The Indian Medical Association has sought the urgent intervention of the Health Ministry to ensure that only medical postgraduates be considered as eligible candidates for appointment in the medical colleges to uphold the competency-based medical education (CBME) Syllabus. It also wants that non-medical postgraduates’ faculties continuing in Medical College be adjusted within the 15% limit already notified by the National Medical Commission.
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In its letter, on July 19, to the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the Association’s national president Dr. Sharad Kumar Agarwal said that as per the old regulations of MCI on teacher eligibility and criteria, non-medical postgraduates in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology and Pharmacology were appointed as faculties in Medical Colleges, to a maximum of 30% of total faculty strength, as there were not enough medical postgraduates in these departments.
