it’s running. The norms, however, will apply only if the college agrees to it,” said Dr Paul. Reacting to the proposal, Dr KK Talwar, former chairman of the board of governors, MCI, said, “It’s not a bad move as it makes efficient use of the existing system, but the evaluation process has to be thorough and transparent.”
First Published: Feb 24, 2019 09:39 IST
Under the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act, 1956, licences to run a medical college or add seats are denied when institutions do not meet the minimal requirements for infrastructure, faculty and clinical work, among others.
INDIA
Updated: Feb 24, 2019 10:42 IST
New Delhi
Government may ease medical college norms(HT File Photo)
In a move likely to dilute the norms for setting up medical colleges, the Union health ministry is set to notify a regulation giving institutions the licence to function with fewer students if they do not meet the eligibility criteria for clinical work and faculty strength.
Ministry officials privy to the matter said the new norms, expected to be notified within 10 days, propose to grant such medical colleges the approval to function with the condition that the number of students can be increased when the institution meets infrastructure requirements.
Under the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act, 1956, licences to run a medical college or add seats are denied when institutions do not meet the minimal requirements for infrastructure, faculty and clinical work, among others.
Dr VK Paul, chairman, board of governors, MCI, confirmed the proposed change in norms. “We have modified the rules. It can be called ease of business, as we aren’t flouting norms but only asking colleges falling short at, say, one level to admit students in proportion to their standards. We are allowing them to function the same year, rather than asking them to come back again the next year,” he said.
Several private medical colleges are found to be deficient in clinical requirements, having an inadequate number of patients visiting the out-patient department (OPD) and not enough occupied beds in the associated hospital where students get mandatory hands-on skill training in treatment and care.
“While private colleges struggle to get adequate number of patients, government colleges get rejected mostly because of faculty shortfall. But around 90% of licences rejected are for private colleges because they apply hoping that by the time of inspection, they would have things in place,” said a health ministry official requesting anonymity.
“Last year, only 21 of 80 applications were approved as the others didn’t meet the required criteria of proportion of patients treated in the attached hospital to the number of students they wanted to admit,” said another senior health ministry official not authorised to speak to the media on condition of anonymity.
Once the new norms are notified, colleges with adequate infrastructure to run the first-year undergraduate course will get approval for one year. Approval for the remaining years will come once they have added the required infrastructure.
“What is the point of wasting resources? We have a shortage of colleges, so if a college is functional, we should give it a chance to improve while it’s running. The norms, however, will apply only if the college agrees to it,” said Dr Paul. Reacting to the proposal, Dr KK Talwar, former chairman of the board of governors, MCI, said, “It’s not a bad move as it makes efficient use of the existing system, but the evaluation process has to be thorough and transparent.”
First Published: Feb 24, 2019 09:39 IST
Sunday, February 24, 2019
MCI secretary general resigns, new 'acting' head appointed
IANS |
New Delhi
Last Updated at February 22, 2019 23:40 IST
MCI, which is the the apex body that regulated medical education in the country, on its website had last updated the page on February 19 which has mentioned Prof. Siddarth Ramji taking over as the Acting Secretary General.
A former deputy director general at the directorate general of health services (DGHS) Shrivastava, has been appointed the secretary general to assist the Board of Governance (BOG) last year which was formed by the government through an ordinance.
The seven members in the BoG include three doctors from the AIIMS- Dr VK Paul (former HoD paediatrics and current member, Niti Aayog), Dr Randeep Guleria (director) and Dr Nikhil Tandon (professor endocrinology).
There are two other doctors -- Dr Jagat Ram (director-PGI Chandigarh) and Dr BN Gangadhar (director- National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) -- and two ex officio members - Dr S Venkatesh (Director General of Health Services) and Dr Balram Bhargava (Director General- Indian Council of Medical Research).
Despite multiple approaches to Paul, Dr Tandon and S. Venkatesh, none of the BoG members were ready to speak on the matter.
--IANS
Delhi HC sends notice to Centre, MCI over delay in amending educational regulations
Source : Last Updated: Sat, Feb 23, 2019 16:47 hrs [India] Feb 23 (ANI):
The Delhi High Court has sought responses from the Centre and the Medical Council of India (MCI) over a delay in issuing amendments to Graduation Medical Educational Regulations (GMER) 2018. A division bench of the Delhi High Court presided by Chief Justice of Delhi Rajendra Menon directed the respondents to file their reply within four weeks and slated the matter for hearing on May 3.
The petition filed by Dr Indrajit Khandekar through his counsel Gaurav Kumar Bansal said the MCI has not amended GMER and, as a result, aspirants pursuing MBBS are still referring to outdated study material. The petition further states that it is not only affecting medical jurisprudence but is also hampering the criminal justice delivery system. Earlier, the petitioner had approached MCI through an RTI and was told that the revised draft of Graduation Medical Regulation 2018 is still pending for approval.
While there has been a tremendous change in medical examinations worldwide, India has not witnessed any revision since 1997. This is resulting in medical students across the country adopting outdated practices, said the petition. (ANI)
Read more at: http://www.sify.com/news/delhi-hc-sends-notice-to-centre-mci-over-delay-in-amending-educational-regulations-news-national-tcxqL1jheffbf.html
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Monday, February 18, 2019
After 2 yrs as doctor, law turns polio-hit man 'ineligible'
TNN | Feb 18, 2019, 05.53 AM IST
After completing MBBS in 2016 in a government college and working as a junior resident for almost two years, Dr Mohammad Shaloo, who has post-polio residual paralysis, has cleared the postgraduate entrance exam but has been told that under the new Medical Council of India guidelines, he is "ineligible" to study further.
