To,
Dr. Davinderkumar,
Jt.Sec., UG sec.,
Medical Counci of India.
Sub: Suggestions and comments for UG Edu. Vision-2015.
Ref: VISION -2015 Document having proposed UG Medical
Education placed on MCI website on/after 28 Dec.2010 with
inviting suggestions.
Respected Sir,
With reference to the above mentioned subject and reference, there are several points which I would like to bring to your kind notice:
1. It has been mentioned in the document that rape and sexual assault topics can be taught along with OG etc, but no alternate has been given for very many topics like Death & it’s causes, PM changes, Medicolegal autopsy, Asphyxia etc.
2. Although it has been mentioned that such and such topic will be covered along with so and so subject, you have not clarified who will teach? No annexure is attached to the document.
3. If Forensic Medicine is made an elective subject, who will conduct autopsies at Primary health centers? Because the then MBBS doctors would have no experience or knowledge of conducting autopsies. (it is human nature to escape from work. If given the choice, why should one take the extra burden of reading one more subject?)
4. An excuse to the above doubt could be that FM experts would do the autopsies. But then your document itself says that there is shortage of FM experts; and if there is no shortage i.e. district-wise FM experts are available, why to cry?
5. It is mentioned that legal experts will cover the legal part; this is a joke. For your kind information sir, FM experts take the orientation lectures of not only the lawyers and trainee IPS officers, but even some of the judges. Moreover, in some metro cities, wherein the crimes have increased and wherein the incidences of patients sewing the doctors have increased, Medico legal Consultancy has emerged as a specialized discipline in itself and one can find practicing medico-legal consultants in almost every metro.
6. There have been many advances in the field of forensic science and we need not depend entirely on the FSL for each and every investigation. So it is necessary that every doctor should not only be authorized but also obliged to perform certain basic tests for eg. those based on microscopy or simple staining etc. Similar provisions should be made for various pathological and microbiological tests also; i.e. although we are trained for performing urine/stool microscopy etc, but we do not perform them in our clinic while practicing medicine, unnecessarily causing inconvenience to the patient.
7. I do agree that integrated teaching should be there but then be review lectures must be there for each and every (pre & para-clinical) subject.
8. In light of the above, I humbly request you to reconsider the above proposal and also to give some more time (at least one more month) and the full details, so that we can understand it better and give our views accordingly.
Dr. Bhaumesh M. Rajdev
Tutor,
Dept. of Forensic Medicine,
Govt. Medical Collge, Surat.
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