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Latest News |
| 17th
February 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Govt nixes MBBS course plan at IITs
Experts Want Tech Inst To Do What Its Best At
New Delhi: IITs will have to put their plan to start medical
education on hold as the health ministry has decided against
allowing them to start courses in medicine.
In a high-level meeting of experts, the health ministry
decided to write to the HRD ministry suggesting that IITs
should start courses on health information technology,
biomedical engineering and e-health rather than running
a hospital or starting MBBS courses . The health ministry
will ask IITs to partner with renowned medical colleges
like AIIMS and PGI (Chandigarh ) to jointly run these
new courses.
The Medical Council of India, which had come out in support
of IITs proposal to start medical degrees while talking
to TOI on Monday , did a volte face at the meeting. IITs
wanted to start MBBS courses in a couple of years and
wanted to be exempted from MCIs control . The MCI then
joined health ministry officials to staunchly go against
the proposal to let IITs even start an MBBS programme,
a source who attended the meeting told TOI.
Experts who attended the meeting said IITs should focus
on what they do bestengineering educationand that imparting
medical education wasnt IITs core domain . They added
that except IIT Kharagpur, which was planning to start
its own hospital and medical college on its premises,
all other IITs were planning to tie up with existing private
hospitals. Can a private hospital deliver the variety
of difficult cases required for under-graduate medical
education a ministry official asked.
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