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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Workshop to discuss rural doctors’ cadre today by Aarti Dhar

Workshop to discuss rural doctors’ cadre today by Aarti Dhar

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published Published on Feb 3, 2010   modified Modified on Feb 3, 2010

Four-year course, including internship, proposed; it would be “institutional” in character 

The annual proposed intake for the course is 25 to 50 students

Medical Council of India plans to start the course in August

The proposed alternative model for under-graduate medical education to create a cadre of rural doctors will be discussed at a two-day workshop beginning here this Thursday.

The model, mooted by the Medical Council of India (MCI), is to tide over the shortage of trained manpower for rural health care. It envisages creation of manpower for health care services in the “notified rural areas”.

The four-year course including internship has been titled “Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery”. It will be “institutional” in character, conducted through medical schools which will be tagged with government hospitals in the districts where there are no medical colleges as of now.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Council president Ketan Desai said the proposal would be discussed threadbare with 19 Vice-Chancellors of Health Sciences and deemed universities, deans and principals of all medical colleges, State health secretaries and directors of medical education, in addition to the officers of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the workshop.

If approved, the MCI proposes to start the course in August. The National Rural Health Mission has a provision of Rs. 20 crore for one medical school in a district where no such facility exists, Mr. Desai said.

The annual proposed intake for the course is 25 to 50 students and the teaching will be modular in character at all levels.

The eligibility for admission will be class XII from “notified rural areas” of the district. Admission will be district-based and the services rendered by the graduates “State-based”.

The graduates will be registered by the State Medical Council concerned in a separate “schedule” created exclusively for the purpose.

The registration will be on a “year-to-year” basis for five years, renewable at the end of each year on an appropriate certification by the designated authority. Each medical school will be affiliated to an examining university which will confer a BRMS degree on students conforming to the disciplinary jurisdiction “Code of Medical Ethics” notified by the MCI.


The Hindu, 4 February, 2010, http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/04/stories/2010020461822000.htm
 

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