Rigorous residency training is essential for a budding HCP, but what if it costs a student his/her wellbeing? In India, postgraduate (PG) medical students are reported to work for about 100 hours a week without a break! To add to it, ragging in medical colleges, though illegal, continues to affect the psychosocial wellbeing of many Indian medical students. Did you know? Around 200 ragging incidents were reported in the last five years.
Medical students’ condition in Maharashtra In Maharashtra, 14 medical students committed suicide in the past five years. Among them, 11 were PG medical students. The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) has claimed that long work hours, a punitive system that forces medical students to pay a penalty of Rs. 10 lakhs to drop out from the course, and importantly, a hostile work environment created by toxic seniors are the major reasons…
