When I was a Medical student in the ’60s there were few textbooks and few Medical periodicals, and our teachers were the best treasure of knowledge to cherish and remember, their idealism and principles, have kept us a long way in our careers. India has progressed a long way with the privatization of Medical Education, as the resources are inadequate to fund the Government run Institutes to the Modern needs of Society. Privatization did both good and bad, producing many eminent Doctors who could not be accommodated in Government-run Institutes, produced bad Doctors. Not interested in Medicine and with no ethics in practice.
The policies regarding teaching and training often remain the same, practically with few changes in the last 3 decades. The biggest problem in medical education today is an old one: There is too much to know, and not enough time to learn it. The problem is more acute…
