Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Compulsory 1yr rural posting for MBBS students from 2015-16- Minister of Health



As per the statement issued by minister of health and family welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad, MBBS students applying for admission to post-graduate medical courses from academic year 2015-16 will have to undertake a mandatory rural posting at a public health centre (PHC) for one year.

As per Azad, this comes after the proposal set by Medical Council of India (MCI) to amend the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000, in this regard has since been approved by the ministry of health and family welfare.

Azad said there is also a shortfall of 3,459 surgeons, 3,005 obstetricians and gynecologists, 3,667 physicians, 3,270 pediatricians and a total of 13,477 specialists in community health centres across the country as on March 31, 2012.

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