Biometric attendance for highly paid private consultant doctors to teach DNB PG students has begun at the BMC-run Rajawadi Hospital

For mandatory biometric attendance, the medical superintendent of Rajawadi Hospital, Ghatkopar issued a circular to all DNB teaching staff and engaged special consultants. All DNB teachers, medical consultants and employees, and medical officers at the Sheth VH Gandhi and MA Vohra BMC General Hospital, Rajawadi, Ghatkopar, are required to mark their biometric attendance under the circular.

 

Most of the superspecialty doctors hired by BMC to teach DNB to postgraduate medical students at the six peripheral hospitals— Rajawadi Hospital, Bhabha Hospital in Kurla and Bandra, VN Desai Hospital, Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali, and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital in Govandi—are only available for a few hours and are never available after 3 p.m. or on weekends.

 

Many had a thriving private practise while neglecting their responsibilities at the BMC hospital and teaching PG students.

Surprisingly, the super specialist consultant doctors employed by BMC to educate PG students in the DNB programme at the six periphery hospitals are not recognised. DNB has rejected the majority of the courses provided in BMC hospitals. "A total of 48 subjects were submitted for accreditation to the DNB, but only 12 were approved."

 

Previously, the courses were run by the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS), but they were abruptly discontinued, and DNB courses were established, which are not permitted," claims a disgruntled PG student at Bhabha Hospital in Bandra. "In Maharashtra, medical education is a complete disaster. This is what occurs when the government takes shortcuts without seeking the advice of qualified educators and medical professionals. For medical education and patient care, BMC has no vision. A long-term, holistic strategy is required. Contractual teaching appointments are a backdoor into the DNB programme for students who have not completed their studies. Dr. Sachin Mulkutkar, President of the Maharashtra State Medical Teachers Association, declares, "God save Mumbai public health."

 

 

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