Hi Jose I know what Rajan said, among other things, that, compared to the PhD, the "MBBS is a walk in the park". This is the specific point that I focused on as Rajan was explicitly suggesting that the PhD was considerably more demanding in rigour and effort investment than the incredibly broad requirements for an MBBS.
My experience in supervising high quality PhDs in a UK university and in acting as an external examiner for the MPhil and PhD, nationally and internationally (including the Caribbean incidentally), and simultaneously noting what MBBS people have to do with examples at home, no less, provided me a close insight into what I was talking about. Am I to take it that you possibly just might have had similar experience yourself? There is absolutely no spin in what I said but by adding "in isolation" to Rajan's sentence, you could be well accused, if we bothered to do so, of putting in some spin yourself! There is no need to be astounded by what I wrote Jose. In my long UK academic career I have written in much the reasonably coherent and lucid way as I write on Goanet except for the much needed referencing etc for academic material. If my fellow academics and publishers of books and academic papers find my writing style acceptable, as well as fellow Goanetters who have commended my writing INCLUDING YOU INCIDENTALLY, your current little hair-splitting quibble with what I expressed about Dr Rajan is rather too minuscule to be concerned about as was also the same, in the recent discussion on the need for toilets in Goa that, I am sure you will recall. Cornel DaCosta --- "J. Colaco < jc>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > jc's comment: > > I submit that Rajan did NOT state that "the "MBBS is > a walk in the > park" ....in isolation. > > What Rajan stated was that (I am paraphrasing here > ...original > attached infra) in COMPARISON to the rigours > (rigors) of obtaining a > PhD, obtaining "the "MBBS is a walk in the park". > > I absolutely and utterly agree with Rajan.
