New Indian Law: Re-registration of Doctors Every Five Years

Tucked away at the end of this article is this paragraph..

" The commission has also recommended converting the Medical Council of India, Nursing Council of India and Rehabilitation Council of India into a professional association with the power to conduct nationwide examinations, minister of state for health and family welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said.

The new body would also regulate the fee structure in private medical colleges and revamp continuing medical education (CME) and re-registration of doctors every five years based on evaluation of credit earned through CME."

Exams are a necessary evil..

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SC/ST Quota in MBBS and BDS for All India Seats

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" Seats in government medical and dental colleges across the country that are under the all India quota are filled up on the basis of the all India entrance examination....

Health Ministry has issued directions to the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to implement 15 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes and 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribes in the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)."

Prepare to work harder..

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Visible Body: Online 3D Human Anatomy Model

The Visible Body is the best website that I have come across to learn human anatomy by interacting with a three dimensional human model.

After the free registration, the model has to be downloaded. This is a one off thing and will take quite a while depending on your internet speed. Only Internet Explorer is supported right now.

Once the model has been loaded, you can rotate it in any direction, zoom in/ zoom out, isolate required structures, make structures transparent/invisible. You can also add or remove entire systems.

Overall a very good resource for those who are simply just not satisfied with the line diagrams in Chaurasia and need to play around to make sense of it.

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Unhappy Doctors and The Great Lie

This is from a ongoing discussion in med blogs.


Edwin Leap, starts the discussion with the post titled "Why are doctors so unhappy?".

He says

"I believe physicians are unhappy because they believed the great lie.

.. The lie was this: ‘if you become a doctor, your profession of medicine will be all you need for happiness and fulfillment.’ In short, physicians learned to validate themselves by way of a profession.

The problem is, that will always fail. Medicine is a wonderful profession; and also a job. No job should have, or can have, the power to be everything to any of us."

He goes on to say that doctors need validation somewhere besides medicine. He says he has found it in his religion.



And Graham, a medical student, responds


"I believe my generation of physicians never grew up with a great lie.

.....We want to have free time outside of our careers. We want to have families and relationships. Sure, we’re ready to make sacrifices, but we weren’t told a lie–or maybe we just never believed it."


Did you believe ?

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Rank List of Karnataka PGET - 2008 (Medical PG)

Today the Provisional marks list of Karnataka PGET - 2008 (Medical PG) was released. I copied the page to a spreadsheet and messed around till I got the rank list. Since these marks are provisional, the list is tentative. When two or more students score the same marks, the rank is assigned depending upon several factors like number of attempts in UG exams, marks scored in UG exams. Since I do not have these data about individual students, I have given the ranks as a interval.

Marks Scored Rank (Starts from - Ends at)

172 (Highest) 001 and 002
170-- 003 and 004
169-- 005 to 008
168-- 009 to 015
167-- 016 to 023
166-- 024 to 033
165-- 034 to 047
164-- 048 to 060
163-- 061 to 074
162-- 075 to 089
161-- 090 to 110
160-- 111 to 152
159-- 153 to 183
158-- 184 to 217
157-- 218 to 257
156-- 258 to 304
155-- 305 to 345
154-- 346 to 397
153-- 398 to 461
152-- 462 to 517
151-- 518 to 581
150-- 582 to 659

I have the whole rank list sorted till the last rank. I will upload the rest if I find the time.

ನಿದ್ದೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು.

Update: Click on the link below to download the whole list. It is a tentative. People who have scored the same marks has been arranged alphabetically for convenience. But in the actual official rank list it will be arranged based on the number of attempts and aggregate marks in UG Exams.

Rank List PGET - 2...

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