3 months mandatory posting at district hospital for PG medical students in academic session 2020-21
New Delhi: All post-graduate students pursuing MD or MS in broad specialities in medical colleges across the country will have to undergo a compulsory residential rotation of three months in district hospitals as part of the course curriculum in the academic session 2020-21.
Such rotation shall take place in the 3rd, 4th or 5th semester of the postgraduate programme.
This rotation shall be termed as 'District Residency Programme' (DRP) and the postgraduate medical student undergoing training shall be termed as a 'District Resident', the notification issued by the board of governors in supersession of the Medical Council of India (MCI) said.
According to the Post-graduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 , satisfactory completion of the district residency shall be an essential condition before the candidate is allowed to appear in the final examination of the respective postgraduate course.
"All postgraduate students pursuing MD/MS in broad specialities in all Medical Colleges/Institutions under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 shall undergo a compulsory residential rotation of three months in District Hospitals /District Health System as a part of the course curriculum.
"Such rotation shall take place in the 3rd or 4th or 5th semester of the postgraduate programme," the latest notification read.
The main objectives of the 'District Residency Programme' would be to expose postgraduate students to the District Health System and involve them in health care services being provided at the district hospital for learning while serving, besides acquainting them with the implementation, monitoring and assessment of outcomes of the National Health programmes at the district level.
The aim is also to orient them to promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services being provided by various categories of healthcare professionals under the umbrella of National Health Mission.
"In doing so, the postgraduate medical students would also be contributing toward strengthening of services of the District Health System as specialty resident doctors working as members of the district teams," the notification said.
For the purpose of this programme, a district hospital shall be a functional public sector/government-funded hospital of not less than 100 beds with facilities/staff for the designated specialities at that level / facility.
The District Health System including the district hospitals constitute the most important part of the country's public healthcare enterprise. District hospitals represent multi-specialty facilities providing comprehensive secondary level care.
These facilities are a major source of health services for the people, the notification stated.
As a part of the programme, district residents would be trained in and contribute to diagnostic/laboratories services, pharmacy services, forensic services, general clinical duties, managerial roles and public health programmes etc., as applicable.
They may also be posted in research units or facilities, laboratories and field sites of the Indian Council of Medical Research and other national research organizations, the notification stated.
District residents shall continue to draw full stipend/salary from their respective medical colleges for the duration the rotation subject to the attendance record submitted by the appropriate district authorities to the parent medical college/institution, based on methods and system as prescribed.
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Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand booked in Sitapur for poll code violation
Sitapur (UP) (PTI): A case of Model Code of Conduct violation was registered against BSP chief Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand and four others on Sunday for allegedly using objectionable language at a poll rally here, police said.
The action came after the district administration took suo motu cognisance of Anand's speech at the rally earlier in the day, they said.
"This government is a bulldozer government and a government of traitors. The party that leaves its youth hungry and enslaves its elderly is a terrorist government. Taliban runs such a government in Afghanistan," the BSP leader said.
In his address, Anand also cited a National Crime Records Bureau report of 16,000 kidnapping incidents in the state and accused the government of failing to provide safety to women and children.
The BJP is a party of thieves who took Rs 16,000 crores through electoral bonds, he further alleged.
The case was registered against Anand, the BSP's national coordinator, party candidates Mahendra Yadav, Shyam Awasthi and Akshay Kalra and rally organiser Vikas Rajvanshi, Superintendent of Police (Sitapur) Chakresh Mishra said.
He added that the case was registered under sections IPC 171C (undue influence at elections), 153B (imputation, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and section 125 of the RP Act (promoting enmity between classes in connection with election).
The speech was given to incite violence and with the use of unparliamentary language, violating the Model Code of Conduct, Mishra said.
Sitapur will vote in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 13.
