MCI to conduct national level test for PG medical entrance

The Medical Council of India (MCI) will for the first time hold an All India level examination for admission in post-graduate medical courses across the country early next year. According to MCI, the syllabus for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET-PG) will be that of MBBS and further information carrying relevant details in this regard would soon be put on its website. "The Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to Medical Post-graduate Courses across the country i.e. NEET-PG shall be held in Jan-Feb 2012 for admissions in the academic year 2012-2013," a notice issued by MCI said. "The Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) would be based on the MBBS syllabus as well as the knowledge that needs to be acquired during internship... The distribution of questions, model questions and method of tie breaking for ranking would be placed on the website in the due course," MCI said. The move assumes significance as MCI decision to hold a national level examination for admission in undergraduate and post-graduate courses was opposed by various stake holders. Whereas, several group of students had moved the Supreme Court supporting an All India level examination. After a brief legal battle, the apex court had in March this year held that the MCI will oversee the common entrance test each for undergraduate and postgraduate medical programmes following which the recent notification was issued. In general, an aspirant has to take over a dozen examinations for one medical seat despite facing problems like clash of dates and multiple fees. Various students' bodies have demanded single examination for PG medical entrance on the lines of All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE). Every year about 40,000 students are admitted to undergraduate programmes and some 19,000 for postgraduate courses, MCI officials said. As per official statistics, there are close to 300 private and government controlled medical colleges in the country.

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Single Cet from 2011-12

The Supreme Court on Monday gave an important clarification that will enable Medical Council of India (MCI) to go ahead with its plan to hold a single common entrance test (CET) for MBBS and post-graduation seats in all government and private medical colleges from next year, that is the 2011-12 academic session.


The bench clarified that "pendency of petitions will not stand in the way of MCI notifying the new regulations (proposing single CET) and others from challenging the notification (subsequently)".

This clarification will allow MCI to notify its regulations envisaging single CET for MBBS and PG courses in all medical colleges from 2011.

Once MCI issues the notification, there will be a single entrance examination each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 run by governments and 133 under private management. These colleges offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 seats for PG degrees.

Addressing the concern of state governments afraid of losing their quota in state medical colleges, MCI clarified that state quota would remain intact as `National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test' (NEET) would draw up a national merit list as well as state-wise ranking list for general category, SC, ST and OBC as well as physically challenged persons.

The MCI proposal had said, "In order to be eligible for admissions to MBBS courses for a particular academic year, it shall be necessary for a candidate to obtain minimum 50% marks in each paper of NEET held for the said academic year. However, in respect of candidates belonging to SC, ST and OBC, the minimum percentage of marks shall be 40% in each paper and for candidates with locomotory disability of lower limbs, it would be 45% in each paper."

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Single entrance test for MBBS from 2011

There will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country from 2011.

This important decision, taken by the Medical Council of India and accepted by the Union ministry of health, was conveyed to the Supreme Court, bringing huge relief to lakhs of aspiring doctors.

Earlier, students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to appear in at least five to six entrance tests for various colleges and worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.

But from 2011, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 for PG.

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Top 15 Medical Colleges in India

1 AIIMS Delhi
2 CMC Vellore
3 AFMC Pune
4 Kasturba Medical College Manipal
5 JIPMER Pondicherry
6 MAMC Delhi
7 Madras Medical College Chennai
8 Lady Hardinge Medical College Delhi
9 Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj MU Lucknow
10 BJ Medical College Pune
11 Amrita Inst of Medical Sciences Kochi
12 Bangalore Medical College Bangalore
13 St John’s Medical College Bangalore
14 Government Medical College Chandigarh
15 BJ Medical College Ahmedabad

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Topper of Mhcet-2009

Result of Mht-cet-2009 is declared today.
Topper of Mhtcet-2009 (Engineering) is Udit Chitaliya.
Topper of MhCet-2009 (Medical) is Shagun Shaha.

Result of MH-CET2009/MHT-CET-2009

MhtCet 2009/Mh-Cet-2009 for admissions to Medical(MBBS/BDS) and engineering colleges in Maharashtra was held today.Result of Mhtcet-2009 will be declared on 14th June 2009.
Click on the link to the result on left side bar of this page to find the result.

