India needs 5 lakh medical specialists: NITI Aayog
6 years ago

India needs 5 lakh medical specialists: NITI Aayog

India Today  

In its 'Strategy for New India @75’ report, NITI Aayog has recommended that India needs around five lakh medical specialists. National Medical Commission Bill 2017 NITI Aayog has also suggested that the National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 should be introduced. "We should also deploy teachers from universities abroad as visiting professors at AIIMS or NIEs while linking at least 40 per cent of district hospitals with medical colleges,'' recommended NITI Aayog in its report. Workforce shortages and uneven distribution of doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals plagued the sector Updated curriculum for medical professions NITI Aayog has also suggested that we should also have an updated curriculum for medical and allied professions that keep pace with the changing dynamics of public health, policy, and demographics.

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Medical education in India is at a crossroads; here’s a road map
4 days, 21 hours ago

Medical education in India is at a crossroads; here’s a road map

The Hindu  

The Indian government replaced a system — the Medical Council of India, which was regulating medical education and practice for over eight decades — due to allegations of inefficiency and corruption. The past decade alone has seen a rapid increase in new medical colleges leading to increased MBBS seats from 64,464 to 1,15,812 seats and PG seats from 31,185 to …

Number Of Medical Colleges Nearly Doubles To 731 Since 2014, UG Seats Rise By 118%: JP Nadda
5 months, 1 week ago

Number Of Medical Colleges Nearly Doubles To 731 Since 2014, UG Seats Rise By 118%: JP Nadda

ABP News  

New Delhi: Highlighting the NDA government's efforts in bolstering India's health infrastructure, Union Health Minister JP Nadda announced in the Lok Sabha on Monday that the number of medical colleges in the country has surged from 387 in 2014 to 731. The number now stands at 731.” He further detailed that undergraduate medical seats have “increased from 51,348 to 1.12 …

Budget 2024: Kerala’s dream of AIIMS-like institution dashed again
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Budget 2024: Kerala’s dream of AIIMS-like institution dashed again

The Hindu  

Kerala’s much-anticipated and decades-long dream of having an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences -like institution on its soil was dashed yet again when the proposal found no mention in the Union Budget 2024-25 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23. It is only after 2012 that the Centre began setting up AIIMS-like institutions across the country, under …

Comprehensive India-specific approach needed for growth of medical education: Parliamentary panel
11 months ago

Comprehensive India-specific approach needed for growth of medical education: Parliamentary panel

The Hindu  

Bridging the widely varying quality of medical education across India; enhancing the number of under- and post-graduate medical seats; optimal use of existing infrastructure to expand medical education facilities; chalking out a comprehensive India-specific approach for the creation of seats for specialists; and streamlining the recruitment process to prevent “ghost faculty” in medical colleges — these are among the top …

National Medical Commission guidelines may stymie growth of medical education in Telangana
1 year, 3 months ago

National Medical Commission guidelines may stymie growth of medical education in Telangana

The Hindu  

The Telangana government recently inaugurated nine government medical colleges, pushing the State’s total count to 28. The NMC, through its ‘Undergraduate Medical Education Board’ notification released on August 16, has stipulated that “medical colleges shall follow the ratio of 100 MBBS seats for 10 lakh population in that State and Union Territory.” According to the 2011 census data, Telangana’s population …

NExT Examination For Medical Graduates: NMC To Finalise Framework And Dates Soon
1 year, 7 months ago

NExT Examination For Medical Graduates: NMC To Finalise Framework And Dates Soon

News 18  

India’s medical education regulator, National Medical Commission, is in the process of finalising the framework for the National Exit examination, a combined test for medical graduates. The draft regulations for NExT Exam were made available for public comments by the National Medical Commission in December 2022. The NExT exam was supposed to start within three years since the NMC came …

69% Rise In Medical Colleges Since 2014 In India; Know Top Choices
1 year, 9 months ago

69% Rise In Medical Colleges Since 2014 In India; Know Top Choices

News 18  

The Centre informed the Parliament last month that the number of medical colleges has increased by 69 per cent, from 387 before 2014 to 654 as of now. The MoS for Health told the house that 96,077 MBBS MBBS seats are available in the country out of which 51,712 are in government medical colleges and 44,365 are in private medical …

Health Ministry mulls introducing central recruitment at all AIIMS to address faculty shortage
1 year, 9 months ago

Health Ministry mulls introducing central recruitment at all AIIMS to address faculty shortage

The Hindu  

The Union Health Ministry is examining the possibility of introducing centralised recruitment for faculty and non-faculty at various AIIMS across India to address the shortage of personnel at these premier health institutes. "Following the Central Institute Body meeting held on January 8 at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, with a view to strengthen the process of recruitment of faculty and non-faculty in various …

No Dearth of Doctors, Bid to Create Non-MBBS Ones Will Backfire: IMA General Secy to News18
2 years ago

No Dearth of Doctors, Bid to Create Non-MBBS Ones Will Backfire: IMA General Secy to News18

News 18  

There is no shortage of doctors in India and the move to create non-MBBS ones will backfire on the government, Dr Jayesh Lele, general secretary of the Indian Medical Association, told News18.com. ‘Don’t blame pharma-doctor nexus, fix self-prescription’ Instead of blaming doctors for the pharma-doctor nexus, the central government should formulate strict rules to stop selling even a single pill …