Despite both his legs being affected with polio, Dr Shaloo, from Makrana in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, was determined to become a doctor. He went to Kota for coaching and in 2011 got admission in the government medical college in Ajmer under the disability quota after being certified as having over 50% disability. The quota is for those with over 40% disability.
After MBBS, he did eight months as a junior resident (JR) in the paediatrics department of his college and was then selected on a temporary basis as a JR in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department of RML Hospital in Delhi where he worked for a year. He then cleared the NEET PG exam. However, in Safdarjung Hospital's PMR department, he was told that as he had over 90% disability, he was "ineligible for admission".
The eligibility guidelines for undergraduate medical education fixed by MCI and notified on February 4 stated that those with disability beyond 80% would be ineligible for MBBS. This was despite the health ministry suggesting that the amendments to the Regulations for Graduate Medical Education 1997 should allow students with over 80% locomotor disability to appear for MBBS entrance and determine their functional competency with the aid of assistive devices if they were selected. "They have come up with these arbitrary guidelines for undergraduate medical education and now the same is being applied to postgraduates too. Dr Shaloo's case shows how ridiculous this is. He has already done his MBBS. How can you question his competency? Ironically, he was doing residency in the PMR department and these guidelines were framed by a single person in AIIMS PMR department," said Dr Satendra Singh of Doctors With Disabilities, a group of over 75 practising doctors with various disabilities.
"After having achieved my dream to become a doctor and worked as one for almost two years, it hurt to see the word 'ineligible' on the disability certificate given by Safdarjung Hospital," said Dr Shaloo, who is waiting for an order posting him in the Community Health Centre in Nagour district.
His colleague in the PMR department felt that the 80% cut-off to decide eligibility was arbitrary. "Why 80%? Why not 90%? You are disqualifying a person by an arbitrary number?" the colleague said.
Ayushman Bharat, MCI restructuring, MBBS curriculum revision highlights of health ministry
The new MBBS curriculum finalised by the Medical Council of India Board of Governors this month includes modules on ethics and communication and will be followed from the 2019-20 academic session.
PTI|
Dec 27, 2018, 03.23 PM IST
Read more at:
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TNN | Feb 18, 2019, 05.53 AM IST
After completing MBBS in 2016 in a government college and working as a junior resident for almost two years, Dr Mohammad Shaloo, who has post-polio residual paralysis, has cleared the postgraduate entrance exam but has been told that under the new Medical Council of India guidelines, he is "ineligible" to study further.
Despite both his legs being affected with polio, Dr Shaloo, from Makrana in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, was determined to become a doctor. He went to Kota for coaching and in 2011 got admission in the government medical college in Ajmer under the disability quota after being certified as having over 50% disability. The quota is for those with over 40% disability.
After MBBS, he did eight months as a junior resident (JR) in the paediatrics department of his college and was then selected on a temporary basis as a JR in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department of RML Hospital in Delhi where he worked for a year. He then cleared the NEET PG exam. However, in Safdarjung Hospital's PMR department, he was told that as he had over 90% disability, he was "ineligible for admission".
The eligibility guidelines for undergraduate medical education fixed by MCI and notified on February 4 stated that those with disability beyond 80% would be ineligible for MBBS. This was despite the health ministry suggesting that the amendments to the Regulations for Graduate Medical Education 1997 should allow students with over 80% locomotor disability to appear for MBBS entrance and determine their functional competency with the aid of assistive devices if they were selected. "They have come up with these arbitrary guidelines for undergraduate medical education and now the same is being applied to postgraduates too. Dr Shaloo's case shows how ridiculous this is. He has already done his MBBS. How can you question his competency? Ironically, he was doing residency in the PMR department and these guidelines were framed by a single person in AIIMS PMR department," said Dr Satendra Singh of Doctors With Disabilities, a group of over 75 practising doctors with various disabilities.
"After having achieved my dream to become a doctor and worked as one for almost two years, it hurt to see the word 'ineligible' on the disability certificate given by Safdarjung Hospital," said Dr Shaloo, who is waiting for an order posting him in the Community Health Centre in Nagour district.
His colleague in the PMR department felt that the 80% cut-off to decide eligibility was arbitrary. "Why 80%? Why not 90%? You are disqualifying a person by an arbitrary number?" the colleague said.
Ayushman Bharat, MCI restructuring, MBBS curriculum revision highlights of health ministry
The new MBBS curriculum finalised by the Medical Council of India Board of Governors this month includes modules on ethics and communication and will be followed from the 2019-20 academic session.
PTI|
Dec 27, 2018, 03.23 PM IST
Read more at:
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Unfair that disabled cannot practice MBBS, say experts to Nadda
Our Bureau New Delhi | Updated on February 13, 2019 Published on February 13, 2019
Union Health Minister JP Nadda. File Photo
Union Health Ministry's revised regulations prohibiting those with certain disabilities from getting admitted to MBBS has attracted ire from activists and experts.
The revised regulations state that those with locomotor disabilities above 80 per cent are prohibited from getting admitted to MBBS, as it pronounces them “ineligible”.
The latest “Amendment Notification” of February 4, 2019 to modifying the Regulation on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 states these clauses.
Same is true with those with blood disorders. The notification also debars students with chronic neurological conditions with a disability of over 80 per cent. It further states that those with visual impairment and hearing impairment would be eligible only if their disability is brought down to less than 40 per cent with the aid of assistive devices.
In the new notification, dysgraphia – the inability to write coherently, has been excluded from Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD). Experts find this intriguing. “The notification does admit that currently there is Quantification scale available to assess the severity of SpLD. We however, apprehend that this will be utilized to deny admission to students with Specific Learning Disorders,” said Muralidharan Vishwanath, General Secretary, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD).
