Indian Doctors..Made in China: Left in the lurch by MCI The parents of some of the students who did their medicine from Chinese universities met me today and informed that their children are facing the problem with the Medical Council of Indias eligibility exam results. This year, nearly 6400 students appeared for the MCI test and barely 0.4% could qualify in the results which were declared last week. I have requested the parents to form an association and give a written representation to the Prime Minister, Health Minister and the MCI and I will personally take this representation to New Delhi tomorrow. The students are in a fix now and some of them have passed in 2008 and still havent cleared the MCI eligibility test. When I asked them, they informed me that it is the governments policy not to encourage the Chinese doctors. If that is the case, the government and the MCI should have warned the students. Since, they have not done than, both the government and the MCI are responsible for this grave situation the students are facing today as they are seeing their future hanging in uncertainty at the mercy of the MCI. It is high time that the government should allow all the doctors who have got their degrees from China to practice in India and also allow them to pursue their higher education India. In the meantime, the government should announce a clear policy in this regard and guide the students accordingly. When I did a bit of research on this, I was informed that the problem is that China has degree and diploma recognition agreements with many countries maybe 50 or 60, especially in Europe but there are no bilateral agreements between China and India right now. For other countries, it is no problem. Even Americans study in China, and their degrees are recognized. I was informed that the Ministry of Education and the Scholarship Committee of China are working to establish bilateral degree recognition agreements with their Indian counterparts. An MCI official informed me that, any Indian student who receives a medical graduate degree from a foreign country must meet three conditions to be a registered medical practitioner in India, First, the students must pass MCIs Screening Test. Second, they must earn a medical degree from an institute listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools, published by the World Health Organization. Third, they must obtain the Eligibility Certificate from MCI according to the Eligibility Requirement for Taking Admission in an Undergraduate Medical Course in a Foreign Medical Institution Regulations, 2002. The legality of the test was challenged in the Indian courts and was upheld by the Supreme Court of India in 2009. This test has generated controversy with accusations that it is unfair and lacks transparency—for example, not allowing examinees to retain their question paper after examination, or not showing the exact marks or answer sheet upon appeal for failure. An appeal petition filed under RTI India to reveal the marks of an appealing student was not granted. This examination is held twice in year in JUNE and DECEMBER on the 3rd monday & tuesday of the month. The pass percentage is very low. MCI maintains that reason for such a low pass rate is because the medical education in foreign countries is not up to Indian standards.But students say the pass percentage is deliberately kept low to incite fear psychosis so that students do not opt for overseas education and rather fall pray to local poor private medical colleges so that they can earn crores in donation & part of it goes to MCI.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:52:08 +0000
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