The Medical Council of India(MCI) has amended the existing rules under ‘Number of Post-graduate students to be admitted’. MCI will increase the number of PG seats in Karnataka for the 2020-21 academic year. The MCI has also revised the teacher-student ratio from 1:1 to 1:3 students at the Professorship level.
The MCI has told the medical colleges to submit an application with regard to this change to receive approval for the next year. The PG teacher-student ratio for Clinical Subjects has been fixed at 1:3. For the government colleges and colleges with fifteen years of experience, the teacher-student ratio is 1:3 at the Professorship level. At the Associate Professor Unit Head level, it is 1:3 and at the Associate Professor level, it is 1:2. The minimum bed strength in the unit is fixed at 30.
In the case of private medical colleges, at the Professorship level the Teacher-student ratio is 1:2, at the Associate Professor Unit Head level it is 1:1 and at the Associate Professor level it is 1:1. The minimum bed strength is also fixed at 30. The same goes for other departments as well.
“It is necessary to increase medical seats and that will happen after the revision of teacher-student ratio. We have to send all information from all medical colleges to the MCI so that they can approve those many seats for the next academic year,” said Dr PG Girish, Director of Medical Education, Karnataka told Bangalore Mirror. “All this will vary from college to college and depend on the facilities and faculty available. We have 700-odd PG seats in government colleges now and this will change the numbers,” he added.
Source: Bangalore Mirror, Deccan Herald.