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)
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
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.
Monday, December 17, 2007
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.
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.
Friday, November 30, 2007
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.
(Source)
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.
(Source)
Friday, November 23, 2007
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.
(Source)
“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.
(Source)
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Aids Pill
The US government approved a novel anti-AIDS pill on Friday, offering a new option for hard-to-treat patients.
Manufacturer Merck & Co. said Isentress should be on pharmacy shelves within two weeks.
The AIDS virus uses three different enzymes to reproduce and infect cells. Numerous drugs are available that target two of those enzymes, called protease and reverse transcriptase.
Isentress is the first in a new class of medicines that blocks the third enzyme, called integrase. Added to "cocktails" of other HIV medicines, the drug can lower the amount of HIV in the blood and help infection-fighting immune cells rebound.
HIV mutates rapidly to resist various treatments, and the Food and Drug Administration approved use of Isentress in patients over age 16 whose blood tests show they are resistant to common older medications.
Side effects include diarrhea, nausea, headache and itching.
Patients take Isentress, also known as raltegravir, twice a day. A Merck spokeswoman said the drug would cost $27 a day, or $9,855 a year _ in the range of other competitors.
It is the second novel HIV drug to win FDA approval in two months. Pfizer Inc.'s Selzentry works by yet another method, blocking a passage that HIV often uses to enter white blood cells.
Manufacturer Merck & Co. said Isentress should be on pharmacy shelves within two weeks.
The AIDS virus uses three different enzymes to reproduce and infect cells. Numerous drugs are available that target two of those enzymes, called protease and reverse transcriptase.
Isentress is the first in a new class of medicines that blocks the third enzyme, called integrase. Added to "cocktails" of other HIV medicines, the drug can lower the amount of HIV in the blood and help infection-fighting immune cells rebound.
HIV mutates rapidly to resist various treatments, and the Food and Drug Administration approved use of Isentress in patients over age 16 whose blood tests show they are resistant to common older medications.
Side effects include diarrhea, nausea, headache and itching.
Patients take Isentress, also known as raltegravir, twice a day. A Merck spokeswoman said the drug would cost $27 a day, or $9,855 a year _ in the range of other competitors.
It is the second novel HIV drug to win FDA approval in two months. Pfizer Inc.'s Selzentry works by yet another method, blocking a passage that HIV often uses to enter white blood cells.
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