Against Inclusion Of MSc Phd Qualified Persons as Medical and Dental College Teachers
- Target:
- Indian public, government of India, World Health organisations, Indian newspapers, World newspapers
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- www.aimdda.wordpress.com
PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION AGAINST INCLUSION OF MSC PHD QUALIFIED PERSONS AS MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGE TEACHERS. They are Unsuitable, unqualified, under educated or improperly educated as Medical Teachers as they are teaching something they themselves do not know some thing they have not practiced in fullest, not seen a single medical case or not treated a single patient – hence mere Msc are unemployable in medical institutions for teaching purposes. The British, or USA educated MSc’s are not comparable, but we know our Indian version of Msc,we know its syllabus, the depths of knowledge tested, hence we feel Indian MSc is definitely inferior or incomparable to an MBBS.
Why we are interested in involving the esteemed members of public in our litigation is that surely the society should have a role in selecting the teachers who teach their wards. Such precaution parents often exercise in studies up to 12th standard or Plus two courses. Some how beyond Plus two,i.e MBBS and MD,BDS,MDS or B.E ,Bsc Nursing or BSc MLT or other science courses parents fail to exercise caution. Also students are not in position to judge their teachers in medical or dental colleges. Hence we need societal participation in monitoring health and medical education in a developing country like India.
An Msc (General Science) or MSc Medical science graduates are serving different functional domains in our society. A General MSc graduate is a BSc from a science college and gains entry to an MSc course in Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany majors and is expected to go into research, teaching of Science college students. A Medical Science Msc degree has been offered by medical colleges like Manipal and Mangalore Kasturba Medical College and Dr ALM Centre for Basic Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kottayam as they happen to employ a medical graduate or two to supervise, along with other teachers of a science college, the candidate’s research project/thesis. Here a abridged syllabus in anatomy is employed, as anatomy teachers do not exist in such universities.MCI governs the quality of MSc degree in formative few years and then virtually such MCI recognized centre remains uncontrolled by MCI.
Medical teaching also depends on clinical experience gained by case-work and it adds upto medical theoretical knowledge in subjects like physiology, microbiology, biochemistry and when relevant clinical medicine information is taught to student he will be able to do problem solving, and diagnose disease or understand disease to solve peoples suffering. Only a medical person, holding MBBS degree has complete basic knowledge of theory and practice of modern allopathy hence has been employed even by ayurvedic and homeopathic colleges to teach medicine. So a nonmedical person especially an MSc cannot do efficient or relevant medical teaching for two reasons-hes has not studied medicine, and he has not qualified in practical exams like a MBBS doctor.
Further, such Msc faculty will not be able to do efficient medical teaching-they may be highly qualified but do not suit the medical college teaching which just requires the Bachelors in medicine and surgery or dentistry not masters in science. Sufficient Medical graduates are present in existing society (MBBS) and will have to be employed as medical and dental college teachers. Efficiency of medical teaching is to MBBS persons having vast previous medical teaching experience and such a teaching system of employing MBBS persons has been in practice in Directorates of medical education in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu.Even now to some extent MBBS tutors are employed in Karnataka Director of Medical Education Service.
MSc persons are not employable-in medical college settings. Though may have gone through a abridged curriculum some MSc graduates as from Medical colleges lack application on Medical settings, and lack actual self learned medical skills borne out of self experience. A nonmedical person cannot differentiate lung sounds in Normal and diseased lungs yet has to give discourse on Lung sounds, which he delivers, is height of hypocrisy and cheating in medical teaching.
Such nonmedical graduates are not employable and head of departments have struggled in previous decades to teach such persons medical basics.Many Msc teachers admit in medical colleges their inability to teach certain topics which are difficult to them since they are trying to teach something which they themselves do not know. Teaching something they themselves do not know makes them unemployable and may end up teaching incorrect medical knowledge to their students,and such faulty teaching is disastrous and results in defective understanding of basic medical sciences among students graduating from medical institutions.
We should not lower the goals just to achieve our goal, and means is also important. Absence of Medical faculty should not be filled by non medical persons even in dire scarcity the reason being it dilutes and defeats the purpose of medical teaching. Employing nonmedical means, i.e nonmedical teachers will end up in producing a non medical oriented MBBS graduate and employing a medical teacher will produce a student well trained in basics of medical sciences, to suit our clinical practice in medicine and dentistry and will be able to apply his clinical knowledge in most efficient way to impart clinical skills apart from fulfilling curriculum requirements.
Hence MCI has been insisting on medical teachers in medical colleges, and now Dental council is also prescribing medical persons only for these teaching posts. Just because MD persons are lacking, colleges should not end up in filling non medical graduates as it will destroy the medical education framework in first year MBBS, a foundation year in medical sciences, and the medical career. Improper foundation or irrelevant overburdened non medical teaching by such unqualified medical teachers may not bring medical expertise in the student, as non medicals predominate some departments. There is no actual shortage of Medical faculty and it is a simple maldistribution, of medical faculty.
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The Against Inclusion Of MSc Phd Qualified Persons as Medical and Dental College Teachers petition to Indian public, government of India, World Health organisations, Indian newspapers, World newspapers was written by aimdda and is in the category Education at GoPetition.