Rivsed teacher student ratio to create additional 5000 medical PG seats in India
Team Udayavani, Feb 2, 2017, 10:20 AM IST
New Delhi: At the behest of the Central Government, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has revised the teacher student ratio to increase PG seats in clinical subjects. As per the notification dated January 31, 2017 issued by MCI under its PG Regulations, the teacher student ratio shall be 1:3 for Professor and 1:2 for Associate Professor, who is a unit head. The relaxation shall be available only to public funded Medical Colleges in all clinical subjects.
The measure is expected to yield about 5000 additional PG seats in clinical subjects in the coming years. A meeting was convened with all states/UTs on January 24, 2017 and they have been advised to take action for starting/increase of seats in PG courses in Government Medical Colleges immediately.
The increased availability of PG seats along with a centralized entrance exam viz. NEET (PG) is a major step in reform of medical education in the country. The admission process to medical courses has been made transparent with many States adopting combined counselling at State level for under graduate admissions including for private medical colleges/ Deemed Universities in the academic session 2016-17. The Ministry vide letter dated December 05, 2016 has requested for combined counselling for PG admissions in session 2017-18. Most of the States have agreed.
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