Monday, May 3, 2010

read more Controversy mars Himachal PG Medical counseling

Shimla: Policy changes made in handing out admissions to post graduate (PG) courses in medical colleges has raised a controversy with some pointing fingers at involvement of a cabinet minister as his ward happens to be one of the beneficiaries under the changed norms.

Dismissing all such insinuations Jaishree Sharma, director medical education says, “the counselling done for PG courses was a transparent process and did adopt the procedure used by selectors of the all India post-graduate medical examiners.”

The controversy is policy changes made that suit direct candidates against those who have qualified the written examination but belong to General Duty Officers (GDO’s), a category of government in-service from 70 % of PG seats are reserved. This has been done to incentivise MBBS doctors to serve in rural areas.Read Full Story

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