Doctors are just as offshoots of a tree called as society. They essentially are the same as rest of the society. It is a specialized branch of tree which helps other offshoots of tree to save others. As part of same tree, they resemble the parent society, of which they are part. Society needs to choose and nurture a force of doctors carefully with an aim to combat for safety of its own people.
Apple tree will have apples and musk melons plant will grow muskmelons only. One should not expect apples to grow on muskmelon stem. If society has failed to demand for a good and robust system, failed to save them, it should not rue scarcity of good doctors. Merit based cheap good medical education system is the need of the society. This is in interest of society to nurture good doctors for its own safety.
Therefore the quality of doctors who survive and flourish in such system will be a natural consequence of how society chooses and nurtures the best for themselves.
Imagine, an opportunity is available to a patient, to decide the doctor as based on his route or marks for entry into medical college. Whether patient will like to get treated by a doctor, who secured 20% marks, 30 % marks or 60% marks or 80% marks for medical college. Even an illiterate person can answer that well. But strangely for selection of doctors, rules were framed so as to dilute the merit to the minimum possible. So that a candidate who scores 15-20 % marks also becomes eligible to become a doctor. What is the need to dilute and shortlist around half a million for few thousand seats? Answer to that is simple. To select and find only those students from millions, who can pay millions to become doctors?
If the society continues to accept such below par practices, it has to introspect, whether it actually deserves to get good doctors. Paying the irrational fee of medical colleges may be unwise idea for the candidates, who are not from strong financial backgrounds. But at the same time unfortunately, it may be a compulsion and entrapment for students, who have entered the profession and there is no way forward. So children have to be careful while choosing medical careers from the beginning.
NEET Tail-Enders Jump Queue, Grab Medical Seats
NEET Tail-enders Jump Queue, Grab Medical Seats
MUMBAI: MBBS aspirants who missed out in the initial rounds of seat allotment and pinned their hopes on vacant NRI quota seats have been bested by students at the tail end of the NEET qualifying list helped by NRI sponsors. Overnight, close to 152 aspirants, many of them with ranks in six digits, have submitted documents, including a certificate from the consulate concerned, to prove that their education will be sponsored by an Indian based abroad. Aspirants with much higher scores, who were banking on the addition of vacant NRI seats to the relatively cheaper management quota — the fee differential can be as much as Rs 25 lakh-35 lakh — have been done in by a minor clause in the fingerprint. A medical college in Maharashtra has, in fact, already allotted a seat to a NEET qualifier placed 267th from the bottom in a list stretching into several lakhs. When registration for the all-India mop-up round began on March 10, several Indian candidates had applied to convert to NRI status. The medical counselling committee gave such students time from noon on March 11 to 6pm the next day to change their nationality from Indian to NRI. However, candidates wrote to the NMC asking for their nationality to be converted in the last leg of the admission process, presumably after all other options to secure a seat had been exhausted. “The NMC was forced to open that window. According to a 2017 Supreme Court judgment, a candidate can change his or her nationality at any point,” said Dr Pravin Shingare, former head of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research. NRI seats, which cost Rs 40 lakh-60 lakh per year — 4-5 times more than those in the management quota — and had no takers until last week, were now suddenly in demand and filled by candidates with rock-bottom scores. At Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni (Maharashtra), the last management seat was filled by rank 83,817 while the last NRI seat went to rank 8,72,911. At Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar, the last management seat was allotted to rank 86,416 and its last NRI seat to rank 8,76,357. This scenario has played out in medical institutes across the country. Rank holder 71,474 had named MGM College as his first choice in the mop-up round. He didn’t get a seat, but a candidate more than 8 lakh ranks below at 8,73,286 has got lucky, thanks to the clause which allows a student to abruptly change his/her nationality in the midst of the admission process. Hence, of the 19 vacant NRI seats at MGM that should have been converted to the general category, according to the NMC notification, not a single one eventually remained vacant.
Our society fails to develops a robust system of choosing and nurturing good doctors and therefore itself responsible for decline in standards of medical profession. A famous axiom “as you sow so shall you reap” has an application to health system, Government and Public as well in this scenario, so people should not rue scarcity of good doctors.
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