Activists have urged Union Health Minister JP Nadda seeking revision of discriminatory regulations for admissions to MBBS.
“These amended regulations debarring certain categories of disabled persons from pursuing medicine is a clear violation of the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the rules framed thereunder. It is also in contempt of the Supreme Court directions,” said Muralidharan.
The revision of regulations was based on what NPRD had deemed highly objectionable guidelines published by Medical Council of India last year.
“These guidelines were drafted without proper application of mind, oblivious of the best practices worldwide and divorced from the reality that advances in science and technology have become great enablers,” said Muralidharan.
“Permit me to quote, Stanley F. Wainapel who says, how many physicians who are not specialists in the medical care of people with disabilities would be aware that a paraplegic doctor can stand up in the operating room using a special device, that a physician whose vision precludes reading chart notes can easily access electronic medical records using screen-reading software, or that a medical student with a hearing impairment can do cardiac auscultation using an electronic stethoscope? These examples of existing technological accommodations emphasize the central role of technology in enhancing the functional potential of those with motor or sensory limitations.”
Noted Hemato-oncologist, Suresh Advani who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan is a living example of a wheel chair user with disability of above 80 per cent, stated the NPRD letter to Nadda
“Making such persons “ineligible” in fact militates against the suggestion made by your ministry that persons having a disability of above 80 per cent may be allowed subject to their functional competency being determined with the aid of assistive devices post their selection,” the letter further states.
NPRD has urged Nadda to direct the MCI to reframe guidelines that would act as an enabler for persons with disabilities to pursue a career in medicine rather than act as a deterrent.
“We also opine that department/institutions like Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, ICMR, DGHS, Directors of all National Institutes on Disabilities under Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as well as experts from other institutions who jointly framed disability assessment guidelines, also be involved in this process, as they are better equipped to deal with disability related issues,” states the letter.
Our Bureau New Delhi | Updated on February 13, 2019 Published on February 13, 2019
Union Health Minister JP Nadda. File Photo
Union Health Ministry's revised regulations prohibiting those with certain disabilities from getting admitted to MBBS has attracted ire from activists and experts.
The revised regulations state that those with locomotor disabilities above 80 per cent are prohibited from getting admitted to MBBS, as it pronounces them “ineligible”.
The latest “Amendment Notification” of February 4, 2019 to modifying the Regulation on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 states these clauses.
Same is true with those with blood disorders. The notification also debars students with chronic neurological conditions with a disability of over 80 per cent. It further states that those with visual impairment and hearing impairment would be eligible only if their disability is brought down to less than 40 per cent with the aid of assistive devices.
In the new notification, dysgraphia – the inability to write coherently, has been excluded from Specific Learning Disabilities (SpLD). Experts find this intriguing. “The notification does admit that currently there is Quantification scale available to assess the severity of SpLD. We however, apprehend that this will be utilized to deny admission to students with Specific Learning Disorders,” said Muralidharan Vishwanath, General Secretary, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD).
Activists have urged Union Health Minister JP Nadda seeking revision of discriminatory regulations for admissions to MBBS.
“These amended regulations debarring certain categories of disabled persons from pursuing medicine is a clear violation of the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the rules framed thereunder. It is also in contempt of the Supreme Court directions,” said Muralidharan.
The revision of regulations was based on what NPRD had deemed highly objectionable guidelines published by Medical Council of India last year.
“These guidelines were drafted without proper application of mind, oblivious of the best practices worldwide and divorced from the reality that advances in science and technology have become great enablers,” said Muralidharan.
“Permit me to quote, Stanley F. Wainapel who says, how many physicians who are not specialists in the medical care of people with disabilities would be aware that a paraplegic doctor can stand up in the operating room using a special device, that a physician whose vision precludes reading chart notes can easily access electronic medical records using screen-reading software, or that a medical student with a hearing impairment can do cardiac auscultation using an electronic stethoscope? These examples of existing technological accommodations emphasize the central role of technology in enhancing the functional potential of those with motor or sensory limitations.”
Noted Hemato-oncologist, Suresh Advani who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan is a living example of a wheel chair user with disability of above 80 per cent, stated the NPRD letter to Nadda
“Making such persons “ineligible” in fact militates against the suggestion made by your ministry that persons having a disability of above 80 per cent may be allowed subject to their functional competency being determined with the aid of assistive devices post their selection,” the letter further states.
NPRD has urged Nadda to direct the MCI to reframe guidelines that would act as an enabler for persons with disabilities to pursue a career in medicine rather than act as a deterrent.
“We also opine that department/institutions like Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, ICMR, DGHS, Directors of all National Institutes on Disabilities under Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as well as experts from other institutions who jointly framed disability assessment guidelines, also be involved in this process, as they are better equipped to deal with disability related issues,” states the letter.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
The number of medical students headed abroad is rising fast. Here’s why
Steep fees in private medical colleges, limited seats in govt ones, and the increase in IB schools are some of the factors responsible.
Hindustan Times
The number of students applying for admission to medical courses abroad is high, and rising steeply. A response to a recent Right to Information (or RTI) application stated that the Medical Council of India (MCI) has issued 3,386 more eligibility certificates to foreign medical aspirants in 2018 than in 2017, a rise of about 24%. The year before, the number had nearly doubled.
The mandate of getting an eligibility certificate to study medicine abroad came into force only from January 2014 and ever since the numbers have been rising sharply every year.
