MADURAI: First-year MBBS students at the Government Madurai Medical College were made to take the modified 'Maharshi Charak Shapath' oath instead of the conventional Hippocratic oath during the induction ceremony, after receiving their white coats on Saturday.
While state finance minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan and commercial taxes minister P Moorthy, who were on the dais, expressed shock, the directorate of medical education called it a "needless deviation" from protocol.
