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MCI team inspects medical college

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Medical council teams' recommendation to enhance clinical experience of junior doctors

Thiruvananthapuram: A three-member team from the Medical Council of India (MCI), which was here on a two-day inspection of the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital (MCH), has recommended that a residency system for post-graduate medical students be introduced for providing 24-hour expert medical care to patients and for enhancing the clinical experience of junior doctors.

The team, headed by MCI zonal inspector C.A. Desai and Professor of Microbiology at Lady Harding Medical College Gita Mehta and Deputy Director of Medical Education, Chennai, K. Sukumar as members visited the hospital.

The Medical College authorities termed the inspection a `routine affair' as Thiruvananthapuram MCH has always had all facilities as well as student-faculty ratio as stipulated.

This is not the case with other Government MCHs in the State, some of which has been plagued by staff shortage or infrastructure deficiencies. This is not the first time that the MCI has made this recommendation. However, the Government has never been too keen on implementing this suggestion as it involves additional financial commitment. A committee set up by the Government, chaired by the then Director of Medical Education, P.A. Aleykkutty, too had endorsed the residency system but the committee's recommendations were never implemented.

According to a senior doctor at the MCH, more than an increased stipend, one major hurdle in the way of implementing the residency system was finding campus accommodation for nearly a thousand junior resident doctors.

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