Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> wrote Chacha Alfred: [1] I am not aware of the details of Dr. Abraham's role in de-recognizing the Medico Cirurgiao degree and instituting condensed M.B.B.S..
[2] As far as pursuing higher medical education in the U.S. is concerned, all foreign medical graduates have to pass qualifying exams, and redo residency training. Dr. Abraham was in no position to change that rule. =RESPONSE= re #1: I too have no idea of the role played by Dr Abraham in the de-recognition of the MC. I imagine, however, that all the professors (of the time) had a role while this topic was being discussed ....with the dominant professors having a dominant role. That having been said, IMHO, Dr Abraham was one of the best Profs we had at GMC. Some teachers are able to make boring subjects appear very interesting. Dr. Abraham made Pharmacology very enjoyable. (In similar vein, Prof Lexley Pinto-Pereira has a very good reputation with her students from the Univ of the West Indies. She too teaches Pharmacology) re #2: Chacha may have a point here. De-recognition of the MC meant that new MC graduates could no longer be registered by the Medical Council in Goa (or Maharashtra). This was, I believe, a pre-requisite for taking the ECFMG. They had to do the condensed MBBS. (Their immediate predecessors ...were registrable in Goa and were able to take the ECFMG) jc
