MCI move to allow MBBS students to visit patient wards

As part of the new curriculum forundergraduate medical students, the MedicalCouncil of India had decided to introduce a new kind of training or "clerkship" under which medicalstudents will be able to experience the feeling of being a real doctor.

Under the training, undergraduate medical students will be able to have ward visits, patient interaction as well as doing evening rounds from the second year of the MBBS course itself.

Medical students will be attached to resident doctors and would be able to accompany them during rounds of the hospital, helping managing patients and talking to them. This would helpundergraduate medical students in improving their communication skills and also help patients in coping better with their illnesses.

However, the undergraduate students will not be allowed to treat patients.

Member of MCI's governing body Dr. Sita Naik said that the current medical training is classroom oriented and boring and that the MCI is considering reviving a practice that had existed 20 years earlier wherein undergraduate students were assigned to wards.

The students were then able to help resident doctors with managing patients but not prescribing treatments.

Dr. Naik further added that the practice would give them early clinical exposure. "From the second year itself, students will be allowed to have access to wards and clinics and this would help them in feeling that they are a part of the clinical practice.

"Currently, students do not go to wards. They are instead taught anatomy and physiology in the classrooms. The practice of students assisting resident doctors was stopped in the last 20 years as medical training had become more classroom based." she said.

She further stated that this may have been because too many students were assigned to one resident doctor. The system will now be reintroduced by the MCI in order to make medical education more clinical and less classroom based.

The meeting to finalize the new undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum formedical courses will be held on March 29. The meeting will be chaired by unionhealth secretary K. Chandramouli and will be attended by to academicians as well as vice chancellors.

MCI says that at the end of undergraduate medical training after the new curriculum is implemented, students will be able to perform a complete and thorough physicalexamination of any organ system in the body and also perform basic clinical tasks.

source:http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/MCI_move_to_allow_MBBS_students_to_visit_patient_wards_13690/

Apex court nod for common MBBS entrance test

The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for implementing the Medical Council of India's (MCI) notification providing for a common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses leading to the award of MBBS degrees.

An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik, while giving the go ahead to the MCI, said that anyone aggrieved by thenotification can challenge it in court.

"If you (MCI) think you are independent and don't require any approval from the centre, then you can go ahead with its implementation and if you think you need approval from the government, then go to it (government)," the bench said.

The court further told the MCI that if it has already obtained the approval of the health ministry for issuing the notification providing for commonentrance test for undergraduate medical courses, then it could go ahead with its implementation.

The MCI on October 21, 2010 issued a notificationproviding for common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses all over the country. However, this notification was kept in abeyance in the face of stiff opposition by the Tamil Nadu government. 

The state government subsequently obtained a stay against the notification from the Madras High Court.

The apex court said that it could not continue hearing the matter. It said it will not say anything in the matter and if the apex body regulating medical education in the country thinks that it can implement its notification, then it can go ahead and do so.

source:http://indiaedunews.net/Medical/Apex_court_nod_for_common_MBBS_entrance_test_13651/

Entrance test for MBBS courses

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has invited applications for entrance examination to be held on June 1for admission to the MBBS course commencing from August 1. AIIMS is one of the most reputed institution functioning under the Government of India, providing quality medical education.

Those who have passed higher secondary/ 10 + 2/ equivalent examination with physics, chemistry, biology and English securing at least 60 per cent marks (50 per cent for SC/ ST applicants) taken together are eligible to apply.

Students who are appearing for Plus Two examination in 2011 can apply. Applicants should have attained 17 years as on December 31. Both online and offline application facilities are provided from February 15 onwards. Apply online through the web site www.aiimsexams.org before March 15 as per instructions given in the prospectus.

The prospectus-cum-application form can also be obtained by speed / registered post by sending a requisition letter along with a crossed bank draft for Rs.1,050 (Rs.850 for SC/ ST category) drawn in favour of the Accounts Officer (Exams), AIIMS-MBBS- 2011 to the Assistant Controller of Examinations, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110608 so as to reach the addressee on or before March 10. The last date for receipt of completed applications at the examination section of the AIIMS is March 15. For more details visit www.aiimsexams.org or www.aiims.edu.

source:http://www.hindu.com/edu/2011/02/15/stories/2011021550030100.htm

(Press Release) AIEEE and AFMC MBBS Exam : 2011

Press Release : AIEEE 2011 and AFMC MBBS Exam : 2011

Press Release:

