Biggest addition to MBBS seats |
The academic year of 2019-20 will see one of the biggest additions of medical seats in India`s government colleges in a single year with about 2,750 seats in 25 new government medical colleges having been created. Though the government has been on a significant expansion spree in medical seats since 2012, the process has accelerated in the last two years with new colleges being developed and existing ones also increasing seats with the help of funding from the government. The biggest stumbling block to the expansion of medical education has been inadequate availability of faculty. With the private sector too adding 10 new colleges in 2019 accounting for 1,500 seats, the minimum faculty requirements for the 35 new colleges is well over 3,000, that is over 600 professors, 1,000 associate professors and almost 1,500 assistant professors. With even existing medical colleges struggling to find faculty, medical educationists are concerned that this could lead to more unethical practices like ghost faculty and poaching of faculty from established government colleges. With the expansion in 2019, there are now 70,978 MBBS seats in 529 colleges in India.
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