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New courses for graduate doctors

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, FEB. 12. Opening up new options for graduate doctors, the National Board of Examinations, an autonomous organisation under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, today announced a series of new courses to be introduced from this academic year.

The president of the National Board of Examinations, A. Rajasekaran, unveiled postgraduate courses in family medicine and five more dental specialities — periodontics, oral medicine, oral pathology, community dentistry and periodontal and preventive dentistry — to be introduced this year onwards.

Courses are also being introduced for post-doctoral fellowship courses in sub specialities in areas including critical care medicine, spinal surgery, minimal access surgery and human genetics.

Also, one-year certificate courses are being introduced at the post-doctoral level including infectious diseases, reproductive and child health, sports medicine, arthroscopy and sleep medicine and allied disorders.

Announcing the entire gamut of programme in the Capital today, Prof. Rajasekaran said: "The introduction of the new course in family medicine is in keeping with the larger objective of providing physicians to areas that did not have them previously and taking the burden off super specialists who in the country also treat ailments that should be handled by primary health care providers. On successful completion of DNB (family medicine) the candidates will be eligible to join the proposed post-doctoral certificate course in diabetology, geriatrics, pain and palliative care, emergency medicine, maternal and child health and infectious diseases."

Probably for the first time the Board is also looking seriously at the shortage of teaching staff in the area of basic sciences including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology and forensic medicine.

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