Date change for MHT-CET-2009

MHT-CET-2009 for admission to Medical courses in Maharashtra will be held on 12th May 2009 instead of 7th May 2009 as previously announced.

MH-CET-2009/MHT-CET-2009/ASSO-CET-2009

MHT-CET-2009/MH-CET-2009 for admission to Govt. Medical Colleges(MBBS/BDS/BHMS/BAMS) in Maharashtra will be conducted ON 7th May 2009.

Medical Common Entrance Test ( Asso-CET 2009) for MBBS BDS, BAMS, BPTh, BOTh & BSc-Nursing courses in the State of Maharashtra will be held on 24th May 2009 between 2 pm to 5 pm. The Availability of Application Forms and Information Brochure for Asso-CET 2009 for admission to 1st year MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BPTh, BOTh and BSc-Nursing courses will be declared in News papers and on this site.

Health and Cinema Festival-Pune

HEALTH & CINEMA FESTIVAL
Venue: FTII, Law College Road, Pune
Date: 05.12.2008 – 07.12.2008, 12.12.2008 – 14.12.2008

Can watching a film like The Departed help you cope with your own betrayals? Does The Queen make you think about your place in class and society? And can a movie like Letters From Iwo Jima teach you anything about war and conflict? Therapists recommend movies to help change the way we think and feel. A combination of health and cinema is quite the perfect prescription for both – the mind and the body. The Health & Cinema Film Festival is an effort to educate people under the guise of entertainment. The festival is organized by Dr. Mohan Agashe in association with FTII, Alliance Française de Poona and Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune. A total of nine films will be presented, that deal with the topic of health: There will be three films each from France, Germany and India. After the films there will be a discussion with experts from the health sector and at the end of the festival the experts will share their thoughts about health & cinema during a panel discussion.

Day and Date of Screening Name of the Film Timings
Friday, Dec 5th, 2008 Phir Milenge 18:00 hrs
Friday, Dec 5th, 2008 Les Temoins (The Witness) 20:00 hrs
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2008 Fickende Fische (Do Fish do it? 18:00 hrs
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2008 My Own Country 20:00 hrs
Sunday, Dec 7th, 2008 Zindagi Zindabad (Long live life!) 16:00 hrs
Sunday, Dec 7th, 2008 Panel Discussion 18:00 hrs
Friday, Dec 12th, 2008 Sur Mes Levres (Read my lips) 18:00 hrs
Friday, Dec 12th, 2008 Kroko 20:00 hrs
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2008 Chambre des Officiers (Officer’s Ward) 18:00 hrs
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2008 Jenseit der Stille (Beyond Silence) 20:00 hrs
Sunday, Dec 14th, 2008 Panel Discussion 16:00 hrs
Sunday, Dec 14th, 2008 15 Park Avenue 18:00 hrs

PGM-CET-2009/PGD-CET-2009

Entrance Examination for admission to Medical Postgraduate Courses (MD/MS/Diploma) and Dental Postgraduate Courses (MDS)will be held on Sunday 25th January 2009.

B.J. medical college donates Rs 42,484 to Bihar flood-affected

Students of the B.J. medical college donated Rs 42,484 to the Maitri group, an NGO working in Bihar for the rehabilitation of the floodaffected. The members of the collecting team have also urged students from other colleges in the city to come forward and raise funds for the affected people. Students, resident doctors and teachers of the medical college chipped in to raise the amount.

Topper of MH-CET-2008/MHT-CET-2008

Result of MH-CET-2008/MHT-CET-2008 is declared today.Ms Shefali Pradeep Parikh has topped the state merit list with 198/200 marks.Many congrats to her.
Updates regarding admission procedure of MBBS/BDS will be added soon.

