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8 out of 10 doctors say Indian medical education system is in doldrums
Eight out of ten doctors polled have said that the medical education system in India needs to become more professional and less fraudulent.
New Delhi: Eight out of ten doctors polled have said that the medical education system in India needs to become more professional and less fraudulent.
Out of a total of 1760 doctors polled, a whopping 84.6 percent of them agreed that the current system of medical education is flawed and discourages young minds. Only 13.6 percent described it as encouraging, while 1.7 percent stood divided.
Dr. Sumer Sethi, Director, DAMS, said, "You cannot keep training younger generation using training methodology made decades before they were born. World has changed in the internet era and our medical schools still are following the classical approach and are not utilizing the connectivity or technology available. Promoting inquisitiveness and research is another area where the medical educators should take the lead."
The results clearly point out that there is a huge dissatisfaction amongst the medical community regarding the current education system that needs radical changes.
Safdarjung Hospital Professor, Dr. Chintamani, said the current medical education system can be described in two phrases, i.e confusing and sans vision.
"Since the time students starts preparing for PMT till they becomes a specialist or a super specialist they are in a blind rat race. And it doesn't matter who the winner or loser is because everyone ends up being a rat. The whole system is exam oriented, either at the exit or at the entry. Where is the joy of studying medicine in that? Moreover this does not prepare the students to face the real world. The whole system is flawed from the beginning and needs to be changed," he added.
Commenting on this, Nipun Goyal, Co-founder Curofy said, "Indian Medical Education System is disfunctioning and that's an open secret. The poll results showed us the growing discontent in medical community regarding it. Radical overhauling of the system is the need of the hour."
