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June 19th, 2006 
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CRISIS IN INDIAN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Time to verify the Issues
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Improving the health of a common man is a Universal priority, every elected Government should fall in line to show the citizens that health is a concern for them, they promise to find ways to improve it. India continues to spend less on basic health care when compared with many of our neighboring Nations. India with mass population base of more than 1 billion can do little to date; the existing Governmental system is compromised with politics, lethargy, and corruption. The vision to start many Medical colleges in India in private sector has greatly changed the face of National health in the last three decades. Many Institutes are recognized as centers of excellence and produced many competent Doctors who are no less than Doctors created by the reputed Government Institutions Recently there is sudden surge of several Medical colleges in private sector The challenges to run a private medical college are many and much more difficult than running a Government Medical College. The Medical Council of India regulates to build infrastructure, and bring in qualified and experienced persons who are more of spent out force, few have current perceptions to build modern Institutions, and many have to compromise with private managements. The Medical council is interested in physical verification and head counting. No body asks about our vision to develop the Department or College. If the present number of establishing Medical Colleges continues will produce substandard Doctors who are outdated even for today’s needs. The results are evident with mushrooming of private Medical and Nursing College’s producing less equipped, less productive and highly exploitive doctors. But question remains who will bear the burden, the answer is certainly innocent public. In spite of several difficulties the private medical institutes should create something more imaginative so our students are prepared to improve the health system and adapt rapidly to changing health scenario in the Nation. The present resentment of our young medical graduates to go to rural areas exposes, that we have created Doctors for urban care and comforts, they are afraid to work alone without guidance of seniors The major fault lies with us we are producing graduates in modern medicine with modern facilities without teaching adoption to poor patients and rural need, In allopathic system of Medicine we are teaching on evidence based protocols , proving good in theory and poor in practice The question comes are we elders justified in blaming young Doctors who are not willing to go rural areas. Many policy makers have no idea of rural life; make policies on paper which will never work. In next few decades only private medical institutes will decide the future of Nations health. It is time that upcoming Institutes should decide their priorities, can we do the best care of patients, create and encourage better teachers and save many lives. Our less performing Medical graduate’s lies with poor practical training, rapid expansion made many Doctors as teachers without passion for teaching imparting poor knowledge. The greatest down fall of our degrees lies without poor practical assessment of our students. Many private management’s asses the teacher’s capabilities to produce good percentage of results, every sincere teacher is a loser in the present commercial system of education where managements market results as source of their strength. There are several medical colleges started in the last 5 -10 years, waiting for social judgments, and people are watching how they perform, and many substandard students awarded degrees will spoil the reputation of their parent Institutions. We are certain to see many Medical graduates produced in the substandard Institutes are harmful, non competitive and bring in dangerous trends in Medical Profession Several medical institutions which do not comply with ethics and integrity will certainly face Darwin’s law waiting to set right things. It is time Medical Council of India should monitor the events and start Academic grading and continued performance based support in need of crisis in upcoming Medical colleges, otherwise vision of elders making our’s as healthy Nation will be a unachievable dream.
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I'm impressed as you have done your homework! Baylor is an excellent choice. You are on track with what you are doing. An asset would be to work in a research laboratory as an assistant while an undergraduate, or during the time before you gain acceptance. This will help you with strong letters of recommendation that you will need when you apply. In the meantime, make sure you get to know your teachers and counselor/s, so they can write letters for you.
Extracurricular activities are important, but make sure you keep your grades up, as that is first priority. Also, they look for leadership abilities. Join all honor societies that you are eligible for and participate in their governance. Best wishes.
No, it isn't….at least not in the United States. American medical schools require a bachelors degree for admission.
Yes, you take the premed subjects in high school, but that's not the same level as the college courses. Even if you took bio, physics, chemistry, etc. in high school you have to take the college level to be eligible to apply to American med schools. Most medical schools don't "count" AP or IB credit as having completed a required college course. Being a "premed" MEANS that you're taking the prerequisite classes….bio, physics, chemistry, organic chemistry and so on. Most schools require a complete year of each, including labs.
If you for some reason took these classes at an accredited college while still in high school, you don't retake them again in college–you are expected to advance on to more challenging levels of coursework. Medical schools aren't at all impressed by people who want to do the bare minimum required to get by.
The "fastest" way to get to med school is accelerating your time in college (usually by entering with enough credits to start as a sophomore)….but graduating early often puts you at a disadvantage in applying to med school because you have a year less of grades, activities, and research compared to the other students you're competing against.
My advice: chill out and enjoy college and life.
The Dhaka Medical College (DMCH) ranked best medical college and Sir Salimullah Medical College (SSMCH) is second best in Dhaka.