The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) beinf conducted BY CBSE and AFMC.MBBS Entrance Examination being conducted by Armed Forces Medical Services have been scheduled on 1st May, 2011 all over India. There may be a few candidates, who are likely to appear in both the examinations. As mutually agreed by the authorities , the AIEEE will be conducted in the morning from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and AFMC will be conducted from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on the same day. If a candidate is allotted examination centre for AIEEE and AFMC at different cities, the CBSE will consider to change the examination center of such candidate where AFMC examination centre has been allotted subject to the availability of the seat and fixation of AIEEE examination center in the city on production of AFMC Entrance Examination Card. However that will be sole discretion of the CBSE not the claim of the candidate.

Click Here For Official Notification

Courtesy: cbse.nic.in

Nepal president to attend Chandigarh institute convocation

Chandigarh: Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav will be the chief guest at the 31st annual convocation of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here on Friday.

It would be a rare opportunity for Yadav, 62, to attend the convocation at his alma mater as the chief guest. He had done his post-graduation in internal medicine from the PGIMER in 1985.

Yadav did his MBBS from the Calcutta Medical College. He was sworn-in the first president of Nepal in July 2008. His elder son Chandra Mohan Yadav and daughter-in-law also have completed their post-graduation in radio diagnosis from PGIMER.

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will preside over the convocation function. Chandigarh Police have made elaborate security arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of this event.

However, patients will have a tough time as the PGIMER's operation theatre technical staff association went on strike for three days from Thursday.

Everyday around 300 surgeries are conducted at the PGIMER and this strike would severely affect the operations.

"The issue of increasing the salaries of operation theatre technicians is pending for the last many months. Therefore, we have decided to go on three-day mass casual leave. However, 10 technicians would be available for the emergency services," said Manoj Kumar, secretary of Operation Theatre Technical Staff Association. 

PGIMER officials have termed the strike as illegal.

"We have already forwarded this matter to the union health ministry so there is no point in going on strike. We would make alternate arrangements to avoid harassment to the public," a PGIMER official said. IANS

source:http://indiaedunews.net/Today/Nepal_president_to_attend_Chandigarh_institute_convocation_13458/

Education Loans in India

Till some years back higher education and quality education was not affordable to some illustrious students because of the financial constraints. There was no any alternative but to jump in the job market prematurely.

And this led to untimely end of budding talents and their forceful transformation into to the mediocrity.Scholarships were there, but those were so less in numbers that only luckier few could avail them. But now the scene has changed drastically.

The boom in the banking sector has led to release of large amount of funds for education loans. Now, education loans are easily available from various banks in India and this change is encouraging more and more students to take up higher education despite their financial shortcomings.

Many nationalized banks have come up with various educational loan schemes that students can benefit from.Even private banks are not lagging far behind. The wave of change could be well gauged from the amusing situation that immediately after the results announcements of CAT or PMT/ IIT JEE, the representatives of the banks queue up for giving education loans to the successful candidate even with very flexible conditions. This scenario is certainly helping the illustrious students to pursue higher education and realize their dreams. Here, we have tried to list the name of banks and the details about various educational loans provided by them.

Benefits of Taking Education Loans

The question which sometimes puzzles the mind of both aspiring students and parents is why one should opt for an education loan.

1. Financial support for professional courses such as MBA, BTech and MBBS

2. Avaliable for higher education in India and abroad

3. Easy repayment only after job placement

4. Affordable Interest Rates

5. Lesser burden on parents

6. Loan cover upto as much as 20 lac avaliable by various banks

7. Expenses such as tuition fees, travel expenses, hostel charges are included in education loan

 

SOURCE : http://www.indiaedu.com/education-loans-india/

AIIMS entrance examination for admission to the MBBS course

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi will invite applications for an entrance examination for admission to the MBBS course (commencing in August) during the middle of February. Admission notification may be expected during the second week of February, available also on www.aiims.edu or www.aiims.ac.in. Those who have passed Plus Two or equivalent examinations with physics, chemistry, biology or biotechnology and English securing minimum 60 per cent marks in aggregate in these subjects (50 per cent for those belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) or those appearing for the Plus Two examination in 2011 may apply. Online and offline application facilities will be provided.

source : http://www.hindu.com/edu/2011/02/01/stories/2011020150070200.htm