Result of MH-CET-2008/MHT-CET-2008/ASSO-CET-2008

MH-CET-2008/MHT-CET-2008/ASSO-CET-2008 Maharashtra, for admission to medical courses (MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BHMS/BUMS/B.pth)was held in May 2008. Result is expected to be declared on 14th June 2008.You will find a link for the result on the right sidebar for this page.
A list of top medical colleges in Maharashta and India will be displayed shortly.
Keep visiting this blog for updates.

MH-SSET-2008

Common Entrance Examination "MH-SSET-2008" for admission to DM / MCh Medical Postgraduate Superspeciality courses in the State of Maharashtra for the academic year 2008-2009 will be held on Sunday, 22nd June, 2008. Detailed programme regarding issue of application forms and information brochures will be announced later.

7 CET'S

A total seven common entrance tests (CETs) of significance for students in Maharashtra after their H.S.C. examination are lined up within a span of 55 days — between April 6 and June 1.It includes MHT-CET-2008.
In fact, the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College’s (AFMC) all-India entrance exam as well as the Association of Managements of Private Unaided Medical and Dental Colleges’ ‘ASSO CET 2008’ are scheduled for the same day on May 4.
To the relief of the students, the timings of these two exams are not clashing and are spread over morning and afternoon sessions.
The AFMC will be filling up 130 seats (105 boys and 25 girls) through the all-India entrance exam, which is regarded as the toughest of the CETs.
The ASSO CET 2008 is expected to draw a much larger number of students considering that the exam is the gateway to 5,975 health science courses seats at 110 private unaided colleges across Maharashtra. This includes 970 seats at 10 unaided medical and 1,630 seats at 19 dental colleges. The rest are for courses in Ayurveda, physiotherapy, occupational medicine and nursing.

Result of PGM-CET-2008

PGM-CET-2008 was conducted by DMER for admission to MD/MS/Diploma courses in medical colleges of Maharashtra in Jan 2008.Its result is declared on 7th Feb 2008.

This result has come as a big surprise to many candidates,espencially those who had received version 44 Question paper for the said examination.Many candidates reported they got atleast 30 marks less than their expectations.As each and every single mark is invaluable in this examination and as it is question of hundreds of PG aspirants in Maharashtra,these students have decided to be united to find a solution for this 'Shock'.

Please leave your comments regarding future course of action,with your name,conract number and email address.(To post a comment click on "__ comments" at the bottom of this post)

All the best Guys!

ASS0-CET-2008

Common Entrance Test (Asso-Cet-2008) conducted by AMUPMDC,will be held on Sunday 4th May 2008 for admission to MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BPth/BSc Nursing courses in aMaharashtra.

MHT-CET-2008(Update)

The MHT-CET-2008,for admission to Medical(MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BHMS/BUMS/B.Pth)courses in Maharashtra will will be conducted on Thursday 8th May 2008.Updates regading issuance of application form and information brochure will be added soon.

About MHT-CET exam

The entrance examination for the selection to all Health Science Courses Pharmacy degree courses in state of Maharashtra for the academic year 2008-2009 shall be conducted by the competent Authority appointed by Government of Maharashtra. The entrance –examination shall be conducted for the seat at all Government /Municipal corporation and Government aided Health Science institutions.

Date of Form and Place of Purchase:
The single Application form and three information Brochures for MHT-CET 2008 (Health Sciences, Engineering and Pharmacy) will be available at Junior College/High school where student has given his/her requisition.

Prescribed application forms as per the requirement shall be obtained by Head Master/ Principal of the college where candidate is studying.Duly filled application form should be submitted by the candidate to the same Junior College/ School on or before prescribed date.

Important Date of MHT CET exam:

Form Issue and Submission Date : 20th Feb 2008 to 1st March 2008

Exam Date : 8th May 2008

Nature of Exam
Subjects for MHT-CET (200 Marks)
Paper 1 :- Physics & Chemistry (50 marks each)
Paper 2:- Biology 100 marks (Botany and zoology -50 marks each)
Total :- 200 Marks
Duration: one and half hours for each paper

Syllabus

Syllabus of Physics , Chemistry, Biology for the MHT-CET -2008 will be the same as for the current year for HSC Examination of HSC Boards of Maharashtra.

