There is a deep churning that is underway in India as far as training of medical undergraduates and postgraduates are concerned. The last six years of frequent changes brought about by the MCI, Government, private colleges and the courts are no less than an earthquake, the effects of which will be felt not now, but a few years from now. As we ruminate over this, the MCI has been dissolved and is run by an ad-hoc board of governors. It has been so since 2011 with at least three different boards managing the defunct Council.
In this interim, the entire admission apparatus has been shaken up by the NEET movement, the aftershocks of which are yet to die down. It's doubtful whether the stated purposes of NEET such as capitation, corruption, standardization has been achieved at all. NEET has only changed medical education from a skill acquisition process to a perennial, obsessive quest to…
