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I was pleasantly surprised by some news passed on by one of my medical college classmates from Chennai a couple of days ago.
One of our classmates, I’ll call her Sue, has been promoted and appointed as a Unit Chief in the General Medicine department in a big league medical college in Chennai.
Sue was among the [...]

Instead of flipping through a textbook, radiology residents will soon use computers to learn about the physics of radiology.
Four Web-based instructional modules are being developed by medical physicists and radiologists at the Medical College of Georgia. The project is funded by the Radiological Society of North America and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

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News item in today’s paper.
I have taken the liberty of reproducing the entire (fortunately short) article here.
India to recognise foreign medical degrees
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday decided to recognise postgraduate medical degrees being awarded in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
However, these degrees will be recognised on condition that [...]

This is in support of the token strike by medical students in Tamil Nadu [News reports here & here].
As usual the print media devoted a few column inches to the strike and promptly forgot about the issue after the processions and strike were over. I do not know if the TV news shows provided any [...]