“One set of students applying abroad are those aiming for top colleges in countries like the UK, but a chunk of aspirants are those who could not manage a seat in a government medical college. Private medical colleges are sometimes so expensive that students prefer to study in China, Russia and more recently in countries like Nepal and Bangladesh,” says Dr Jayashree Mehta, former president of the Medical Council of India.
These students usually pick institutes and countries recognised by India so that, on their return, they can clear an eligibility test and begin practising. “A lot of the colleges that students opt for in Asia have ties with Indian institutions. Hence, these places also prepare the students for the eligibility test back home,” says Dr KK Agarwal, president of Heart Care Foundation of India and former president of the Indian Medical Association.
MED STUDENTS HEADED OVERSEAS
Here are the number of certificates of eligibility granted by the Medical Council of India to Indian students wishing to study medicine abroad
March 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016: 3,398
2016- 2017: 8,737
2017- 2018: 14,118
January 2018 to December 2018: 17,504
For Dr Abdul Mateen, who studied medicine in the Philippines in 2011, it was just a cheaper option than a private medical school in India. “Also, the spectrum of disease there, unlike in Russia, is very similar to the spectrum of disease in India,” he says.
Agarwal points out that, as the number of medical colleges in neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh grows, the number of students applying to study medicine there will likely rise too.
“With the kind of technology and connectivity we have now, there’s little difference between moving cities within India and moving to a neighbouring country like Bangladesh to study,” Dr Agarwal says. “Moreover, there are employment opportunities in these countries too.”
For students studying in the growing number of IB schools, applying abroad is often the simpler and surer path.
“To be eligible to study medicine in India, a student needs to have a combination of physics, chemistry and biology. IB students cannot take more than two science subjects, except with special permission,” says Kimberly Wright Dixit, president of study-abroad consultancy Red Pen.
A student must apply to the Board saying they’d like to study an extra Science subject, or do a non-regular diploma, if they want to qualify for India’s medical entrance exam. “For many students, this is a daunting, time-consuming and uncertain prospect; it’s easier to just apply abroad,” Dixit says.
Raashi Shah, a Class 12 student at the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, for instance, has applied only to medical colleges in the UK. “The special permission from the Board can take a lot of time. Then you have to study an extra subject, and you may end up not qualifying anyway, because you didn’t score well enough,” she says.
Given the steep competition and limited seats, many students feel it is better to focus on the board results, whether SSC, ICSE, IB or other, because to study abroad, your Board results count for a lot, Dixit adds.
For the rest, Dr Mehta points out that the only way to arrest the trend is to have more affordable medical colleges in India. “That way students from all sections of society can study medicine,” she says.
Steep fees in private medical colleges, limited seats in govt ones, and the increase in IB schools are some of the factors responsible.
EDUCATION Updated: Feb 13, 2019 15:12 IST
Dipanjan Sinha
Dipanjan Sinha
Hindustan Times
The number of students applying for admission to medical courses abroad is high, and rising steeply. A response to a recent Right to Information (or RTI) application stated that the Medical Council of India (MCI) has issued 3,386 more eligibility certificates to foreign medical aspirants in 2018 than in 2017, a rise of about 24%. The year before, the number had nearly doubled.
The mandate of getting an eligibility certificate to study medicine abroad came into force only from January 2014 and ever since the numbers have been rising sharply every year.
“One set of students applying abroad are those aiming for top colleges in countries like the UK, but a chunk of aspirants are those who could not manage a seat in a government medical college. Private medical colleges are sometimes so expensive that students prefer to study in China, Russia and more recently in countries like Nepal and Bangladesh,” says Dr Jayashree Mehta, former president of the Medical Council of India.
These students usually pick institutes and countries recognised by India so that, on their return, they can clear an eligibility test and begin practising. “A lot of the colleges that students opt for in Asia have ties with Indian institutions. Hence, these places also prepare the students for the eligibility test back home,” says Dr KK Agarwal, president of Heart Care Foundation of India and former president of the Indian Medical Association.
MED STUDENTS HEADED OVERSEAS
Here are the number of certificates of eligibility granted by the Medical Council of India to Indian students wishing to study medicine abroad
March 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016: 3,398
2016- 2017: 8,737
2017- 2018: 14,118
January 2018 to December 2018: 17,504
For Dr Abdul Mateen, who studied medicine in the Philippines in 2011, it was just a cheaper option than a private medical school in India. “Also, the spectrum of disease there, unlike in Russia, is very similar to the spectrum of disease in India,” he says.
Agarwal points out that, as the number of medical colleges in neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh grows, the number of students applying to study medicine there will likely rise too.
“With the kind of technology and connectivity we have now, there’s little difference between moving cities within India and moving to a neighbouring country like Bangladesh to study,” Dr Agarwal says. “Moreover, there are employment opportunities in these countries too.”
For students studying in the growing number of IB schools, applying abroad is often the simpler and surer path.
“To be eligible to study medicine in India, a student needs to have a combination of physics, chemistry and biology. IB students cannot take more than two science subjects, except with special permission,” says Kimberly Wright Dixit, president of study-abroad consultancy Red Pen.
A student must apply to the Board saying they’d like to study an extra Science subject, or do a non-regular diploma, if they want to qualify for India’s medical entrance exam. “For many students, this is a daunting, time-consuming and uncertain prospect; it’s easier to just apply abroad,” Dixit says.
Raashi Shah, a Class 12 student at the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, for instance, has applied only to medical colleges in the UK. “The special permission from the Board can take a lot of time. Then you have to study an extra subject, and you may end up not qualifying anyway, because you didn’t score well enough,” she says.
Given the steep competition and limited seats, many students feel it is better to focus on the board results, whether SSC, ICSE, IB or other, because to study abroad, your Board results count for a lot, Dixit adds.
