Interview must for MBBS PG aspirants
HYDERABAD: MBBS graduates opting for post graduate courses under management quota will have to clear an interview from this academic year.
A government order issued by the state health department on Monday said weightage of 15% marks would be allotted to interviews while preparing the merit list "to assess the candidate's character, motivation and suitability for the medical profession and studies."
Similar would be the case with post graduate students opting for super specialty courses under management quota. The final merit list of candidates will be prepared on the basis of the individual's cumulative performance in the Post Graduate (MD/MS) university examination, which will carry 85% weightage, and the marks obtained in the interview.
The total marks would be displayed on notice boards of colleges and their respective websites and would also be sent to the Dr N T R University of Health Sciences for approval. The colleges should admit the candidates strictly in the order of merit shown in the approved merit list, the GO said.
Meanwhile, the fee structure for UG and PG courses in medical and dental streams would remain unchanged this academic year.
Postgraduate medical admissions to begin from tomorrow-Gujarat
AHMEDABAD: Admission to the postgraduate (PG) medical courses will begin on July 3. The forms can be downloaded from the website of the medical committee of BJ Medical College. The admission to the PG courses will be based only on the NEET examination conducted in 2013.
The Admission Committee for Professional Medical Educational Courses has stated that students seeking admission to the 650 PG seats will have to come in person to the dean of Sola Medical College and submit the form. The form has to be accompanied with a demand draft of Rs 1,000.
The committee stated that admission will be subject to the rules and regulation of the state government and also to the outcome of the ongoing litigation in the Gujarat high court. Several students have questioned the state government's decision to give admission to PG medical courses on the basis of NEET. The court made it clear that even if counseling takes place, it would also be subject to the final outcome of this petition.
Earlier Gujarat University (GU) had decided to form its own admission committee, but following the state government notification for a common merit list, the GU has still not formed the committee.
State fails to meet MCI-mandated teacher-student ratio for postgraduation courses
Despite there being an acute shortage of doctors with specialisations, 47 postgraduate degree and diploma seats in the state will remain vacant this year because there aren’t enough teachers to tutor them.
This year, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has sanctioned 1,442 postgraduate (1,143 degree and 299 diploma) seats for Maharashtra, including seats in medical colleges run by the state, civic body or the Centre. Of these, only 1,395 (1,115 degree and 280 diploma) seats will be filled.
dna has learned that of the 47 seats that will go vacant this year, 45 are in state-run medical colleges. This is because the Directorate of Medical Education and Research — which conducts PG admissions — has not included these seats in the admission process.
On the other hand, all 56 seats will be filled in the four Centre-run institutes — Tata Memorial Hospital, ESIC Hospital (Andheri), ESIS Hospital (Parel) and AIIPMER Hospital (Haji Ali). Even at the three medical colleges run by the civic body — Sion hospital, Nair hospital and KEM hospital — 436 PG degree seats (two less than sanctioned) and all 105 diploma seats will be filled. This means that patients going to hospitals run by the state will continue to suffer.
“The shortage of seats in government institutes will help private colleges to flourish, but this hampers the prospects of a deserving candidate coming from a humble background,” said a PG aspirant.
According to the rules put down by the MCI, there should be one teacher to every postgraduate or diploma student. As of now, there are approximately 1,000 medical teachers in the state. A professor at Grant Medical College said, “We have 16 PG seats in the medicine department but only 12 candidates can be admitted, unless we find four more teachers.”
However, Dr Pravin Shingare, the head of DMER, downplayed the issue. “We have enough teachers in our colleges. A year ago, we filled 351 teaching posts. There could be only three to four seats that will go vacant because of a shortage of teachers.”
Admission into postgraduate courses has currently been stalled as per an interim order passed by the Bombay high court.
HYDERABAD: MBBS graduates opting for post graduate courses under management quota will have to clear an interview from this academic year.
