Medical MSc to protest against reduction of percent of non-MBBS teachers in medical colleges by NMC on March 20
New Delhi: Almost 200 non-medical teachers and students pursuing medical MSc courses across India will be converging at Jantar Mantar, Parliament Street, New Delhi under the banner of the National M.Sc Medical Teachers' Association (NMMTA) on 20th March 2021 to protest against the reduction and exclusion of medical M.Sc and Ph.D. teachers in the medical colleges by the National Medical...
New Delhi: Almost 200 non-medical teachers and students pursuing medical MSc courses across India will be converging at Jantar Mantar, Parliament Street, New Delhi under the banner of the National M.Sc Medical Teachers' Association (NMMTA) on 20th March 2021 to protest against the reduction and exclusion of medical M.Sc and Ph.D. teachers in the medical colleges by the National Medical Commission (NMC).
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that NMC issued a gazetted notification on 28 October 2020 titled "minimum requirement for annual MBBS admission regulations, 2020" and the percentage of non-medical teachers in the three clinical specialities of anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology had been halved from 30 to 15 % whereas the nonmedical teachers had been completely eliminated from para clinical specialities of pharmacology and microbiology.
For biochemistry, the hiring limit was a whopping 50 per cent which got jolted down to 15 per cent. Moreover, the new regulations made no such specifications on the ceiling for pharmacology and microbiology. As per the previous MCI norms, up to 30% (50% in Biochemistry) of faculty in the non-clinical subjects could be scientists with medical M.Sc/Ph.D qualifications.
The association alleged that the move came in line with the demand of a major section of the medical fraternity that was rooting for phasing out of the non-MBBS teachers from medical colleges. The move had sparked fear of joblessness among the MSc medical teachers.
The association made submissions to several authorities including officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and Niti Aayog to reinstate the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) norm regarding the appointment of Non-MBBS teachers, however, no steps were taken by the authorities to address their grievances.
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Aggravated by the non-action of the authorities to date, the association has now decided to hold the protest at Jantar Mantar on 20th March.
