According to University Registrar Dr Rajendra Bangal, the new fellowship was launched on the concept of Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. Madhuri Kanitkar (Retd.) to empower primary healthcare and provide skilled services in urban and rural areas.
The course, which prioritises multi-disciplinary education and the Indian knowledge system in line with the National Education Policy, is open to graduates of medicine and Ayurveda.
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Dr Bangal said the students will be given basic skills in primary examination, screening, and treatment for common diseases, gynaecology, paediatrics, primary emergency management, and mental health. The core of the fellowship is to provide proper advice and treatment of both Ayurveda and modern medicine, which will help reduce pressure on major hospitals, quotes UNI
MPGI Dean Dr Mrinal Patil said that training for modern medicine subjects would be imparted to students at Maharashtra Postgraduate Medical Education and Research Institute in Nashik. For Ayurveda subjects, students will be trained at two affiliated Ayurveda colleges, including Ayurved Seva Sangh Ayurveda College and Shri Saptashrungi Ayurveda College. Dr Patil said the one-year fellowship, consisting of 15 modules, will offer experiential education in various hospital departments.
In May, Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that Highlighting major concerns regarding the quality of medical education in Maharashtra, a recent inspection report by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik, revealed an acute shortage of teaching faculty in the government medical colleges across the State.
As per the MUHS inspection report, not a single government medical college and hospital in Maharashtra has 100% of its teaching posts filled. In fact, ten GMCs in the State are reportedly functioning with less than half the sanctioned teaching staff,
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