With a surge in applications for the establishment of medical colleges , the National Medical Commission (NMC) has taken up the task of scrutinizing these institutions. The NMC’s Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) has commenced the evaluation process for setting up new medical colleges and increasing MBBS seats for the upcoming academic year, 2024-25.
The Government of Kerala Bills 8 for New Medical Colleges
In this context, the state administration has developed a project to found 8 new medical colleges that will lead to the improvement of healthcare care in the area. At the moment, the state correctly has 26 government medical colleges, so when these institutions merge entire system will raise the number of colleges to 34. This move ensures that enough clinicians are available where they are needed, whether it be health posts, hospitals or district health offices.
Increased MBBS Seats and Stringent Norms
There will an expansion of medical colleges due to which students’ likelihood or choice of pursuing MBBS will increase due to the availability of more MBBS seats. Now 3,915 government MBBS seats available is forecasted to soar to 4,315 ones, thus meeting the increasing public requirements for medical studies. Nevertheless, NMC imposes strict norms to be achieved as requirement of the quality measures of medical education.
Obligatory Set of Rules for Medical Colleges
The NMC requirements comprise certain criteria for presentation of colleges of the medicine. That put forward the issue of structure of the infrastructure and the faculty standards. As per the notification of the committee. Each approved medical college has to run departments like anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. Specifying the percentage of the teachers to the number of students, etc. Apart from this, the indoor seats standards point to the minimum allowable occupancy. For different indoor bed spaces where the bed-to-seat ratio is set to the respective seating capacity.
Faculty and Equipment Standards
The commission along these lines, provides faculty members requirements as well. Designating a specific number of professors, associated professors. Other faculty members for the number of seats occupied by students. Also, a list of essential equipment. Regarding to different departments in colleges and hospitals, is available for MBBS students. To guarantee the availability of tools for teaching learning. Research quality standards assist us in determining the level of performance. As well as what universities should do to meet the necessary accreditation and operations criteria.
Hence, the growth of medical facilities does not only demonstrate the country’s devotion towards the promotion of the health education. The health services for the people nationwide. This organization being reputed for its unbiased assessment of educational facilities. Become the leading watchdog for those new educational institutions. To maintain medical training of top quality.
