Will a shorter medical course address the problem of doctor shortage in rural areas?
1 year, 6 months ago

Will a shorter medical course address the problem of doctor shortage in rural areas?

The Hindu  

Last month, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked the Health Department to consider starting a three-year diploma course for medical practitioners, who would then serve in primary health centres. We tend to think that since there are not many doctors in rural areas, we could send in people who spend less years in training. Soham Bhaduri: There exists a general aversion among professional doctors to practice in rural areas. You don’t create an alternative cadre of doctors just because regular doctors don’t want to go to rural areas: that’s acknowledging that full-fledged doctor need not go to rural areas. It has shown great improvement not just in terms of redistributing medical colleges and having representation across provinces, but also in terms of rural retention, because much more than incentives, pecuniary or intangible, recruiting doctors from rural areas and placing them there is one of the evidence-based solutions to improve rural retention.

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