Indian medicos no longer need to pass the examination conducted by British government before they can practice on English land. This news provided some relief to Indian doctors, even to those who hasn't even considered this alternative. The change in British government's perspective towards Indian medicos is not the result of some improvement in nation's medical institutions, instead seems to be more driven by the increasing demand of doctors in
With the value of money overshadowing moral and human values, these youngsters are reluctant to take doctor as profession. Rather this is not the situation particularly in
Also the amount of study that goes into becoming a doctor vastly outweighs that goes in becoming an engineer. Where an engineer starts specialization right from the second year, a medical student has to study of all parts of body in pretty much detail spread over four years and gets to specialize only if he opts for post-graduation, again whose entrance is way too tough. With the new government order a medical student has to wait for two years (one for internship and one for Medical Officer-ship) before even attempting PG entrance. Thereafter, a doctor is expected to provide best services at reasonable price.
All said, don't you think we have put enough of burden of 'doing good' on these people. Agreed, that in this profession customer's(patient) stakes are distinctly high, and compromising on quality is something unthinkable of, but making these people's life easier and better will only ensure enough and persistent inflow of talented students into this profession.
Medical curriculum can be reformed on the lines of engineering course. Making first year (and if necessary second) to contain some details of all body parts/organs. While rest of the years are invested into doing specialization, like engineering courses. Hence, instead of producing a general MBBS, we get MBBS Ophthalmology, Neurology, EarNoseThroat, Cardiology, Radiology etc. Also duration of internship and MO ship can be reduced to fifteen-eighteen months.
By the time Indian government wakes up, we shall thank human and moral values which still persists in Indian society, as it is there presence that ensures that crises is not as severe as the one in England. But, steps have to be taken right away to avoid what appears to be inevitable.
2 comments:
good one,,very innovative idea,but needs to be evaluated on the turf of basic requirements and specifications of medical profession to entitle someone a doctor or MBBS with the desired skills...
nice post, but I don't subscribe to any of your views......will elaborate later in a separate post but just for the last para where you prophesied about a similar condition happening in India, let me shed some light a few facts which in my belief may dilute your stance.
first of all a medical degree is perhaps of the least duration - 4.5yrs in India(an engineering degree costs 4yrs atleast), secondly in last year of MBBS degree you do in hospital internship and if I remember right you do earn a meager stipend on it(you dont get it in engg.), thirdly the 1yr medical officer ship(at villages) lets you earn 15-19k pm. tax free after deducting your living expenses - thats way high than what an average IT engg. with bachelors degree earn in first year.(Though, if you dont want to do ur bit for the society or humanity doesn't appear in your dictionary or for some other reason - you can get away from village medical officership by paying some fee,i guess 75k or so).
Furthermore, Apart from subsidizing medical fee heavily(charging 30-35k instead of actual cost of 2-3Lacs a year), State Govt. also "assures" each doctor a job, which is not at all the case for an engineer.
So my friend, a medical doctorate degree from any avg. govt. college looks to me, a hundred(if not thousand) times better than an engineering degree from an avg. govt. college.
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