For the rest, Dr Mehta points out that the only way to arrest the trend is to have more affordable medical colleges in India. “That way students from all sections of society can study medicine,” she says.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
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New MBBS syllabus offers AYUSH as option
The new syllabus received final approval from the BoG last month and will be implemented from August, when the new academic session (2019-20) begins.
The new syllabus received final approval from the BoG last month and will be implemented from August, when the new academic session (2019-20) begins.
The 3-month module will be designed by Ayush ministry
New Delhi
Undergraduate medical students will be given the option of choosing Ayush from 2019-20 academic year.
EDUCATION Updated: Feb 16, 2019 07:37 IST
New Delhi
Undergraduate medical students will be given the option of choosing Ayush from 2019-20 academic year.
Photo by Deepak Sansta / Hindustan Times(HT Photo)
Undergraduate medical students will be given the option of choosing Ayush (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) systems as an elective subject from the 2019-20 academic year, a top functionary of the board of governors that oversees medical colleges said. The initiative is aimed at introducing future doctors to alternative systems of medicine,
The government had in September 2018 dissolved the Medical Council of India and constituted the board of governors (BoG) to supersede the medical regulator. The new syllabus received final approval from the BoG last month and will be implemented from August, when the new academic session (2019-20) begins. The 3-month module will be designed by Ayush ministry.
“It is to give a hang of the alternative systems of medicine to the students of allopathy. Ayush systems can play a great role in promoting preventive health. However, it will not be mandatory for medical students,” said Dr V K Paul, chairman, BoG. “The students will get to visit Ayush hospitals, attend outpatient departments (OPDs), etc,” he added.
Undergraduate medical students will be given the option of choosing Ayush (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) systems as an elective subject from the 2019-20 academic year, a top functionary of the board of governors that oversees medical colleges said. The initiative is aimed at introducing future doctors to alternative systems of medicine,
The government had in September 2018 dissolved the Medical Council of India and constituted the board of governors (BoG) to supersede the medical regulator. The new syllabus received final approval from the BoG last month and will be implemented from August, when the new academic session (2019-20) begins. The 3-month module will be designed by Ayush ministry.
“It is to give a hang of the alternative systems of medicine to the students of allopathy. Ayush systems can play a great role in promoting preventive health. However, it will not be mandatory for medical students,” said Dr V K Paul, chairman, BoG. “The students will get to visit Ayush hospitals, attend outpatient departments (OPDs), etc,” he added.
TN govt colleges may get 345 more MBBS seats this year
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:16.02.2019
In an attempt to increase the number of undergraduate medical seats in the state, both the government and private institutions together have applied for at least 950 more MBBS seats for 2019. This includes at least 345 seats in public institutions.
The directorate of medical education has submitted its final compliance report after two rounds of inspections and is expecting the letter of permission from the Centre to start a government medical college in Karur in 2019 offering 150 medical seats. “With this, the total number of government medical colleges in the state will be 23. Our state has one of the maximum numbers of medical colleges in the government sector. In the coming years, we will increase the seats in existing colleges to at least 250 and open new colleges in all districts,” said the director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.
This year, the state has applied for 95 more seats at Madurai Government Medical College and 100 at Tirunelveli Government Medical College. The inspectors had earlier asked administrators of the Madurai college to rectify certain infrastructure inadequacies. “We have submitted the compliance report for that. There were no inadequacies reported in Tirunelveli,” he said.
In addition to government colleges, at least four private colleges that are planning at least 150 seats each have asked the state for essentiality certificates — a mandatory certificate to be handed over to the Centre. The list includes medical colleges backed by Lok Sabha deputy speaker M Thambi Durai and DMK former minister S Jagathrakshakan.
Educationists and activists said the state should enforce stringent laws to permit them to take over administration when the management announced the closure. “Every year, students from private colleges move the court seeking transfer to government colleges if the management decides not to continue the course,” said Dr R Kamaraj, a parent of a student in a private medical college.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:16.02.2019
In an attempt to increase the number of undergraduate medical seats in the state, both the government and private institutions together have applied for at least 950 more MBBS seats for 2019. This includes at least 345 seats in public institutions.
The directorate of medical education has submitted its final compliance report after two rounds of inspections and is expecting the letter of permission from the Centre to start a government medical college in Karur in 2019 offering 150 medical seats. “With this, the total number of government medical colleges in the state will be 23. Our state has one of the maximum numbers of medical colleges in the government sector. In the coming years, we will increase the seats in existing colleges to at least 250 and open new colleges in all districts,” said the director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.
This year, the state has applied for 95 more seats at Madurai Government Medical College and 100 at Tirunelveli Government Medical College. The inspectors had earlier asked administrators of the Madurai college to rectify certain infrastructure inadequacies. “We have submitted the compliance report for that. There were no inadequacies reported in Tirunelveli,” he said.
In addition to government colleges, at least four private colleges that are planning at least 150 seats each have asked the state for essentiality certificates — a mandatory certificate to be handed over to the Centre. The list includes medical colleges backed by Lok Sabha deputy speaker M Thambi Durai and DMK former minister S Jagathrakshakan.
Educationists and activists said the state should enforce stringent laws to permit them to take over administration when the management announced the closure. “Every year, students from private colleges move the court seeking transfer to government colleges if the management decides not to continue the course,” said Dr R Kamaraj, a parent of a student in a private medical college.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Apply for 150 seats before eyeing 250, MCI tells MGM
TNN | Feb 8, 2019, 12.15 AM IST
Indore: Increasing under graduate seats to 250 seems like a distant dream for MGM Medical College. After college administration applied for increasing UG seats from 140 to 250 for academic session 2019-20, Medical Council of India (MCI) has directed college to first get permission for 150 seats.
