“Don’t think about hiring ghost faculty”, warns MCI. Is MCI stricter than ever before?
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is going to conduct surprise inspections to review the standard of medical colleges in the country. It will be giving approvals only to those institutions that have full-time faculty.
Several complaints of colleges ‘borrowing’ staff at the time of inspection had been brought to the regulatory body’s notice. MCI president Dr Jayashri Ben Mehta, said to TOI,
“We will put an end to this by conducting more inspections and ensuring only those colleges that have full-time faculty and the required number of students, get approvals”
The main issue causing this is the shortage of faculty. With the government’s plan to increase the number of seats in government medical colleges and to set up high-end tertiary care AIIMS-like institutions in different states, the shortage of faculty is only bound to increase. The MCI is looking into the shortage of faculty in many colleges across the country, and is planning raise the retirement age of faculty from 70 to 75.
“2015: The year which saw MCI taking several strict actions and critical decisions.”
- Earlier in February, 11 doctors were suspended as they were allegedly sponsored an International holiday trip to London and Scotland, by Intas Pharmaceutical Company, as a beneficiary act for prescribing medications.
- MCI recently made a move to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to track medical college doctors and make sure they stay till closing time.
- In March, 7 ghost doctors from AP and Telangana who had their names as teaching/hospital faculty at a private medical institute in Puducherry only to gain monetary benefits, were debarred.
- Also, the MCI permanently debarred the erring principal of JSS Medical College, Mysore, Dr. H. Basavanagowdappa, from occupying any post in any medical college.
- Now, the MCI is also planning to revise the medical curriculum for students after 60 years.
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