What do you think about MCI new proposal Vision 2015?

Asked by kritikagupta (4

) February 24th, 2011

Medical Council of India recently developed a proposal called as ‘Vision 2015’. As told by them, this has been done to reform the Medical education the country. The way I see it, nothing seems to be wrong with the existing UG medical education and the proposed UG medical education is moving away from global standard too. A Medical student has to undergo so many years of study for a plain reason that when a patient walks over to be examined, the Doctor should be able to advice him on the issue.

The attempt to introduce elective subjects will lead to confusion as doctors may be different from each other. Medical education is intended to give all inclusive training to bring out a complete doctor in a student. Every aspect of medical science is important. So, the very concept of introducing elective subjects does not hold good in medical science. What MCI has proposed will only result in half baked Doctors and it will create a lot of chaos. The Field of Medical Science is ever expanding and we cannot have doctors who are only adept with the basic’s to handle strong cases.

Instead of increasing the Duration of the MBBS course (as Medical science is increasing by the day), Vision-2015 is reducing the duartion of the course!!

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Based on what I have learned about it I can’t tell if it is an attempt to get more people interested in medicine by giving them the idea that they will be through with their studies and out of classes quicker, or a cost saving measure. If the student can shave half a year off the cost of going to school I don’t know how much that would be.

In the long run I believe it will produce fewer doctors because many will not be able to pass the exam, seeing there is only one at the end of 4 years. Those who do most likely will be the cream of the crop by having natural ability to retain or compensate for that large gap and remembering all that info. I do believe it will lay ground for a cottage industry of medical “cracking schools” where med students will be crammed all 4 years of pertinent in a few weekends. I am not sure I would be comfortable with a doctor who had to cram all the knowledge in a short time span; I would wonder how much they really retained.

Having access to patients after the 1st year might be a good thing if done right. Nothing like hands on applications, it always presents stuff you never get in the book. Very strict supervision would be

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