The college had applied to MCI for increasing their UG seats to 150 from 140 for which MCI had conducted inspection in college four times. Every time the council got some loopholes in the standards and documentation and rejected the application.
According to college officials, in last five years, college have spent around Rs 15 lakh as application fee for inspection is Rs 3 lakh. The college applied for increase in UG seats in 2014.
Physiology department professor Dr Manohar Bhandari said, “The MCI had earlier rejected permission due to small library in college. We have footfall of 300 students a month and 100 students a day. MCI has directed us to construct a bigger library for which construction is going on behind college building.”
Three months ago, college had applied to increase UG seats to 250 from upcoming academic session. However, MCI have directed that first it will conduct inspection for 150 seats. Once college gets permission for 150 seats, the college will have to apply for 250.
MGM dean Dr Jyoti Bindal said, “We had applied for more seats. However, MCI will first give permission for 150 seats and later for 250. We are following MCI directions. It will conduct inspection for 150 seats for the sixth time next week.”
TNN | Feb 8, 2019, 12.15 AM IST
Indore: Increasing under graduate seats to 250 seems like a distant dream for MGM Medical College. After college administration applied for increasing UG seats from 140 to 250 for academic session 2019-20, Medical Council of India (MCI) has directed college to first get permission for 150 seats.
The college had applied to MCI for increasing their UG seats to 150 from 140 for which MCI had conducted inspection in college four times. Every time the council got some loopholes in the standards and documentation and rejected the application.
According to college officials, in last five years, college have spent around Rs 15 lakh as application fee for inspection is Rs 3 lakh. The college applied for increase in UG seats in 2014.
Physiology department professor Dr Manohar Bhandari said, “The MCI had earlier rejected permission due to small library in college. We have footfall of 300 students a month and 100 students a day. MCI has directed us to construct a bigger library for which construction is going on behind college building.”
Three months ago, college had applied to increase UG seats to 250 from upcoming academic session. However, MCI have directed that first it will conduct inspection for 150 seats. Once college gets permission for 150 seats, the college will have to apply for 250.
MGM dean Dr Jyoti Bindal said, “We had applied for more seats. However, MCI will first give permission for 150 seats and later for 250. We are following MCI directions. It will conduct inspection for 150 seats for the sixth time next week.”
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Centre allows 56 med PG seats for TN
THE Union Health Ministry has so far, sanctioned additional 56 postgraduate medical seats to the State Health department for the 2019-2020 academic year.
According to a health department official, “We had applied for approval of 157 seats, among them, 56 seats have been sanctioned so far. We have also asked for conversion of 393 diploma seats to PG seats this academic year and the approval is awaited for the same. We started receiving the seats from the last three months. Yesterday, we received four seats,” the official said on Monday.
“The State is also awaiting sanction of additional 354 MBBS seats. We have asked for additional 150 MBBS seats for Karur Medical College, 95 seats for Madurai Medical College. With these figures, the MBBS seats will go up from 150 to 250. We have also asked for 100 seats for Tirunelveli Medical College,” the official added. The sanctioned 56 PG medical seats are: six seats in Community Medicine (MD) for Madras Medical College, Chennai, and four seats for Madurai Medical College. With this, seats in Community Medicine in Madras Medical College increased from four to ten.
The ministry sanctioned eight seats in General Medicine (MD) for Government Theni Medical College. Also Kanyakumari Medical College got four seats in Paediatric Medicine (MD). Madurai Medical College got approval for four seats in Respiratory Medicine (MD). Government Dharmapuri Medical College got eight seats in General Surgery (MS). Government Villupuram Medical College got eight seats in Anaesthesia (MD). Kilpauk Medical College got two seats in Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy (MD DVL), two seats in Ophthalmology (MS) and two seats in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (MD). Also, Thoothukudi Medical College got approval for eight seats in Anaesthesia (MD), the official added. “We will get approval for MBBS seats and pending PG seats for this academic year. We are positive about it,” said an official from the Directorate of Medical Education.
The State is also awaiting sanction of additional 354 MBBS seats. We have asked for additional 150 MBBS seats for Karur Medical College, 95 seats for Madurai Medical College
A Health Department official
The State is also awaiting sanction of additional 354 MBBS seats. We have asked for additional 150 MBBS seats for Karur Medical College, 95 seats for Madurai Medical College
A Health Department official
Sunday, February 10, 2019
CBI probe into UP MBBS admission scam likely
Sat, Feb 9 2019 06:48:21 PM
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS): The government has decided to refer the UPCMET-2015 MBBS admission scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for investigation.
Amit Biswas, Under Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in a letter on February 8 to petitioner Surender Singh Hooda, said "the matter has been referred to the CBI for further investigation."
Hooda, an investigative journalist, had filed the petition seeking a CBI probe into the alleged corruption in the UP Unaided Medical Colleges' Welfare Association that conducted the UPCMET-2015.
Hooda in 2015 conducted a sting operation at K.D. Medical College in Mathura, UP. It exposed the holes in the admission process in private medical colleges.
With both the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI) not forwarding the case to the CBI, Hooda in 2016 filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court.
Last year, Hooda made fresh representations to the MCI Board of Governors with more evidences. After analysing it, the MCI referred it to Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, stating the issue "requires in-depth investigation by multiple agencies, which is out of the purview of the Council, therefore, it is recommended that this matter may be handed over to appropriate investigation agency."
The MCI's letter to the Ministry also noted that there were discrepancies in the MBBS admissions made by four medical colleges.
