By 2020, all government medical colleges in TN would offer PG seats
Posted on: 03/Jan/2019 10:36:00 AM
As per the Medical Council of India or MCI mandate, all the government medical colleges in TN would offer post graduate courses for the students from the year 2020. It has been confirmed by the officials that all the courses and specialities in each college would be chosen by the directorate of medical education and it would be based on the requirement of the government plus on the job opportunities and community needs etc. The list of specialties that needs more doctors along with the names of districts that need them is taken into consideration and the directorate is working on this now.
Director of Medical Education Dr. A. Edwin Joe shared his thoughts and spoke about how almost all the district as well as medical college hospitals in TN would need more nephrologists as more number of people has chronic and acute renal failure. He revealed that the state health department had spent more in treating those with kidney diseases than those with other health issues like cancer, heart attacks, strokes etc. He threw light on the necessity to equip tier 2 and tier 3 cities with specialists who would be able to deal this. It is important to note that between the years 2017 and 2018 the government approved Rs 1000 each towards the claims of as many as 216922 people per dialysis cycle under the chief minister health insurance scheme.
For dialysis, the insurance company paid both government and private hospitals amount above Rs 174 crores. The director of medical education pointed out that there were more than 15000 claims for the treatment of kidney stones and more than 700 renal transplants. He spoke about how the state is working on the policies to prevent kidney diseases and the need of many nephrologists who could identify the kidney diseases early and reduce the process of renal failure. The state of TN needs many neurosurgeons, orthopedicians and radiologists in addition to the nephrologists to deal with the increasing trauma cases caused by road accidents, falls etc. Dr. Edwin Joe then opened out about the students not showing interest in cardiac surgery though the demand is very high in the government departments. He said the students would be encouraged to take up cardiac surgery.
The point is 15 out of the 22 state run medical colleges in TN would offer atleast 1250 post graduate degree and 396 diploma seats. Dr. G. Selvarajan, state selection committee secretary, pointed out that the state of TN would surrender as many as 367 out of a total of 780 PG seats to all India quota and it would also surrender 226 of the surgery seats out of total of 470 surgery seats to the all India quota. For the additional PG seats in Kanyakumari Medical College, MCI inspections are on.
