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Three news articles in the first two days of the new decade indicate that the Medical Council of India is contemplating a major overhaul of medical education in India
Beginning with undergraduate medical education (MBBS).
The Hindu: MCI suggests major reforms in undergraduate course [my comments in bold italics in parentheses]

The MCI has recommended major reforms in [...]

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via DNA - Centre cracks the whip on Indian Medical Association for endorsing products.
Sending a strong signal to doctors endorsing products for private companies, Medical Council of India (MCI) has banned top office-bearers of Indian Medical Association (IMA) from practising medicine for six months. IMA’s national president Goparaju Samaram and secretary Dharam Prakash have been removed from [...]

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Note: This a guest post by my colleague and neighbour, Dr. George Paul. He is a maxillofacial surgeon and lawyer. He writes and speaks on various legal and ethical issues in medical care. He is also an occasional blogger. This article is also cross-posted in his blog.
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In July 2010 the Madras High Court, in a [...]

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I started writing this on the way back home from a meeting that I attended over last weekend. This has remained a rough draft for the past three days. I decided to publish it now with minimal changes. Else this too shall remain in my drafts folder for a long enough time to become irrelevant.
The [...]

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The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:

As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]

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[Image - Screen grab from The Hindu's online article]
Note: The post title relates to this older post
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Update (24.04.2010, 2:45 PM):
This news article from The Economic Times gives more details about the sordid story…

NEW DELHI: In an important step towards cleaning up the corruption in the medical education sector, the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Medical [...]

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Wishing everyone a Happy Pongal & a prosperous New Year
இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்துக்கள்
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Thai Pongal (தை பொங்கல்), the Tamil harvest festival holds a special significance for me as I was born on the first day of the Tamil month Thai (தை), which falls on January 14 this year.
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The picture above, a joint venture with my daughter (done three [...]

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Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]