"Truth will be revealed and those who deprived almost 1,900 genuine students aspiring to get an MBBS seat in private medical colleges of UP in the academic year 2015-2016 must be punished for their unethical and illegal act," Hooda said.
Sat, Feb 9 2019 06:48:21 PM
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS): The government has decided to refer the UPCMET-2015 MBBS admission scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for investigation.
Amit Biswas, Under Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in a letter on February 8 to petitioner Surender Singh Hooda, said "the matter has been referred to the CBI for further investigation."
Hooda, an investigative journalist, had filed the petition seeking a CBI probe into the alleged corruption in the UP Unaided Medical Colleges' Welfare Association that conducted the UPCMET-2015.
Hooda in 2015 conducted a sting operation at K.D. Medical College in Mathura, UP. It exposed the holes in the admission process in private medical colleges.
With both the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI) not forwarding the case to the CBI, Hooda in 2016 filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court.
Last year, Hooda made fresh representations to the MCI Board of Governors with more evidences. After analysing it, the MCI referred it to Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, stating the issue "requires in-depth investigation by multiple agencies, which is out of the purview of the Council, therefore, it is recommended that this matter may be handed over to appropriate investigation agency."
The MCI's letter to the Ministry also noted that there were discrepancies in the MBBS admissions made by four medical colleges.
"Truth will be revealed and those who deprived almost 1,900 genuine students aspiring to get an MBBS seat in private medical colleges of UP in the academic year 2015-2016 must be punished for their unethical and illegal act," Hooda said.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
393 post-graduate medical diplomas may become degrees
TNN | Jan 26, 2019, 09.06 AM IST
CHENNAI: At least 393 post-graduate diploma seats in gynaecology, dermatology and orthopaedics in TN may be converted into degree courses for the 2019-20 academic year if the Union health ministry gives its nod.
Health secretary J Radhakrishnan wrote to the Centre regarding conversion of all diploma courses in 14 specialties across six state-run medical colleges. The Medical Council of India had asked all medical colleges to surrender diploma seats for conversion to degree seats. In July 2018, the Centre issued notices seeking applications along with an undertaking from medical colleges for increasing PG degree seats.
On January 25, Tamil Nadu sent applications to the Union health secretary for conversion of 214 diploma seats in Madras Medical College, 52 in Stanley Medical College, 14 in Kilpauk Medical College, 79 in Madurai medical College, 23 in Thanjavur Medical College and 11 in Coimbatore Medical College in 2019-20. “Our aim is to double the number of PG seats in the next 2-3 years. Upcoming multispecialty hospitals in cities like Madurai will also fetch us more PG seats,” said Radhakrishnan.
This year, Tamil Nadu has been allowed to add 56 PG degrees in eight colleges taking the total number of seats in 2019 to at least 1,306. The directorate of medical education is expecting at least 100 more seats within a week that would take the total number to at least 1,800. The first round of counselling for the All India quota is expected to begin in March before which the MCI will announce the number of seats approved. The state has announced that by 2020 all colleges with at least one batch of MBBS students will start PG. By May 2019, the state expects at least 240 more seats in super specialty courses .
TNN | Jan 26, 2019, 09.06 AM IST
CHENNAI: At least 393 post-graduate diploma seats in gynaecology, dermatology and orthopaedics in TN may be converted into degree courses for the 2019-20 academic year if the Union health ministry gives its nod.
Health secretary J Radhakrishnan wrote to the Centre regarding conversion of all diploma courses in 14 specialties across six state-run medical colleges. The Medical Council of India had asked all medical colleges to surrender diploma seats for conversion to degree seats. In July 2018, the Centre issued notices seeking applications along with an undertaking from medical colleges for increasing PG degree seats.
On January 25, Tamil Nadu sent applications to the Union health secretary for conversion of 214 diploma seats in Madras Medical College, 52 in Stanley Medical College, 14 in Kilpauk Medical College, 79 in Madurai medical College, 23 in Thanjavur Medical College and 11 in Coimbatore Medical College in 2019-20. “Our aim is to double the number of PG seats in the next 2-3 years. Upcoming multispecialty hospitals in cities like Madurai will also fetch us more PG seats,” said Radhakrishnan.
This year, Tamil Nadu has been allowed to add 56 PG degrees in eight colleges taking the total number of seats in 2019 to at least 1,306. The directorate of medical education is expecting at least 100 more seats within a week that would take the total number to at least 1,800. The first round of counselling for the All India quota is expected to begin in March before which the MCI will announce the number of seats approved. The state has announced that by 2020 all colleges with at least one batch of MBBS students will start PG. By May 2019, the state expects at least 240 more seats in super specialty courses .
Friday, February 8, 2019
Medical, dental students to oppose fee hike
TNN | Feb 7, 2019, 12.50 AM IST
BENGALURU: Hundreds of students from government medical and dental colleges in the state will arrive in the city on Saturday (February 9) to participate in a convention to discuss their opposition to implementation of NRI quota in government colleges and exorbitant fee hike for medical and dental courses.
The Medical Students Convention is being organised by the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) along with Medical Students Struggle Committee and Dental Students Struggle Committee. It will be held at KGS Club in Cubbon Park (opposite MS Building) from 10.30am.
Sithara HM, district vice-president, AIDSO, said for one and a half months now, medical and dental students have been on the streets opposing the government proposal on introducing NRI quota in medical colleges and fee hike for undergraduate (300%) and postgraduate (800%) courses. “Students can’t be a source of funds for the government. NRI quota, which reduces merit seats, is illegal,” said Sithara.
