foreign educated medical doctors flunk Indian screening test exam.
- More medical education platforms such as Buzz4Health need to come up, platforms
- where doctors / medical students can collaborate through real medical cases
- and other continuous medical education content, thus
- providing an additional training for medical students
- To deal with rural healthcare problems, students must familiarise themselves with
- advancements in technology = proper healthcare - from a distance
- ?? Students should be trained on holistic, whole body healing
- alternative medicine and modern science.
- the government has prepared a draft Skill Training Curriculum so that such students can prepare for the exam through self-sustaining MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and Clinical Skill Labs etc.
- following countries are exempted from this test
- from the UK
- Australia, New Zealand,
- US and Canada .
- Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE)
- conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE).
- required to get a license to practice in India.
- Only four states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu - account for about
- 1.3 lakh out of nearly 2.4 lakh medical seats across India.
- Fake degrees = Indian Medical Association estimates 45 % of Indian medical practitioners-
- 700,000 doctors-to be unqualified and lacking formal training
- Indian Express report said, "India has approximately 300 medical colleges producing
- 30,000-35,000 graduates every year.
- there were 100 government medical colleges and 11 private medical colleges in 1980, now,
- the government schools have doubled- (now ~ 200)
- the private institutes have increased twenty-fold, (now ~220)
- private medical colleges must be built on at least 20 acres of land.
- Thus, many private colleges are built in rural areas
- healthy people are rounded up to pretend to be sick during inspections, so they can show they have enough patients to provide clinical experience to medical students.
- There are around 47,000 Indian doctors practicing in the US and
- around 25,000 in the UK. This makes India the largest exporter of doctors in the world
- rural government medical college in Ambajogai, Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Medical College, = student letter online alleges no clinics / lectures,
- students graduated "without even attending a single day." bribe officials to pass exams
- pigs and donkeys roamed around the unsanitary hospital conditions,
- A simple seat in Radiology can cost you multiple crores easily, which will only increase as you go for better colleges providing better placements
- 97,639 Indians appeared for Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE). in 7 years
- Of these, only 16,097 passed in seven years =
- 84 per cent Indians in the last seven years (2012-18), failed
- we have picked up only those countries from where
- at least 50 MBBS graduates took the FMGE between 2012 and 2018.
- Indian doctors from Russia and China comprised 51% of FMGE examinees.
- of 32,139 from China, only 4,609 managed to pass.- 14.4 %
- of 17,674 from Russia only 2,606 were able to clearFMGE 14.80 %
- 27 % of students from Nepal Ukraine Krygyzstan
- Pass Percentage - pass %
- Bulgaria 9.8 % Romania 9.82 % Azerbaijan 11.35 %
- China 14.4 % Russia 14.8 %
- Kyrgyzstan ~ !5 % Ukraine, ~17 % Nepal ~20 %
- Pakistan 30 % UAE 42 %
- Czech 66 % Sri Lanka 75 % Uganda 80 %
- France 100 % St marten 100 % Kenya 100 %
- post-graduate degrees from these countries are exempted from this test
- from the UK
- Australia, New Zealand,
- US and Canada .
- these students (in case they want to practice in India) also have to be recognised for enrollment as medical practioners in the respective countries.
- in cases of continuous poor performance in FMGE, it may lead to withdrawal of permission of MCI for the institution in the interest of Indian students," the MCI guidelines say.
