Dont lower standards of medical education by allowing non-medical teachers, IMA appeals to Mandaviya

The Non-Medical teachers have organised as an association and filed a suit in the Supreme Court against the NMC's decision. The court has asked the ministry and NMC to clarify this to the court in the coming hearing in July.

The Indian Medical Association has shot a letter to Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Health Minister requesting for the appointment of only medical postgraduates as teachers in medical colleges. The NMC is looking at the option to allow Non-Medical Teachers in medical colleges.

IMA has appealed to the NMC and Ministry to maintain a high standard of medical education to produce the best doctors in the country and not to relax the high standards set by NMC.
The doctors association has requested Health Minister to resist the appeal of non-medical graduates and allow only medical postgraduates as eligible candidates for appointment in the Medical colleges to uphold the CBME Syllabus with quality.

The association has stated that Non-Medical postgraduates’ faculties continuing in Medical College shall be adjusted within the 15% limit already notified by the NMC. “We do hope, in the interest of quality and comprehensive empowerment, that the Ministry will allow the NMC's stand on TEQ to be implemented,” the letter reads.

Last year, the Central Government asked the National Medical Commission to reinstate some sections of the TEQ 1998 thus allowing 30 to 50 per cent Non-Medical Teachers like before.

NMC has stated that as per the old regulations of MCI on teacher eligibility and criteria, the non-medical Postgraduates in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology and Pharmacology were appointed as faculties in Medical Colleges, to a maximum of 30% of total faculty strength, as there were not enough medical postgraduates in these departments.

“However, due to the efforts of the present central Government of India, hundreds of medical graduates (MBBS) have qualified for their postgraduate studies in paraclinical subjects such as Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and pharmacology, and hence the NMC has passed an order titled TEQ in Medical Institution Regulation 2022 and notified that only 15% of the faculties shall be non-Medical Postgraduates in these departments,” IMA letter reads.

The Non-Medical teachers have organised as an association and filed a suit in the Supreme Court against the NMC's decision. The court has refused to entertain it and advised the ministry and NMC to clarify this to the court in the coming hearing in July.

IMA has stated that when thousands of postgraduate medical teachers are available in the paraclinical field, it is not advisable to compromise with the standard of medical education by allowing non-medical teachers who have no knowledge of Applied Medicine and the undergraduate curriculum of MBBS to teach them on this subject.

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