MCI principally approves bridge course of MBBS after BDS


By Vikas Vaidya



Accepting the proposal of Dental Council of India (DCI) in principle for allowing bridge course for students of Batchelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) to do three year MBBS, Medical Council of India (MCI) has constituted Joint Study Group (JSG) to specify the guidelines to run the course. The Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chairman of Academic Committee of MCI has chalked out the modalities on which the work is to be done.
Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar, DCI President informed that DCI had brought out a regulation of allowing a student to go for a three years’ condensed course of MBBS after BDS. This will qualify them to also practice general medicine. He was in Nagpur for 42nd Annual Congress of Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India and Scientifically Sponsored Meeting by EACMFS being held at Empress Palace.
When contacted Dr Vedprakash Mishra about the development of bridge course, he said, “DCI had sent a draft regulation to MCI. It was sent to academic committee under my Chairmanship for review. We reviewed it. We pointed out certain things. Accordingly a Joint Study Group of representatives from MCI and DCI was formed and I was made Chairman. A meeting to this regard was conducted recently.”
Dr Mishra further said, “The curriculum proposed by DCI is old so we have to modify it. Secondly, MCI has proposed new competency based integrated course that was adopted by council and approved by Government of India. This bridge course proposed by DCI can be included in this integrated one provided that competency need to be incorporated. The contents of MBBS course that are taught to BDS students should need to be find out to get them excluded from the new bridge course.”
The another aspect pointed out by Dr Mishra is this bridge course has not mentioned the point of internship. As the MBBS student has to do internship so the student doing this bridge course need to go for internship of one year. Since BDS is regulated by DCI and MBBS by MCI, the question arises that who would run this bridge course. Dr Mishra committee will study all these modalities for Post-BDS-MBBS bridge course to evolve operational guidelines. Dr Mishra said, “This proposal is good enough.”
The committee will be headed by Dr Vedprakash Mishra as Convenor while Dr Keshvan Kutti Nair, Dr R K Sharma will be other members.

Dr Majumdar emphasizes on quality


Dr Dibyendu Majumdar, President of Dental Council of India (DCI) has been trying to stem the mushrooming of dental colleges in the country. He wants that new Dental colleges should come up with assurance of quality. “When I took over as President the number of colleges were 296. In last 6 years the number rose to 310. This is my second term and we did not compromise with the quality. In fact 10-12 colleges faced closure as they could not maintain the quality aspect,” said Dr Majumdar. What is the use of more colleges without any quality education and employment?, says Dr Majumdar.
DCI introduced forensic medicine as a subject in BDS degree course. Dr Majumdar said that DCI was planning to start fellowships in cleft palate, trauma so that dentists would have that expertise.

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