Examination Centres: The MHT – CET – 2008 will be conducted at all the district head quarters of the State of Maharashtra. The MHT-CET examination center will be within the same district from where the candidate has passed/ is appearing at the qualifying examination i.e. HSC/12th Standard examination.

Eligibility:
Passed the SSC (Std. X) & HSC (Std. XII) examination of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or its equivalent examination with English as one of the subjects and Physics, Chemistry and Biology as the compulsory subjects.

A candidate belonging to open Category must have obtained not less than 50% (i.e. 150 out of 300) marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken together at the HSC Examination. A candidate belonging to backward class must have obtained not less than 40 % (i.e. 120 out of 300) marks in physics. Chemistry and Biology taken together at the HSC (or equivalent) Examination.

Age Limit: The candidate must be an Indian National , born on before 1st January 1992 to be eligible to appear for MHT-CET-2008.

MBBS will be of six-and-a-half years

The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has approved the proposal for compulsory rural posting for doctors. One year posting in rural and inaccessible areas will now be made part of the curriculum.

Once approved by the Medical Council of India (MCI), this would mean that the MBBS course would now be of six and a half years instead of the present five and a half years.

The proposal requires an amendment to the MCI Act that needs to be approved by Parliament. The new curriculum will be applicable from the 2008-09 academic year, after being passed by Parliament.

Applicable to all medical colleges

According to Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, the proposal, if approved, will be applicable to both the government and private medical colleges.

India churns out 29,500 medical graduates annually but even then there are few healthcare facilities in the rural and far-flung areas.

The one-year rural posting will include serving at the district headquarters for four months, community health centres for another four months and the primary health centres for the remaining four months.

The doctors will be given a monthly stipend of Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 10,000 as an incentive to work in these areas, Dr. Ramadoss said.

They will be based at the district headquarters and will serve under the District Health Officer.

Earlier there was a proposal to make rural postings compulsory after the MBBS course and a doctor will have to serve in the rural areas for at least one year before he applied for a post-graduation course.

However, this proposal was dropped.

The proposal was mooted keeping in mind the poor healthcare facilities in the rural areas, particularly the shortage of doctors as even the government doctors are reluctant to serve in these regions and would rather join the private sector for better salaries and an urban posting.

Update:
The Health ministry has agreed to revise its decision in view of opposition from students all over INDIA.
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Medicos oppose Rural posting

Medical teachers and students in the state have strongly opposed a move by Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss to extend the five-and-a-half-year MBBS course by a year, with the last year as mandatory rural posting. They have said that the move will be counter-productive since fresh medical graduates will not be able to deliver the desired results.
“A fresh MBBS graduate is too inexperienced to handle crisis situations in a rural set-up, which will be unfair to the rural population,’’ a senior professor said.
Ramadoss is considering extending the course following recommendations by the National Rural Health Mission. A month ago, he had set up a high-level committee headed by additional director general of health services R Samba Siva Rao to ascertain the views of undergraduate and post-graduate teachers, medical teachers, parents and associated groups before implementation of the rural posting for medical graduates.
Accordingly Rao, on Wednesday, held a marathon meeting with medical teachers and students from 42 medical colleges across the state, senior officials of the medical education department and the directorate of medical education and research at JJ Hospital. Rao explained the proposal and said, “Our rural health care system is weak and we want it to strengthen in a time-bound period. Hence Ramadoss, on the recommendation of the rural health mission, has mooted the new concept.’’
However, medical teachers opposed the move and also raised the following objections. Students who want to continue post-graduate studies will be affected as a gap of one year in a non-academic environment will have an adverse effect on their studies.
The course is already long and adding a year is unfair. Making it compulsory with a meagre pay or stipend amounts to exploitation. It is likely that if this scheme is implemented, the number of posts in rural areas may be insufficient to accommodate all the graduates. In its report, NHRM has said that public health centres across India are poorly managed owing to acute shortage of manpower. In Maharashtra, out of the 6,000 public health centres, there are no doctors at at least 1,600 centres, while at 2,000 centres, the medical officers are appointed on adhoc basis for 11 months.
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