The proposal, published as a draft amendment to Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations 2023, sought to replace practice of senior-most professor serving as HoD until retirement.
In his complaint, Dr Lakshya Mittal highlighted that for PwD resident doctors, the pressure of long shifts is compounded by physical barriers and social stigma.
Dr Sheth also spoke about staffing gaps at NMC, action taken against medical colleges for non-compliance, MBBS fee regulation, and the rollout of the National Exit Test (NExT).
The order was a response to a petition by Sahil Arsh, an MBBS student suffering from a 40% visual impairment and denied a transfer to a Delhi college despite deteriorating health conditions due to high temperatures in Barmer.
National Medical Commission withdrew nod to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence to run MBBS course citing non-compliance, days after row over Muslim admissions.
Demonstrations erupted in Jammu last month after 42 Muslim students from Kashmir were admitted to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence’s 50-seat MBBS programme.
The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.
Instituted in 1962 by the erstwhile MCI, the original award was considered the most coveted for the medical fraternity in the country but was discontinued in 2019.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
By virtue of joining first one cant hold the post of HOD till retirement. Suppose one person is not good even then he or she vl hold post till retirement there should be some criteria for rotational Hod ship..it is happening in IIM, IIT AMU BHU, even in top foreign institutions except in medical colleges thats why there is toxicity because people on chair only acting for there ego satisfaction.
By virtue of joining first one cant hold the post of HOD till retirement. Suppose one person is not good even then he or she vl hold post till retirement there should be some criteria for rotational Hod ship..it is happening in IIM, IIT AMU BHU, even in top foreign institutions except in medical colleges thats why there is toxicity because people on chair only acting for there ego satisfaction.