Acquaint students with fields related to their domain: MCI

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, February 23

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has asked medical colleges in the state to acquaint postgraduate medical students with disciplines related to their specialisation. For this, the MCI has directed colleges to sign memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with nearby institutions, where the infrastructure for such specialties exists.

This means that students of MS (surgery) should also be taught pediatric surgery, neuro-surgery and urology etc; students of MD (medicine) should be acquainted with cardiology, neurology and endocrinology, etc. Likewise, students of MD (pediatrics) should also study neonatology.

In premier medical institutions such as the AIIMS, New Delhi, and PGIMER, Chandigarh, where all super-specialty branches exist, PG students are taught about fields related to their chosen discipline. But in the absence of super-specialty programmes in most of the medical colleges in the state, PG students don’t get much exposure. This explains the MCI’s directive to colleges to sign pacts with other institutions.

In an advisory-cum-direction to all medical colleges, the MCI has conveyed that postgraduate medical training is based on the principle of giving an opportunity to students get exposure to all possible streams related to their parent discipline.

It is further directed that the faculty in super-specialty departments should be engaged in teaching PG students in their broad specialty.