The validity of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS/postgraduate/dental and postgraduate courses has been questioned by several states and private institutions. Is medical education in a mess in India? Dr Arvind Gautam, chief co-ordinator, Sankalp Medicos Movement Association (SMMA), joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.
Q. Medical Education is a commercial mess and the business is not Good. How one justifies parents spending Lakhs of rupees for admission, without an assured job to pay back the investment? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. Yes, definitely their is a mess and we require more steps to sensitise the govt and society as a whole regarding the issue.we are working on it and things will improve gradually....
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05:44 PM, May 14, 2013
Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued notices to state Medical Education Minister Anoop Mishra, Gwalior Mayor Sameeksha Gupta and others in connection with a programme eulogising dacoits recently. The division bench of Justices SK Gangele and GD Saxena issued the notices on Wednesday on a contempt petition filed by an advocate Awdhesh Singh Bhadouria. ...
11:10 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Chandigarh: The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh has withheld for an indefinite period the result of the 7,300 candidates who appeared for its MD entrance examination on Saturday after the CBI took 14 people, including seven girls, on remand till November 15 to probe a racket in solving the exam paper. "The examination results have been withheld for an indefinite period. This is the...
02:38 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Puducherry: Expressing concern over the quality of medical education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said a "credible regulatory" mechanism should be put in place and a "serious look" given at the curriculum. "There is a perception of deteriorating quality. We cannot allow this situation to continue. We must put in place a credible regulatory and institutional mechanism to help develop standards in our medical education", he said in his...
11:20 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Puducherry: Expressing concern over the quality of medical education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said a "credible regulatory" mechanism should be put in place and a "serious look" given at the curriculum. "There is a perception of deteriorating quality. We cannot allow this situation to continue. We must put in place a credible regulatory and institutional mechanism to help develop standards in our medical education", he said in his...
11:44 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Puducherry: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry will release on June 1 the result of the entrance exam held at the all India level for selection of students to first MBBS course during 2012-2013 academic year in the institute. Seventy five per cent of the 40,000 candidates who had applied for the entrance test in various parts of the country simultaneously appeared for the test on...
03:43 PM, May 29, 2012
Lucknow: Free engineering and medical education would be given to girls in government colleges in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced on Thursday. He made the announcement while addressing an event on the 125th annual function of Isabella Thoburn College (IT) in Lucknow. Akhilesh also announced an assistance of Rs 1 crore for the new hostel building of the college and said the government will extend all possible help...
12:51 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Vice Chancellor of Guru Granth Sahib World University Dr Jasbeer Singh Ahluwalia was shot at by unidentified assailants on Monday. Ahluwalia was at Fatehgarh Sahib when the assailants opened fire. He was immediately taken to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in Chandigarh. Sources at PGIMER said that Ahluwalia was unconscious when he was brought to the hospital and had been admitted to the emergency...
05:31 PM, Aug 01, 2011
There are 310 dental colleges in the country out of which 250 are privately owned and only 60 are run by the government. ...
08:49 AM, Jul 16, 2010
The move hopes to avoid another scam like the one that had plagued medical education recently. ...
09:21 PM, Jun 29, 2010
An expert panel of eminent doctors will now take over the functioning of the MCI for now. ...
12:06 AM, May 16, 2010
The Union government looks at an independent commission to regulate medical education in India. ...
12:25 AM, May 15, 2010
The arrest of Ketan Desai, the man being touted as the don of the Medical Council of India, has thrown open a Pandora's box. ...
09:35 PM, May 05, 2010
Ketan Desai's arrest has brought in the open what everyone in the medical fraternity always suspected. ...
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