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  • CBSE invites applications for AIPMT.

    The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has invited applications for the All India Pre-Medical/Dental Test (AIPMT) for admission to 15 per cent of the merit seats in the MBBS and BDS course in medical and dental colleges in India, except in Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

    Applications may be submitted online through the website www.aipmt.nic.in till January 25 without late fee. Applicants should be Indian citizens of age 17 to 25 as on December 31, 2012. The upper age limit is relaxed by five years for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes. Those who have passed Plus Two with physics, chemistry, and biology or biotechnology with minimum 50 per cent marks (40 per cent for reserved sections) taken together for these three subjects and have passed in all subjects, including English, separately are eligible to apply. Those appearing for the examination in 2012 may also apply.

    Detailed eligibility criteria are available on the website.The application fee is Rs.1,000 (Rs.550 for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and those physically challenged). Instruction for applying online can be had from www.aipmt.nic.in/aipmt/online/instruction.aspx

    Take a printout of the confirmation page, affix two recent photographs in the specified box and sign, and send the confirmation page, along with the demand draft for the application fee, to the Deputy Secretary (AIPMT Unit), Central Board of Secondary Education, Shikshakendra, 2, Community Centre, Preet Vihar, Delhi – 110 301 by registered or speed post so as to reach there on or before February 2. If the online application is submitted from January 26 to February 8 with the first late fee of Rs.500, the last date is February 15, and from February 9 to 24 with the second late fee of Rs.1,000, March 2. There will be preliminary and final examinations. The preliminary examination — one paper having 200 objective-type questions from physics, chemistry and biology — will be held on April 1. In Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi will be the test centres. Those who are qualify in the preliminary examination will be called for the final examination to be held on May 13 at the selected centres, including Kochi.

    Source : The Hindu

  • Panel bats for hiking UG, PG medical seats.

    The standing committee on health for the 12 th five year Plan has proposed adding 18,000 additional undergraduate medical seats, and nearly 11,000 post-graduate seats between 2012 and 2017.

    In its report to the Union health ministry, exclusively available with TOI, the panel has recommended for the increase of undergraduate medical seats from 41,569 to 66,000 and PG seats from 20,868 to 31,000. It has proposed setting up of 30 new medical colleges with public financing in states that need them the most. It has recommended setting up of 132 Auxiliary Nursing Midwifery (ANM) and 137 General Nursing Midwifery (GNM) schools through public financing with a focus on under-serviced areas and starting paramedical education courses in 149 government medical colleges and paramedical institutions in 26 states.

    Trained and competent human resource, the committee says, is the foundation of an effective healthcare system. India produces 30,000 doctors, 18,000 specialists, 30,000 AYUSH doctors, 54,000 nurses, 15,000 ANMs and 36,000 pharmacists annually. “Yet, geographic and rural-urban imbalance exists in training and availability of human resource. Medical colleges are unevenly spread across the states with wide disparities in the quality of education. Only 193 districts of the total of 640 districts have a medical college – the remaining 447 districts do not have any medical colleges,” the report says. Against a World Health Organization recommended norm of 23/25 health workers (doctors, nurses, midwives) per 10,000 population, India has 19 health workers per 10,000 (doctors-6, nurses and midwives-13).

    Besides, there are 7.9 lakh registered AYUSH practitioners (6.5 per 10,000). The urban density of doctors and nurses is four and three times, respectively, as compared to rural areas. “Such a skewed distribution results in large gaps in demand and availability, particularly for governmental health care facilities. The 12 th Plan aims to expand facilities for medical, nursing and paramedical education, creating new skilled health worker categories, enable AYUSH graduates to provide essential healthcare by upgrading their skills through bridge courses, establish a human resource health management system for improved recruitment, retention and performance; put in place an incentive structures, create career tracks for competence-based professional advancement and create a independent and professional regulatory environment,” the report adds.

    The committee has proposed that AYUSH doctors can be trained through short bridge courses to manage essential healthcare at primary care settings. Medical officers deployed in primary and secondary health facilities need to be multi-skilled so that the can manage “day to day conditions relating to obstetrics, anesthesia, psychiatry, pediatrics including neonatology, trauma care.” The ministry has been told to orient medical education to needs of the society, starting with examining the curriculum of medical education so as to equip graduates to independently function as general practitioners, possess hands-on skills, and be sensitive to issues like social determinants of health, equity, essential medicines and generics.

    Source : Times of India

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