Ahead of NEET Counselling: Best Raking AIIMS, as per NIRF
2 years, 3 months ago

Ahead of NEET Counselling: Best Raking AIIMS, as per NIRF

News 18  

The Medical Counselling Committee will soon conduct the counselling for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET UG 2022, for qualified candidates seeking admission to government medical and dental colleges for 15 per cent All India Quota seats and 100 per cent seats in deemed/central universities, ESIC/AFMS institutes, AIIMS and JIPMER. While different state authorities will announce the NEET UG …

India to get record number of doctors in next 10 years: PM Narendra Modi
2 years, 9 months ago

India to get record number of doctors in next 10 years: PM Narendra Modi

Live Mint  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the country will get a record number of doctors in the next 10 years due to the central government's policy of establishing at least one medical college in every district. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking after dedicating to the nation a 200-bed K K Patel Mutli-speciality Hospital in Bhuj in Gujarat via …

India on track to achieve WHO-recommended doctor-population ratio: NITI Aayog member
3 years, 5 months ago

India on track to achieve WHO-recommended doctor-population ratio: NITI Aayog member

India Today  

India is well on the path to achieving the World Health Organisation-recommended ratio of one doctor per thousand population by 2024 and is increasing the number of hospital beds from 11 lakh to 22 lakh, NITI Aayog member Vinod Paul said on Monday. "We have taken a lot of steps to address these problems in the last six-seven years, and …

EXPLAINED: What is NeXT For Aspiring Doctors In India And When They Have To Appear For The Test
3 years, 5 months ago

EXPLAINED: What is NeXT For Aspiring Doctors In India And When They Have To Appear For The Test

News 18  

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that due steps are being taken to roll out the maiden National Exit Test in the first half of 2023. In a statement on July 30, the Health Ministry said that while work is on as per the roadmap to hold NeXT in the first half of 2023, a “mock run” is also being …

Foreign medical graduates wait for internships in India to serve nation
3 years, 8 months ago

Foreign medical graduates wait for internships in India to serve nation

Hindustan Times  

As India faces an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases with more than three lakh being reported daily, more than 70,000 Foreign Medical Graduates look forward to getting themselves enrolled in internships amid the crisis. Already over 4,000 suggestions were sent by the Indian Foreign Medical Students Welfare MCI Gurukul Trust. However, on April 15, Indian Foreign Medical Students Welfare MCI …

NMC Asks Final Year Medical Students to Continue Working as 'Residents' Till New Batch Joins
3 years, 8 months ago

NMC Asks Final Year Medical Students to Continue Working as 'Residents' Till New Batch Joins

News 18  

To ensure there is no shortage of doctors to attend to the increasing number of patients in Indian hospitals and medical facilities, the National Medical Commission has asked the final year postgraduate students to continue working as ‘residents’ till the new batch of students arrives. The enrolment of the new batch of postgraduate students has been delayed this year as …

NEET 2021: Check List of Top Medical Colleges in India Based on NIRF
3 years, 10 months ago

NEET 2021: Check List of Top Medical Colleges in India Based on NIRF

News 18  

The Ministry of Education every year releases a list of educational institutions, including medical colleges, with their ranks based on National Institutional Ranking Framework from across the country. Among all the institutes, AIIMS Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, Christian Medical College Vellore and NIMHNS Bangalore are ranked in the top four colleges. Top 40 medical institutes/colleges ranked by NIRF: All India Institute …

MCI seeks registered doctors’ list from states
4 years, 8 months ago

MCI seeks registered doctors’ list from states

Hindustan Times  

The Medical Council of India, country’s apex medical education regulator, has written to its state councils asking them to prepare a list of all doctors registered with them -- part of an exercise aimed at taking stock of the number of doctors that be mustered to treat Covid-19 patients should the number of infections increase sharply. In a latter sent …

Will NMC bring transparency in the medical education system?
5 years, 5 months ago

Will NMC bring transparency in the medical education system?

Live Mint  

The medical education system in India is set to witness significant changes as the National Medical Commission Bill, 2019 heads for implementation. Seeking sweeping reforms to medical education, largely opposed by the medical fraternity, the bill attempts to set up a regulatory body called the National Medical Commission in place of the tainted Medical Council of India. The NMC will …

Cabinet approves bill for setting up of National Commission for Indian System of Medicine
6 years ago

Cabinet approves bill for setting up of National Commission for Indian System of Medicine

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the draft National Commission for Indian Systems of Medicine Bill, 2018, which seeks to replace the existing regulator, the Central Council for Indian Medicine, with a new body to ensure transparency and accountability, an official statement said. The draft bill provides for the constitution of a National Commission with four autonomous boards …

Young doctors must work in rural areas for at least 2-3 years: 6 takeaways from Vice President's address at 1st AIIMS convocation
6 years, 4 months ago

Young doctors must work in rural areas for at least 2-3 years: 6 takeaways from Vice President's address at 1st AIIMS convocation

India Today  

While addressing the first convocation of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on August 25, the Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu spoke about a lot of issues plaguing the Indian healthcare system. First convocation of AIIMS Honourable ministers present for the event : Ganeshi Lal: Governor of Odisha JP Nadda: Union Minister for Health and …

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