On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is the most laughable bullshit being foisted on Indians. You train a guy > to do high tech medicine and ask him to treat people in a primary health > center where te budget is Rs 50 per patient per year (or some such silly > figure) it's not going to happen.
Isn't that exactly what the Bachelor of Rural Medicine degrees were intended to solve? http://www.hindustantimes.com/Special-MBBS-to-create-more-rural-docs/Article1-462445.aspx http://www.deccanherald.com/content/43463/mci-finalise-rural-mbbs-course.html It's fairly uncontroversial to say that India has witnessed a gradual and at times even precipitous dilution of academic standards concomitant with the rise in the number of institutions granting advanced degrees. Instead of questioning the validity of this trend, the country treats these graduates as truly qualified for the roles they've been ill trained for. If MBBS graduates are anything like the engineering graduates that the country produces they will barely be equipped to work in a primary health care center for their preliminary years. I don't see the problem in devaluing the MBBS degree to the functional equivalent of a BRMS degree. Cheeni