I have a list of almost all the medical colleges collated from Internet search and could provide you here if that would help. You may be aware that it is not that one can make a choice to apply to any of the medical colleges and get admitted. There are examination held once in a year when all the aspirants would sit for written examination after their school and college mark-sheets and certificates were preliminary scrutinized for eligibility for the test.
For students belonging to SAARC countries there is arrangement to get admission at anytime of the year. I do not have complete information but you may contact High Commission of Bangladesh in your country to get exact picture.
You may contact Ministry of Health, Bangladesh Secretariat, Building 2, Dhaka 100 Tel +880 2 865063 for more details.
Appended below are two main medical colleges under government management in Dhaka:
1. Dhaka Medical College, 100 Ramna, Dhaka 1000 Tel: +880 2 500 698 it uses: Dhaka Medical College Hospital Tel: +880 2 318202
2. Sir Salimullah Medical College (SSMC), Mitford, Dhaka Tel +880 2 236 486
In any case, keep contact with the respective authorities for getting accurate information.
From Wikipedia:
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), established in 1946 during the British colonial rule, is the top medical college in Bangladesh. Situated at the heart of the city in the academic zone along with University of Dhaka and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka Medical College is an educational institution with a rich heritage.
For the top 180 freshmen places in 2006 in whole Bangladesh, nearly 18000 (eighteen thousand) applicants sat for the medical college entrance examination. The different batches of Dhaka Medical College are named with the prefix K, as for example K-60, which denotes the 60th batch of the college that was admitted in 2003. The meaning of the prefix K is still mysterious and there are different opinions. Some say, K, being the 11th letter of the English alphabet, signifies the 11th medical college of the-then Indian subcontinent. Some other opines that K is for Calcutta, as many of the first students came from Calcutta Medical College.
It all depends, if you want to go to a bs/md combined program or get into an MD/DO program traditionally. A bs/md program is basically giving you automatic acceptance into their medical program as long as you maintain a certain GPA(usually 3.5). However, admission to these programs are very competitive because they only look for the smartest kids. I don't know what gpa you have but it has to be REALLY high.
I would suggest going through the traditional route. Apply to any college(it doesn't matter as long as its legit) and get a great gpa. Take all the pre-requisite courses required for medical school(look for them at certain medical school websites) and rock the MCAT. Also, you can major in anything you want, it doesn't have to be biology.
Once you get into medical school you can start exploring what you want kind of doctor you want to be. You're still just a high school graduate(or soon to be) so I would just stress on getting into any good college and focus on getting good grades.
In the US? In the US, before you can apply to medical school (to become a doctor), you must first have a bachelors degree.
You can do one year at the cc, and then transfer to another university to complete your bachelors. The work you did at the cc will count toward your bachelors degree.
But you can not transfer from a cc to a medical school, because med schools, in the US, are post graduate programs.
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In India, medical degree programs are undergraduate programs, usually of 5 or 6 years duration, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS or MBBCh or MBChB). One generally enter medical school after high school or pre-university studies (commonly the 'A' levels).
In the USA, medical degree programs are graduate programs of 4 years duration leading to the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Most students enter medical schools with a 4-year bachelor's degree, completion of the undergraduate pre-med curriculum and the MCAT (medical college admission test).
As long as the medical school in India is a recognized medical school, you can apply to take the Medical Licensing Exams in the USA through ECFMG (www.ecfmg.org) and apply for residency programs in the USA. Even if you are US citizen or legal resident, as long as you hold a non-US/Canadian medical degree, you'll be considered an international medical graduate.
No one can tell you if the exams are tough or easy. US medical graduates may find it tough while some foreign-trained physicians may find it easy. It depends on the quality of your training.
The good thing about the US medical programs is the curriculum is designed to meet the standards of the US Medical Licensing Examinations (Step 1, 2 and 3) leading to full licensure.
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This question might require a long reply since there are many different types of colleges and universities.
Regular colleges offer a variety of program leading to a variety of batchelors degree, masters degrees and phd. A medical college usually comes after persuing a "pre med" course at a regular college.
the Medical college is intended to produce a Medical Doctors degree
which should include a license to practice medicine. Admission to Medical college usually requires the completion of a degree at a regular college (including regular colleges that provide "pre-med" courses)
Completing course work is not enough to secure a medical license… there are other demanding requirements and programs including internship, residence requirement etc that may require another 2 to 4 years of training after the 4 years of medical school, after the 4 years to finish a regular college and passing a variety of intensive training in a chosen field.
If you are interested in becoming a doctor you need more information than can be given in a "short answer" make an effort to become informed about medical training. I hope this is what you were looking for
Don.
Start college level courses now. Study over the summer and impress the heck out of a school with a good pre-med program.
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