Dr.Deepak's feedback to MCI. New idea (modified) to help you in communicating to the MCI

Respected Governors of MCI,

Vision 2015 makes an interesting observation: a table is provided which gives the currently available teachers in various fields of Medicine along with the projected shortfall in the future. Forensic Medicine has been predicted to have the highest shortfall of teachers in the future. On the one hand MCI knows about the current and predicted shortfall of Forensic Medicne experts; on the other hand (see vide infra.) MCI is taking steps to worsen the situation. This calls for an explanation by MCI.

Explanation about MCI taking steps to worsen the situation.

If vision-2015 is implemented, the future forensic medicine experts will not get the job.

As you must be aware,there are no job opportunities for forensic medicine experts, other than the teaching job in medical colleges. If the subject of forensic medicine is made an elective subject, medical student will not opt for this subject. If a medical student wants to opt for this subject, which is very rare given the fact that there will be strong contenders like ENT, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Skin, Orthopaedics, etc., the college management will surely discourage the student from opting for forensic medicine; the reason for the college management to do that is that forensic medicine is not a specialty which is required by the patients, neither is it profitable to maintain the department of forensic medicine, and most importantly, it is not mandatory for the medical colleges to show to the MCI, the medico-legal work load (autopsies in particular) during the inspections.

It will, sooner or later, be made obvious to the Medical colleges that they go their medical education, even without the department of Forensic medicine.

It will not be nice on the part of forensic-medicine expert to continue in that medical college, without any work. If he wants to continue, management of the medical colleges know the methods to make him go. So, he will have to resign. 

Existing staff will have to resign and the new staff will not get the job.

Since there is no demand presently for doing post-graduation in forensic medicine, and the demand will be totally zero in the near future, the MCI's VISION-2015 of producing forensic medicine experts will be not be possible at all.

No private medical college will retain the faculty of forensic medicine to provide the non-profitable 'service' of post-graduate teaching in forensic medicine. They will do it, only if there is a compulsion.

How will you answer to the government, for worsening the existing shortfall of forensic medicine experts of the country?

Please reconsider your decision, and make the subject of forensic medicine as a core and compulsory subject.

My suggestions in this email, if implemented, is in your own interest too!

Regards

Dr.Deepak Herald D'Souza

Associate Professor

Yenepoya Medical College

mangalore




EARLIER POST


Dear friends, I have recieved a wonderful positive response, 22 emails so far, about the idea of using PG education as a Weapon.

The best response is given below.

today is the last day...

so please give feedback along these lines to the MCI. forward this email too

Regards

deepak

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: annie verghese <annieverghese@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:32 AM
Subject: RE: URGENTLY needed to be read today itself: UNIFIED stand-new idea
To: deepak d'souza <fmdeepak@gmail.com>

Dear Deepak

Vision 2015 makes an interesting observation: a table is provided which gives the currently available teachers in various fields of Medicine along with the projected shortfall in the future. Forensic Medicine has been predicted to have the highest shortfall of teachers in the future. On the one hand MCI knows about the current and predicted shortfall of Forensic Medicne experts; on the other hand (as explained by your own mail) they are taking steps to worsen the situation. I think it calls for an explanation by MCI.

Annie

Dear friends,

If vision-2015 is implemented, the future forensic medicine experts will not get the job. How?

Ans:

There are no job opportunities for forensic medicine experts, other than the teaching job in medical colleges. If the subject of forensic medicine is made an elective subject, medical student will not opt for this subject. It will not be nice on the part of forensic-medicine expert to continue in that medical college, without any work. So, he will have to resign. Existing staff will have to resign and the new staff will not get the job.

So, it is better that the forensic-medicine experts stop guiding the new post graduate students who (if at all somebody opts), so that we have a clear conscience and wont feel guilty about our mistake of wasting the students valuable time and money.

STOP TEACHING THE NEW POST GRADUATE STUDENTS (not the existing)

?????? How will the government answer to the need of forensic medicine experts of the country?????

GIVE THIS FEEDBACK TO MCI, from the behalf of IAFM,SIMLA, KAMLS, etc., that we will not be able to produce forensic-medicine experts if vision-2015 is implemented

Dr.Deepak