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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 7. Medical education in the country has been in the sick list for many years now and the curriculum has not kept up with the modern advances in medicine, M.S. Valiathan, the honorary advisor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education and the president of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), has said. He was inaugurating a workshop on `Gender Mainstreaming in Medical Education', organised by the Sree Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) here on Thursday. Much advance had been made in the field of cardio thoracic surgery, but the curriculum was much behind. There was a big gap in the current medical practice and what was being taught in medical colleges because those practising medicine were not involved in the preparation of the curriculum, Dr. Valiathan said.
Explosive growth
The explosive growth of medical colleges in the country and the deterioration of many eminent Government medical colleges were creating problems. The so-called five-star medical colleges in the country were not the places to teach medical students, he said. Gender has in recent times emerged as a big issue in the field of science. A committee appointed by INSA to study `Women in Science careers', in its report published six months ago, had found that while in 1950, there were only 11 per cent women enrolling for science subjects in universities, by 2000, this had gone up to 39 per cent. The Department of Biotechnology had 31 per cent women in science, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) had 27 per cent, while the laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) had only 13 per cent of women. The ICMR or the CSIR had never had a woman director general, Dr. Valiathan pointed out. Gender mainstreaming in medical education is an initiative of SCTIMST with assistance from McArthur Foundation. The project is intended to gender-sensitise medical students by incorporating the gender perspective in textbooks as well as by training a core group of medical educators in gender issues.
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