NJ Sachin from Government Dental College, Bengaluru, said in the last academic year, he had paid a fee of Rs 17,000. “This year, we have paid Rs 50,000 as the college has jacked up the fee in the name of infrastructure and development. Many poor students may have to discontinue studies,” he added.
Kiran Kumar Pattar, from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, said there has been no notification from Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) on the fee hike. “But the course fee has gone up from Rs 17,500 to Rs 65,000, a fivefold jump,” he added.
TNN | Feb 7, 2019, 12.50 AM IST
BENGALURU: Hundreds of students from government medical and dental colleges in the state will arrive in the city on Saturday (February 9) to participate in a convention to discuss their opposition to implementation of NRI quota in government colleges and exorbitant fee hike for medical and dental courses.
The Medical Students Convention is being organised by the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) along with Medical Students Struggle Committee and Dental Students Struggle Committee. It will be held at KGS Club in Cubbon Park (opposite MS Building) from 10.30am.
Sithara HM, district vice-president, AIDSO, said for one and a half months now, medical and dental students have been on the streets opposing the government proposal on introducing NRI quota in medical colleges and fee hike for undergraduate (300%) and postgraduate (800%) courses. “Students can’t be a source of funds for the government. NRI quota, which reduces merit seats, is illegal,” said Sithara.
NJ Sachin from Government Dental College, Bengaluru, said in the last academic year, he had paid a fee of Rs 17,000. “This year, we have paid Rs 50,000 as the college has jacked up the fee in the name of infrastructure and development. Many poor students may have to discontinue studies,” he added.
Kiran Kumar Pattar, from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, said there has been no notification from Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) on the fee hike. “But the course fee has gone up from Rs 17,500 to Rs 65,000, a fivefold jump,” he added.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Medical Council of India moots mandatory stipends for intern doctors
TNN | Feb 6, 2019, 05.29 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Thousands of MBBS students working as interns in private medical colleges could gain with the board of governors of the Medical Council of India issuing a public notice proposing to make it compulsory for such colleges to pay stipends at par with what is paid by state or central governments. Interns in most private medical colleges are forced to work for free or paid paltry salaries.
The public notice, issued by the board of governors last week, stated that it was considering amending the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 to include a provision to this effect. It sought comments and suggestions on the amendment within 15 days.
The MCI had received complaints from various states on non-payment of stipends in private medical colleges for several years. In May 2016, the state medical council in Kerala had received a complaint which it forwarded to the MCI in January 2017 stating that the issue was not under its purview.
Private colleges in Kerala were found to pay less than Rs 4,000 per month as stipend. This was even after the state government ordered an increase in stipend from Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for all interns in government, private and self-financing medical colleges in June 2015.
In the meantime, interns from Karnataka too complained to the MCI. A private college in Karnataka with 150 seats would save Rs 3.6 crore per year from not paying stipends since the state government mandated rate is Rs 20,000 per month. However, the MCI decided in its executive committee meeting held in September 2017 that the issue was beyond its purview as the graduate medical education (GME) regulations do not provide for payment of stipend to interns. This was despite a recommendation from the MCI academic committee in favour of the interns.
The MCI’s post graduate medical education (PGME) regulation has a clause stipulating that post-graduate students will be paid the same stipend as in state government-owned institutions. No such clause exists in the GME regulations. However, MCI has in the past amended rules where it felt the need. In one such instance, it changed the Code of Ethics Regulations 2002 in February 2014 to take away its own power to regulate doctors' associations, thus allowing them to take money as sponsorship from pharma companies.
Yet, despite several complaints from hapless MBBS interns from various states, the council did not change the GME regulations to make payment of stipend to them mandatory. Following this decision, the Indian Medical Association too had written to the MCI supporting the interns.
TNN | Feb 6, 2019, 05.29 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Thousands of MBBS students working as interns in private medical colleges could gain with the board of governors of the Medical Council of India issuing a public notice proposing to make it compulsory for such colleges to pay stipends at par with what is paid by state or central governments. Interns in most private medical colleges are forced to work for free or paid paltry salaries.
The public notice, issued by the board of governors last week, stated that it was considering amending the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 to include a provision to this effect. It sought comments and suggestions on the amendment within 15 days.
The MCI had received complaints from various states on non-payment of stipends in private medical colleges for several years. In May 2016, the state medical council in Kerala had received a complaint which it forwarded to the MCI in January 2017 stating that the issue was not under its purview.
Private colleges in Kerala were found to pay less than Rs 4,000 per month as stipend. This was even after the state government ordered an increase in stipend from Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for all interns in government, private and self-financing medical colleges in June 2015.
In the meantime, interns from Karnataka too complained to the MCI. A private college in Karnataka with 150 seats would save Rs 3.6 crore per year from not paying stipends since the state government mandated rate is Rs 20,000 per month. However, the MCI decided in its executive committee meeting held in September 2017 that the issue was beyond its purview as the graduate medical education (GME) regulations do not provide for payment of stipend to interns. This was despite a recommendation from the MCI academic committee in favour of the interns.
The MCI’s post graduate medical education (PGME) regulation has a clause stipulating that post-graduate students will be paid the same stipend as in state government-owned institutions. No such clause exists in the GME regulations. However, MCI has in the past amended rules where it felt the need. In one such instance, it changed the Code of Ethics Regulations 2002 in February 2014 to take away its own power to regulate doctors' associations, thus allowing them to take money as sponsorship from pharma companies.
Yet, despite several complaints from hapless MBBS interns from various states, the council did not change the GME regulations to make payment of stipend to them mandatory. Following this decision, the Indian Medical Association too had written to the MCI supporting the interns.
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