Why can't reporters ask some simple questions. MBBS exit exam

With the advent of internet and scant  editorial supervision we have  many reporters  simply  copying  official handouts as news articles.

For example in the article below.

The simple questions to ask are.

When is the Govt making it compulsory to register on an all India database of  doctors who are licensed.

When is the  Govt going to enforce that only licensed doctors can practice.

If there are AYUSH practitioners or faith healers or indigenous medicine men, ensure that they are not allowed to prescribe allopathic medicines ?

What will happen to the candidates who did not  get  pass percentage ?

How about SC/St candidates will they be allowed to pass with a lower percentage? If so where will they practice? Will they treat everyone  or only the politicians  who allow this ?

Exit exam for MBBS graduates on cards

Centre mulls test to see if good enough to practice

Why govt wants it

<![if !supportLists]>·         <![endif]>To see if MBBS graduates are good enough to practice

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 21

After rolling out the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical admissions this year, the government is mulling an exit exam for MBBS graduates from the next academic session.

The idea is to test MBBS pass outs for skills acquired through the course and see if they are good enough to practise at the end of the drill.

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The exit exam proposed from the 2017-18 academic session will be the first-ever exercise mandating MBBS graduates to attain minimum prescribed percentiles to be able to practice medicine. The license to practice is proposed to be given to only those medical undergraduates who cross the threshold of quality set in terms of marks attained in the exit test.

The catch is — Health Ministry is considering converting the already existing all-India PG medical entrance exam into a three-in-one test which will include the MBBS exit exam. “There will be no additional burden on MBBS students. The objective is to see if the graduate is good enough to practice medicine at the end of his course. We are, however, not proposing a new exam for MBBS exit. The existing all-India PG entrance exam conducted annually around November-end will be used for this purpose. The proposal is to use the PG exam for MBBS exit as also for testing foreign graduates who seek licenses to practice in India,” a Health Ministry official said. At present, there is a separate exam (Foreign Graduates Medical Exam) for foreign graduates seeking equivalence to practice medicine in India.

The idea is to do away with this and offer the PG medical entrance exam to foreign graduates as well.

A ministry source says: “The proposal is to have foreign graduates, Persons of Indian Origin and Overseas Citizens of India holding foreign medical degrees to take one test — the all-India PG entrance test — and become eligible to practice in India. One test will thus serve three purposes.”

The ministry’s argument behind using the PG test as the MBBS exit exam is that annually 95 per cent of MBBS pass outs anyway take the all-India PG entrance exam. 

“Those who secure a minimum 45 percentile in the PG entrance exam are eligible to apply for PG courses. This criteria can be fixed as the threshold for MBBS exit exam, which means graduates who touch this mark will be eligible to practice medicine,” a ministry official said.