Introduction of Family Adoption Programme In MBBS Curriculum to reach rural parts - Video

Published On 2022-01-05T13:32:01+05:30 | Updated On 5 Jan 2022 1:32 PM IST

Overview

Lack of medical facilities in rural parts of India is a major drawback to Indian medical management, inability to acess to the remote areas is one of the biggest failure in medical field. Agenda being to reach most of the population new set of regulations are being brought to light to achieve accesibility

Sole purpose being to take healthcare services to rural areas of the country in an equitable manner, the National Medical Commission (NMC) is now considering to inculcate Family Adoption Programme (FAP) as a part of MBBS training curriculum.

The possibility of including this programme under the supervision of the Community Medicine Department of every College has been mentioned in a recent paper penned down by the President of UG Medical Education Board of NMC, Dr Aruna V Vanikar and Dr Vijayendra Kumar, a member of the UGMEB.

The paper titled "The family adoption programme: Taking Indian medical undergraduate education to villages", has provided a brief understanding of the availability of doctors in India when compared to the rural population says the journal the Indian Journal of Preventive & Social Medicine,

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Coming Soon: NMC plans on Introducing Family Adoption Programme in MBBS Curriculum

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Dr. Nandita Mohan

BDS, MDS( Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry)

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