TN applies for 157 more PG seats in 9 govt colleges

  • | Thursday | 21st June, 2018

CHENNAI: The directorate of medical education has applied for at least 157 additional postgraduate seats in nine state-run medical colleges across Tamil Nadu. We want to add at least 100 UG seats either through new medical colleges or by increasing seats in existing colleges. Government Villupuram Medical College, which has 100 UG seats, has applied for 53 PG seats. “By 2023, almost all our medical colleges will have postgraduate courses as it has become mandatory now,” he added.The MCI has made it mandatory for all colleges offering MBBS to start postgraduate courses by 2020-21. “We have nearly 2,900 undergraduate MBBS seats now.

CHENNAI: The directorate of medical education has applied for at least 157 additional postgraduate seats in nine state-run medical colleges across Tamil Nadu. If the Medical Council of India , the regulatory body in medical education, approves these seats, the state will see a 15% increase in postgraduate seat count.The director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe said the government is planning to increase the PG seat count to at least 1,500 in the next three years. “We have nearly 2,900 undergraduate MBBS seats now. We want to add at least 100 UG seats either through new medical colleges or by increasing seats in existing colleges. Simultaneously, we want to ensure that at least one in every two undergraduates has a PG opportunity,” he said.This year the state has sent application to start MD/MS courses in general medicine, surgery, paediatrics, respiratory medicine, anaesthesiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics and physical medicine. Government Villupuram Medical College, which has 100 UG seats, has applied for 53 PG seats. MCI has already completed one round of basic inspection at Villupuram and another team is expected to come by this month-end for second round of inspections.In 2017, Tamil Nadu added more than 100 PG seats across eight hospitals. “We are looking at increasing seats in each zone. Last time we added 32 seats in Tuticorin. This time we are planning to increase seats in Villupuram,” said a senior official. “By 2023, almost all our medical colleges will have postgraduate courses as it has become mandatory now,” he added.The MCI has made it mandatory for all colleges offering MBBS to start postgraduate courses by 2020-21. Colleges have to apply for permit to start postgraduate courses within three years of grant of recognition, or three years from the date of inclusion of the MBBS qualification, according to the Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018, notified on April 5. MCI has said that failure to do the same will lead to withdrawal of recognition of MBBS qualification.In 2017, the government opened a medical college and hospital in Pudukottai, taking the number of state-run medical colleges to 22.

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