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One year rural posting essential for medical students

Innovative Delhi: Aspiring doctors will have to shell out a year working in rural locations before getting their MBBS degrees, as being the government has decided to make outlying posting compulsory for them.

In a letter to the Medical Authority of India (MCI), the Health Ministry has requested its Board of Governors to make rural posting for medical practitioners mandatory and include it inside the MBBS course curriculum.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said doctors will be attached with the Ministry's flagship National Farm Health Mission during the year extended rural posting which will also aid improve health care services within villages.

Once this pitch becomes part of MBBS curriculum, a medical student, after completing Some.5 years of study in addition to thereafter the 15110 hospital internship, need to undergo a mandatory year long dwelling job in the form of a countryside posting before getting the MBBS stage. Till then, the degree could be provisional.

Chairman of MCI Board with Governors K K Talwar told PTI how the one year compulsory rural writing for doctors is in the offing plus modalities in this respect are being worked out. The posting would be built mandatory in a designated rural area.

"We are working on this. A process is being evolved in this 15477 regard. A professional committee is looking into this specific and will recommend modalities in their meeting soon, after which the main points worked out will be sent to the Ministry for its approval," Mister Talwar said.

Sources say the federal is working to do away with your compulsory three month rural posting during the year long MBBS internship and the same will be manufactured part of the one year rural residence job with an NRHM facility henceforth.

Mister Talwar said this one year obligatory rural posting will help driven doctors to learn from older doctors who will act as advisors in the rural area.

The MBBS graduated pupils, he said, will be attached with any rural hospital and a regional medical college during this twelve months period.

They will also get an affordable stipend from the NRHM for their services make your best effort, he said.

Justifying the proposal, Mister Azad said it takes almost seven years or even more to become a health practitioner and to actually get the permission to start prescribing medicines within developed countries whereas the MBBS system duration in India is really a lot shorter.

The Minister claimed due to the shorter duration of this course here than in the created nations, many students prefer to analysis MBBS course in India and after that carry out higher studies overseas.

Talwar also said that it takes 7 to eight years to acquire a medical undergraduate degree in many countries and studying in India is also cheaper than inside developed world.

"The rural posting will go in favour of students aspiring to be doctors as it will help them update their skills when mentored by senior doctors. The provision will give them peripheral visibility while 15909 also granting them acceptable facilities where they can sharpen their skills," he said.

He said the 15273 Council can make all such recommendations to the Wellbeing Ministry soon before this proposal is actually implemented.

Government's efforts to draw doctors for rural posts through various incentives before did not yield any fruits, as there were no takers for 50 % reservation in postgraduate classes for MBBS doctors who opted for farm stints after taking undergraduate level.

MBBS students who did annually of rural service could get 10 marks to supplement weightage in MD examination, though those who did three years company in backward areas would get 30 marks. This scheme did not have a single taker.

"I voice it out with regret that our health professionals have decided not to go to outlying areas. Nobody has come toward avail of the incentives proposed by the Government," Mr Azad said in Parliament last week.