Will a shorter medical course solve rural doctor shortages?
Parley by The Hindu
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked the State Health Department to consider starting a shorter three-year diploma course for medical practitioners who would then run primary health centers. The problem of a shortage of doctors in rural areas in India is not new and persists across states. Can our MBBS syllabus be shortened or pruned to make it serve the needs of rural physicians? Or will such a move erode the structure of medical education and lead to an even bigger problem of quackery than we have now? We debate these questions with Dr. Sudha Sashyan, former Vice Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Doctor M.J.R Medical University and Dr. Soham Bh
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