Overseas medical degrees to be recognised

Here is a quick post to alert you to this article from The Hindu.

While this decision is in the right direction, the deal would have been sweeter had the agreement been mutual.



Overseas medical degrees to be recognised

"India will recognise postgraduate medical degrees offered by universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore soon.
“In three months’ time, doctors from these English-speaking countries will be recognised here, enabling them to work in Indian hospitals. At the moment, only unilateral recognition has been accorded. We are talking with these countries to urge them to grant bilateral recognition to enable Indian medical degrees to be recognised abroad,”

Hope to see the English speaking countries reciprocate this gesture.

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Ignorants Treating the Innocents

"Mission impossible: Docs won’t go rural"

This is the title of a news article in today's DNA paper.

The article begins thus:

"The Maharashtra Rural Health Mission is a non-starter, with MBBS doctors from cities and towns refusing to go to rural areas."

I wonder if the Government has spent a moment wondering why doctors don't exactly jump to grab this opportunity to work in rural areas.

Instead it comes up with a brilliant plan that solve the problem in one swell swoop.

"As a result, the government is forced to recruit 2,000 ayurvedic and unani practitioners to participate in the mission, which is actually an allopathic-based health scheme."

and

"Owing to the desperate situation, the mission has recruited 2,000 alternative health doctors to treat people in rural areas, irrespective of the fact that they are not trained in administration of allopathic drugs."


I will leave the discussion about the effectiveness of Alternative Medicine per se(Unani, Ayurveda and others) to another day. This is not about Allopathy Vs Others.

But consider what kind of treatment a doctor, from allopathic or alternative system, will give if he has no idea about the drug that he is prescribing to a patient. If a doctor in his private clinic, again allopathic or alternative, had prescribed drugs about which he had no idea , he would be considered a quack and would be sued. But if the same is done by our mai - baap Govt, it is not only legal but a perfectly reasonable response to the situation.

Considering the quality of the care that patients receive under these doctors, it is no wonder that the government is considering paying the patients to get treated by these doctors. Yes, you read it right. The government pays (the taxpayers, of course) money to the patients to get treated.

"The mission also thought of luring villagers into the scheme by rewarding them with money."

This news item should have been filed under the Wacky/ Bizarre news section as "Govt pays patients to get treated by quacks", were it not for the tragic outcomes that the patients have to bear.

I admire the government which, in its infinite wisdom and benevolence, has made it possible for the ignorants to treat the innocents. Don't you ?

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A TV Channel for Medical Students

From the Policy Wise Blog:

"Doordarshan, India’s national broadcaster has plans to launch a health channel. It is ostensibly meant to help medical students in India. The annual cost: 180 crores. The government will amend the Cable Television Netowrks(regulation) Act of 1995 to make it compulsory for cable operators to carry the channel."

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Dr. Goolge, MBBS !!

Google is preparing to enter health care in a big way with Google Health. Google Health seems to be a Electronic medical record, among other things, with a strong focus on the patient.

The first screenshots of Google Health have been posted at Google Blogoscoped blog.

As a fan of all things google, I am very happy that our case sheets and prescription will be better organized. If google makes a few bucks along the way, I don't mind.

More on Electronic medical records and case sheets later.

Update : The New York Times has has an article about Google health.

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Anatomy Lecture 01: Organization of Body

Here is the first lecture from the University of California, Berkeley. As I had mentioned in the introductory post, these are the live video recordings of real anatomy classes in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley





Watch the Second Video in this series

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Anatomy Classes from University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley is offering about 40 hours of Anatomy classes online for free to whoever is interested.These are the live video recordings of real anatomy classes in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

The website of University of California, Berkeley has this amazing sentence:

" Berkeley's academic departments consistently rank among the top five in the country. The faculty, renowned for both teaching and scholarship, currently includes seven Nobel Laureates"

The institution also has twenty four Nobel Laureates among its alumni.

The above two sentences leave no doubt about the 'renown-ness' of the institution.

India can lay claim on Nine Nobel laureates in 106 years. The list of 9 includes every Nobel prize winner who can somehow be associated with India; those born India and worked abroad, those born abroad and who worked in India.

At this rate India needs roughly 275 years to match the output of one US university. The stated time is on the assumption that that University of California, Berkeley does not produce a single Nobel prize winner in that period, which is as likely as pigs growing wings and starting to fly.

All this suggests to me that the educational system is deeply dysfunctional.

You don't think so ? You want to remind me something ?
Yeah, I know about the IITs and IIMs , and I remember 'Mera Bharath Mahan'. Thanks.


Anyway, enough about the depressing state of Indian educational system.

Here is what you can do sitting in India or studying in any good/bad/wicked medical college in India. If you have a fast internet connection, you can watch the whole anatomy course as conducted in University of California, paying absolutely nothing to anybody.

Whats more, you can even download it and watch it on your comp whenever you like.
What more could you ask for ? Lap it up.

If you have not realized it yet, you no longer have a valid reason to complain about the crappy Anatomy classes in your college.

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On Horses and Zebras.

"When You Hear Hoof beats, Think Horses, Not Zebras"

This is often quoted to remind medical students that when they come across a physical finding, it is prudent to attribute the finding to a common disease, the 'Horses', rather than to a rare disease, the 'Zebras'.

White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes ?

But recently, while working as an intern in the surgery department of a government hospital, I realized that a few of the diseases which looked like Zebras while I studied them in the textbook are actually Horses in real life.

While studying, the disease Tetanus was described in textbooks as disease on the retreat. It seemed that Tetanus had been all but conquered. All that remained to wipe it away from the face of earth was to choke off the dwindling cases of Tetanus in the newborn. Tetanus in adults got a cursory mention. In short, Tetanus looked like a Zebra, complete with stripes and hoofs.

But when I started my two month rotation in surgery, I started sighting Tetanus in adults on a regular basis. Not everyday but one or two cases every two weeks. Enough to make me reclassify Tetanus in adults as a Horse.


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