MEdRC plans to float a virtual health university

A pioneer and thought leader in enabling digitisation of healthcare education in the country, it plans to float the virtual varsity in next five years

Redefining Medical Education Through Technology

Dr Damodar Bachani Director, Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, New Delhi […]

Need for Adoption of ICT in Medical Education

Indian medical education should imbibe updated technology in clinical as well as non-clinical areas By Experts Group, Healthcare Practice, Frost […]

Crack the Code of Poor Healthcare

India has a scope of looking beyond the formal public healthcare focused medical education, says Santanu Mishra India is the […]

Medical Education

Aiming for more Equitable Distribution Health Survey and Development Committee (Sir Joseph Bhore), 1946, paved the way for developing the […]

Go the Distance

[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] While we celebrate the spirit of Millennium Development Goals world over in the context of health indicators

Reaching masses

[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] The only way to make healthcare affordable is to create a massive education network, and this should encompass infrastructure for training of Medical, Dental, Paramedical and Nursing students

“We lack in skill-set training” : Dr S Kumar, Dean – MS Ramaiah College

Dr S Kumar, Dean, MS Ramaiah College, believes to bridge the gap between the rural-urban education systems by adopting a single national integrating system. In conversation with Shally Makin, he shares the need to address the rural healthcare system to be of utmost importance

Gujarat proposes to add 500 seats in medical colleges

Gujarat Government asked for opening up three new medical colleges in the state but the proposal never got passed.

K. K. Talwar appointed as the chairman of MCI

The new Board of Governors for the Medical Council of India (MCI) has appointed Cardiologist Dr. K.K. Talwar as the Chairman.

MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE MELTING POT : Prof M S Valiathan, Padma Vibhushan, National Research Professor, Government of India

[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Prof M S Valiathan, a reputed cardiac surgeon, and a pioneer to establish the concept of merging medical education and technology, shares his views and proposes recommendations on the current structure of medical education in India.

Union Health Ministry approves rural medicine course

[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Union Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has approved the Bachelor for Rural Medicine Course (BRMC), giving all states the choice to adopt it. Minor changes are being made in the proposed course and the proposal has been sent to the Medical Council of India (MCI).

IITs receive a flak on offering medical courses

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) plan to start medical education has been put on hold as the health ministry has disapproved of it.