GOOD NEWS FOR MEDICAL PG ASPIRANTS

4000 NEW MEDICAL PG SEATS

The government has approved over 4,000 PG medical seats in various medical colleges and hospitals for the academic session 2017-18 and called it a record in medical academics till now. Of the total, 2,046 seats will be added to medical colleges.

"In a huge boost to medical education in the country, over 4,000 PG medical seats have been approved by the Government of India in various medical colleges and hospitals for the academic session 2017-18, taking the total number of PG seats available to 35,117," said Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda.

"Looking at the need to increase PG seats in clinical subjects, the Government had decided to amend the teacher student ratio in clinical subjects in government medical colleges. This change alone has resulted in the creation of 1,137 extra seats in 71 colleges," said Nadda.

According to him, many others out of the total of 212 government colleges were sending their proposals and it was expected that at least 1,000 more seats would be added during the month of March 2017.

Diplomate National Board (DNB) seats, which are equivalent to MD/MS, have increased by 2,147 in the last one year.

Thus, there has been a total addition of 4,193 PG seats in the country so far, and a further addition of more than 1000 seats is likely during March 2017.

Once that happens, the Budget announcement of adding 5,000 PG medical seats in the country is likely to be achieved soon.

7 Offerings for Medical PG Aspirants

Union Budget 2017: 7 Offerings for Medical PG Aspirants

Union Budget for the financial year 2017-2018 was presented by Finance Minister Sh. Arun Jaitley on February 1st 2017.

The Budget has positive offerings for the Healthcare sector and Medical PG Aspirants.

A massive Rs. 48,853 Crore has been allocated to the Healthcare sector this year as opposed to Rs. 38, 206 Crore last year.

This reflects a raise of Rs. 10, 647 crore which corresponds to 27.86% jump over 2016-17.

This blog will familiarize you with what all the Union Budget has in store for Medical PG aspirants.

7 ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Creation of 5,000 Additional PG Medical Seats

In order to deal with the problem of acute shortage of Doctors in the nation and to ensure adequate availability of Specialist Doctors to strengthen Secondary and Tertiary levels of Health Care, the Government has announced the creation of 5,000 additional PG medical seats in the nation.

Medical PG Seat Strength in the nation is currently 18,000 in Clinical Subjects which are not sufficient to match its teaching and research requirements.

2. Upgrade ‘District Hospitals’ as ‘Medical Colleges’

The Massive increased allocation has gone to a scheme which has the intention to upgrade 58 Government District Hospitals as Medical Colleges. 5 District colleges have been upgraded so far. The Budget seeks to target the rest with an allocation of Rs. 4,000 Crore this year.

3. Strengthening PG Teaching

Centre plans to strengthen PG Teaching in select ESI and Municipal Corporation Hospitals.

4. Rolling Out’ DNB Courses

Centre is planning to take steps to roll out DNB courses in Big District Hospitals.

5.  New AIIMS to be Set Up

Budget has announced that 2 New AIIMS will be established in the states of Gujarat and Jharkhand.

6. Steps to Encourage Hospitals to start ‘Diplomate of National Board’ Courses 

Budget has announced that steps will be taken to encourage Reputed Private Hospitals to start DNB Courses

7. Permission to "For Profit Companies" to Establish Medical Colleges

The budget has also granted permission to profit companies to establish Medical colleges after satisfying minimum statutory norms of the MCI.

This provision will facilitate any registered company such as Reliance or Fortis or Wipro to set up Medical colleges.