RESERVATION FOR DOCTORS WORKING IN RURAL AREA

Health Professionals in Rural Areas

WE SHARING HERE THE INFORMATION ABOUT RESERVATION FOR DOCTORS WORKING IN RURAL AREA IN PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU DATED 15 MARCH

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The Medical Council of India (MCI) does not regulate Paramedical Education. So far as medical students are concerned, in order to encourage medical graduates to work in remote and difficult areas, the Medical Council of India with the previous approval of Central Government has amended the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 to provide –

(i) 50% reservation in Post Graduate Diploma Courses for Medical Officers in the Government service who have served for at least three years in remote and difficult areas; and

(ii) Incentive at the rate of 10% of the marks obtained for each year in service in remote or difficult areas upto the maximum of 30% of the marks obtained in the entrance test for admissions in Post Graduate Medical Courses.

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Government is contemplating to make rural service mandatory for MBBS graduates.

In order to meet the shortage of health/paramedical professionals in the country, the Central Government has already taken various measures which inter-alia include: 

(i) Relaxation in the norms for setting up of a medical college in terms of requirement for land, bed/bed strength, etc. particularly in underserved/hilly/tribal areas. 

(ii) Decision to introduce Bachelor of Science (Community Health) course.

(iii) Setting up of new medical colleges in underserved areas in particular. 

(iv) Financial support under National Rural Health Mission for engagement of staff on contractual basis. 

(v) Financial assistance to strengthen and upgrade the teaching institutions for nurses and paramedical personnel. 

The above information was given by the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, ShriGhulamNabi Azad in a written reply to a question in the LokSabha today.

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UP govt may postpone post-graduate medical entrance exam by 3 weeks

Post agreement, UP govt may postpone post-graduate medical entrance exam by 3 weeks

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REPORT CAME IN TIMES OF INDIA TODAY
LUCKNOW: The state government may postpone the UP Post Graduate Medical Entrance Exam for three weeks considering the agreement reached between the striking medical students and district administration. Admitting that district magistrate Anurag Yadav, who was negotiating with thestriking students, has forwarded the proposal to the state government, principal secretary, JP Sharma said the government may take a decision on March 28. But, he stated that till government takes the decision, UPPGMEE would be held as per schedule on March 31.


Medical students had been agitating for last several days demanding cancellation of UPPGMEE. They wanted the government to consider NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) scores for admissions in post graduate medical courses in the state. Organised by the Medical Council of India, NEET was held in November and December 2012 and was later caught in a legal dispute, pending with the apex court and may be decided over the next three weeks.

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After being taken into custody by the district administration, thestriking medical students were detained at the Lucknow reserve police lines. While the ailing students, who took ill due to hunger strike, were hospitalised, student leaders were called for a meeting with DM Anurag Yadav at the police lines. 

In the three hours long meeting, a consensus was achieved when the issues raised by the students were sorted in point-wise. 

At the end of the meeting, the following points were noted and which indicate Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the issue. 



UP is not in favour of NEET: Striking students had been claiming that the UP government had agreed to admit students on the basis of score obtained in NEET. "It has been misconstrued. We were the first to oppose NEET but thought we would give things a chance so that the best interest of the students could be safeguarded. At that point in time, we felt letting students take NEET was good. Later, when the confusion over the issue appeared to be far from a conclusion and the apex court directed states to go ahead with the state exam, we notified about it" said JP Sharma. He clarified that going with NEET would mean losing a significant chunk of seats because they were not recognised. NEET would also limit the possibility of admitting government doctors against diploma courses. 



UP not alone to hold PGMEE: UP is not the only state to be holding its post graduate medical entrance exam. Sources in the medical education department informed that Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and CMC Vellore have already organised their entrance exams. In Gujarat, the exam is slated to take place on April 27 but the fate of the exam is not certain as students are agitating against the exam. Notifications have been issued in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir. The states of Bihar and Orissa are also likely to hold their exams soon. States of Assam and Madhya Pradesh notified their state exams but later cancelled it on account of students' protest. Only states of Punjab, Kerala, Air Force Medical College Pune, Manipur and Goa have decided to go ahead with NEET only. The stand of Maharashtra and West Bengal governments is not clear. 



'NEET isn't an umbrella exam': NEET is touted as an umbrella exam that would save students from taking tens of exams in different parts of the country. But senior officials in the medical education department claimed that NEET was not the answer to all other exams. "The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences Chandigarh, JIPMER Pudducherry was holding their separate exams," he stated. Officials also stated that since NEET was replace majority of the exams, a student who misses the chance, would end up wasting the entire year. Citing previous experience, the officials stated that many students from UP who didn't fare well in All India exam were able to get a seat for themselves in the state exam. 



Disagreement over pattern of NEET: The scoring in NEET PG took into account results psychological analysis of each student. The officials in UP believe that the parameter would give a chance for manipulation. They also stated that during the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test(NEET) was observed that many questions given to the students were repeated. Therefore, the difficulty level of the exam deteriorated with each passing day of the exam that took place over two weeks between November 23 and December 6. The officials also said that repetition of questions could not be avoided as the syllabus of a subject is fixed; therefore, there is a limit to how many questions one can cull out of the content. 
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Interns, JRs strike work at GSVM

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KANPUR: After another short round of strike late on Monday night, the emergency and put-patient department (OPD) services atGaneshShankarVidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM) normalized on Tuesday morning. The GSVM authorities reportedly forced the interns and junior doctors to call off their strike by giving them references of their results and public support.

After boycotting emergency services late on Sunday night and forcibly closing the OPD on Monday morning, the interns and JRs of GSVM Medical College again struck work at around 9.30 pm on Monday. This time the strike was short and was called off around 3 am on Tuesday after the intervention of senior GSVM authorities who reportedly pointed out to the interns threat to their career and public outcry.

According to sources, the interns who were back to work on Monday afternoon, got irked by the presence of a huge posse of police on the LLR and GSVM campus. The students said it was done to pressurize them and struck work in the night.

After the strike which started around 9.30 pm on Monday night, the students refused to admit three critically ill patients who were brought to the Emergency. The Emergency Medical officer (EMO) informed Dr Navneet Kumar, Principal and dean of GSVM about the incident.

The principal acted tough and ordered normalizing of the Emergency services.

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  Students claimed that the GSVM authorities raised the issue of results to pressurize them. The dean also reportedly told the students that they will lose public support if the strike continued. After a long talk between the authorities and the students, the latter agreed to call off the strike around 3 am. The OPD at LLR also commenced smoothly on Tuesday morning.

With an aim to supporting their colleagues protesting on the issue of UPPGMEE in Lucknow, the interns and PG students of GSVM boycotted medical services here on Monday. They forcibly closed the OPD while the emergency services were also crippled for more than three hours late on Sunday night.

The students were demanding cancellation of UPPGMEE on the grounds that they had already taken the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET).