Change in Teacher: student ratio increases Medical PG seats in State

By Vikas Vaidya

Medical Council of India (MCI) has increased the teacher:student ratio in medical colleges resulting in increase in Post Graduate medical seats in Maharashtra. The PG seats increased by 74. It has been decided to increase the teacher-student ratio from 1:2 to 1:3 for professors and 1:1 to 1:2 for associate professors (team leaders) to ensure more PG seats.
The MCI has given its nod to increase 74 seats to various post-graduate courses for the 2018-19 academic year in different medical colleges managed by the state.
The state directorate of medical education and research (DMER) intimated Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS).
Dr Dileep Mhaisekar, Vice-Chancellor of MUHS told ‘The Hitavada’ that MCI approved 74 PG seats. The university had proposed an increase of 100 seats for the 2018-19 academic year. With this increase of 74 seats, the total number of PG seats in government colleges has gone up to 1,564, added Dr Mhaisekar. There are 25 Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Maharashtra, including colleges being run by Brihanmumbai Municipal Council of which 23 are affiliated to MUHS.
The increase in PG seats being witnessed in all over Maharashtra. They include three in Mumbai, and one each in Pune, Nagpur, Solapur, Latur, Miraj, Aurangabad, Akola, Yavatmal, and Nanded have got additional seats. The maximum increase of 15 seats is for PG gynaecology course, followed by anesthesia (13) and paediatrics (10).
There is a good news for the aspirants of getting PG seats. The private medical colleges have agreed to join the PG admission process now. Earlier, only the hospital-based colleges had participated in the PG admission process due to fee related issues. Now, after consensus between the Fees Regulatory Authority (FRA) and private colleges, they will also join the process.
Moreover the recent decision by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reduce cut off percentile of National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions to medical Post Graduate (PG) courses by 15 percent will have an added advantage to the students. The Ministry’s had claimed that the decision would help 18,000 more students across the country to get admissions to these courses. Now the increased PG seats means more number of students would get the berth.
In India there are 27,000 PG seats. The rise in PG seats was witnessed in the year 2009 when the ratio of faculty to students changed. Now MCI has changed it further.

Important points


- After a series of meetings, the Fee Regulating Authority (FRA) had decided to allow private institutesto continue charging three and five times the regular fees for management as well as NRI quotas for the year 2018-19.
-Three weeks ago, the institutes demanded that they be allowed to charge five times the regular fees for all their quota seats (50% of the total seats), or exempt them from admissions altogether.
- The students who were refused admissions have been asked participate in the second round of admissions. They are also required to submit an affidavit to state common entrance test (CET) cell, declaring that they were refused admissions.

- State CET Cell released a circular in the last week of April making it clear that based on the same preferences originally filled by candidates, the original seat allotment list will be re-released and those students unhappy with their seats can cancel their admission and become eligible for the second seat allotment round. Those happy with their seats can retain their original seats.

 

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