MCI

When Indian government is applying various reforms in education sector for the development of education, medical education is also not an exception. The Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed an idea to create a new apex body. The primary purpose behind setting up such body is to improve and develop medical education in India.

A U-turn by India’s apex medical education regulator over the issue of solving the problem of the absence of doctors in villages has raised concerns and voices among the sections of India’s medical community itself. The U-turn by the MCI where it pledges support to a government plan to create rural healthcare providers is baffling many experts and community members alike.  

It is an irony that despite housing almost 14% of the world’s total number of medical colleges, rural areas in India are left without even the basic healthcare facilities. As many as 300 medical colleges dot the country, producing approximately 23,000 doctors annually. Yet, the rural population of the country has to go to the nearby city for even minor ailments like cough and cold.

The health ministry is reported to have expedited its efforts for setting up National Council for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) as reported earlier here.

The Union Ministry of Health is planning an overarching regulatory body to train doctors and paramedics. It has constituted a task force that will meet tomorrow to present the action plan and concept for the body termed as the National Council for Human Resources in Health Sector (NCHRH).
 
The taskforce includes some well-known names like Dr. Devi Shetty, Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhary , Dr K S Reddy, etc.

The Medical Council of India’s (MCI) recommendation for common entrance test (National CET) for the MBBS seats in all the colleges across the nation is not a new idea. The Supreme Court had propounded the concept of "admissions based on inter se merit" in PA Inamdar case four years ago. 

There is good news for those students who are aspiring for medical career but left out in the counseling in Karnataka. They now can bank on the next round of counseling to try their luck. 

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the standards of the deemed universities, a high-level committee headed by noted educationist Prof. Yash Pal that had been set up to restructure higher education in the country, has recommended that education regulatory bodies  like the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Medical Council of India.

With the Director of Medical Education giving approval to establish three more medical and a dental college in Gujarat, the state is set to have 635 more seats, 500 medical and 135 dental. The chapter of Medical Council of India (MCI) had proposed the new medical colleges. 

 A dental college, styled as the Faculty of Dentistry, is coming up in Jamia Milia Islamia. The faculty, the ninth department in the university, offers cutting edge degree courses in the field of dentistry.