The medical education department's decision to increase the number of seats for externs in government colleges like Gandhi and Osmania from 60 to 200 a few years ago has come as a boon for the private college managements. By issuing 50 NOCs, they make a neat Rs 1 crore.
Of the nearly 5,000 MBBS seats in the state, 3,000 seats are under the private sector. Poor patient flow is one of the main reasons why about 35% of the students from private colleges choose to do their internship at the overloaded government hospitals. The hidden agenda is however to evade the strenuous training.
Senior doctors say that the present-day house surgeons don't want to get trained unlike those two to three decades back. They say that today, MBBS is only a prerequisite for post-graduation. Doctors maintained that the demand for setting up of private medical colleges is on an all-time high but when it comes to the quality of training, all the existing colleges fail miserably.
"In one of the several MCI violations, none of these colleges are paying stipend to these house surgeons. However, they ensure that they collect Rs 45-70 lakh for a seat," laments a professor.
Experts say, that more medical colleges in the private sector will further dilute the education and training."Government hospitals are trying to increase the seats but they could not do so due to lack of proper infrastructure. But then how they are training another 200 students from outside besides their own 150 students," experts questioned.
However, private hospital managements say that they are not compelling students. "People who want to get trained in their parent college are allowed to do so. But when there is an opportunity to do internship in a government college, why can't they make use of it? Hospitals are gaining both ways as managements want to make money," says an administrator of a private medical college.
Of the nearly 5,000 MBBS seats in the state, 3,000 seats are under the private sector. Poor patient flow is one of the main reasons why about 35% of the students from private colleges choose to do their internship at the overloaded government hospitals. The hidden agenda is however to evade the strenuous training.
Senior doctors say that the present-day house surgeons don't want to get trained unlike those two to three decades back. They say that today, MBBS is only a prerequisite for post-graduation. Doctors maintained that the demand for setting up of private medical colleges is on an all-time high but when it comes to the quality of training, all the existing colleges fail miserably.
"In one of the several MCI violations, none of these colleges are paying stipend to these house surgeons. However, they ensure that they collect Rs 45-70 lakh for a seat," laments a professor.
Experts say, that more medical colleges in the private sector will further dilute the education and training."Government hospitals are trying to increase the seats but they could not do so due to lack of proper infrastructure. But then how they are training another 200 students from outside besides their own 150 students," experts questioned.
However, private hospital managements say that they are not compelling students. "People who want to get trained in their parent college are allowed to do so. But when there is an opportunity to do internship in a government college, why can't they make use of it? Hospitals are gaining both ways as managements want to make money," says an administrator of a private medical college.
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