Medical Council of India needs to review Rules on Faculty Appointments: Parliamentary Panel

.... the Committee have emphasized that MCI need to review its rules and regulations pertaining to appointment of faculty and come out with out of box solutions in line with international practices to tide over the shortage of faculty.....

While observing that shortage of faculty in medical colleges has adversely affected their quality of teaching, the Committee have recommended that renowned medical specialists with academic background in cities can be given the status of visiting faculty to teach UG/PG students as students generally love to have famous doctors of city teaching them the art of medical practice and it will also increase the pool of medical faculty.

While taking note of the revision of teacher:student ratio, the Committee have emphasized that the quality of medical education is not compromised. Besides, the Committee have recommended to take the benefit of e-teaching devices for medical education in various medical colleges and universities.

While noting that the overall research output from the Indian Medical Institutions is very poor and there is a lack of big collaborations or programmes between Institutions where eminent professors and standard equipments are available for research work in the field of medical science and medical instrumentation, the Committee have recommended to take urgent initiatives to encourage and incentivize the medical students so that they concentrate more on research activities in the field of medicine.

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