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Labour Ministry has decided that Employees' State  Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will continue to run its four functional medical colleges at Rajajinagar (Bangalore), K K Nagar (Chennai), Joka (Kolkata) and Rohini (Delhi).  However, the ministry has decided that ESIC will not to venture into the medical education sector and hence will not set up any new medical college in future.  Besides, the ministry has also decided that ESIC will also make its eight under-construction medical colleges functional, which are progressing at different stages.  "The Labour Ministry has decided to continue existing (functional and under construction) medical colleges. We will soon convene a meeting of the ESIC board to apprise the members about these decision," Labour Minister  Bandaru Dattatreya  said while addressing a press conference.  The ESIC in its 163rd board meeting held on December 5 last year, had decided to to exit from medical education...

Dr Jagdish Prasad is director general, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India. He has also served as the founder principal and professor & chief of cardiac surgery at  Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and medical superintendent of the associated Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. Dr Prasad did his MBBS and MS (General Surgery) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi in 1977 and 1981 respectively. He did his super specialization (MCh) in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery from KEM Hospital, Mumbai in 1985. He has also done DNB in cardiothoracic surgery in 1986. In recognition of his contribution to the field of medicine, particularly cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Safdarjung Hospital and economizing the cost of cardiac surgery, the President of India conferred on him the Padma Shree Award in 1991. In an exclusive interview with PG Times, Dr Jagdish Prasad shares his v...

Considering the counselling season is on full flow, here's a few tips on getting the best seat. 1. Branch > College ( in most cases ) because its near impossible to keep yourself motivated through the three year programme unless you are passionate enough to see it through. A PG programme will throw up unique challenges that you cant possibly envision or plan for hence the motivation must be there. 2. Speak to your seniors before you decide on anything. The y have the benefit of something that you just don't have "experience" and boy it matters a lot. Speak your mind, discuss your insecurities, throw it all out there and then incorporate those into making your call 3. Write things down. Whatever you find out, anyone tells you, keep noting them down. They become a point of reference and help in giving a definitive shape to your ideas 4. If your at the position where you think you wont one of the famed colleges, try opting for a good city while balancin...

  Seeking to end the ‘uncertainty’ among the students, Tamil Nadu Government today conveyed its conditional ‘in-principle’ consent to take over two medical colleges of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), which is exiting medical education from 2015—16. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister O Pannerselvam said the State would take over the colleges —— one here and another proposed in Coimbatore —— provided certain conditions, including the corporation bearing a capital cost of over  Rs.  570 crore, were accepted. He also wanted the seats to be shared at 85 per cent for state government and 15 per cent to All India quota as per the current norms for government medical colleges instead of 65 per cent to the state, 20 per cent to ESI employees and 15 per cent to the national pool. ESIC’s ‘sudden and drastic’ decision to exit from medical education had come as a rude shock to the students of the colleges —— one functioning in KK Nag...

The Supreme Court on Thursday put the ball in Centre’s court to take a call on providing reservation in appointment for faculty posts in speciality and super speciality posts in medical colleges including the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). “We clarify that it is for the Central Government to take a decision as to whether there should be reservation in speciality and super speciality posts,” a five-judge bench headed by justice H.L. Dattu said. The Centre had moved the apex court seeking review of a Constitution Bench judgement which had said it cannot take a view contrary to the one expressed in 1992 by a nine-judge bench in the Indra Sawhney case, also known as the Mandal case, that there could be no compromise with merit at super speciality stage. As soon as Additional Solicitor General L. Nageshwar Rao opened his arguments, the bench said the judgement makes it clear that the Centre has to follow the advice given in the Indra Sawhney case. ...

Starting this year, the Government of Punjab has decided to hold its own examination to fill PG medical seats. Since a couple of years, it was the All India Post Graduate  Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE) that students had to pass to get PG seats in the state medical colleges. However, it was observed that few students from Punjab were able to meet this criteria, resulting in the seats being occupied by students from other states. Recently, a meeting, attended by representatives of Punjab’s different medical colleges and other educational institutions, was held in which the chairperson was Husan Lal, Secretary, Medical Education. Soon, Mr Lal announced the decision to hold separate PG entrance exam and said that the decision was taken after consultation with principals of state medical colleges. In December last year, the AIPGMEE was held for the new academic session but now, those results would be used to fill 50% of the PG seats while the remaining 50% would be fi...

The Employees State  Insurance  Corporation (ESIC) has decided to shut its medical colleges as this is not its core function, leading to the students protesting the move here Monday. The corporation has expressed its inability to meet the objectives to establish medical colleges and training institutes to serve the insured and non-insured persons of the ESIC scheme. "The ESIC should exit the field of medical education entirely as it is not the core function of the ESIC and other objectives is unlikely to be met," said the order issued at an ESIC meet held Dec 4. It was also decided to hand over the ongoing medical colleges and other medical education institutions, having separate infrastructure, to state governments willing for such a transfer. Though it has been running hospitals under the scheme for the purpose, the ESI Act was amended in 2010 to allow it to set up medical colleges. Presently, 13 such institutions are in various stages of construction. Curre...