This unusual situation has arisen following a significant policy shift by the National Medical Commission (NMC) in 2022, which removed the upper age limit for NEET.
The victim, Anil Methaniya, fell unconscious and died allegedly after being made to stand for three long hours during ragging by his seniors at a hostel of the GMERS Medical College and Hospital at Dharpur in Patan, the college dean, Dr Hardik Shah, said.
NEET-UG 2024: 26.4 lakh students applied for the NEET-UG exams this year. As per the National Testing Agency, among those who have qualified for the country's biggest entrance exam for admission to MBBS and BDS courses at the undergraduate level, 5,47,036 are male, 7,69,222 are female and 10 are transgender persons. Watch.
As a medical aspirant, Dr Ganesh Baraiya was initially disqualified from the Medical Council of India from studying MBBS owing to his short height.
The number of Indian students has risen exponentially and we are also making adequate arrangements to ensure the trend continues and the students do not have to face any discomfort," Dr Zafar Aminov, Vice Chancellor, State Samarkand Medical University told PTI.
'Somehow this seems much worse than other degrees. Because human lives are at stake. I mean who cares if one's water purifier technician or graphic artist paid for their seat?' a Twitter user commented.
Reacting to the photo, many Twitter users pointed out that since Delhi offers one of the highest salaries to junior resident doctors, more candidates flock to hospitals in the city.
'The best part is that... counselor, senior counselor, and clinical psychologist get almost double the salary of doctors,' Dr Jagadish J Hiremath shared.
Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy said that the ideals that people expect doctors to follow don't pay for their bills. 'Someone writing some inconsequential code is entitled to make more money and fly business class while the doctors have no such right whatsoever,' he tweeted.
Now, however, the doctor earns more from his investments in equity than from his medical practice. 'I like it that way,' he says.
Europe, the US and, most popularly, the UK aside, increasingly Kashmiri students are opting for such countries as Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for higher studies, especially for MBBS.
Chandigarh, Dec 24 MBBS students in Haryana on Saturday called off their 54-day-long protest against the state government's bond policy. The move came ..
Notably, the Madhya Pradesh government recently launched books for the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course in Hindi.
At a high-level held on Monday, the National Medical Commission (NMC) is learnt to have conveyed to the Union Health Ministry that it intends to conduct the National Exit Test (NExT) in December 2023, official sources said on Wednesday.
The MBBS course in Hindi will begin in the next academic session after receiving the panel's draft and completing formalities, the minister said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released textbooks in Hindi of three subjects for MBBS students as part of an ambitious project of the Madhya Pradesh government to impart medical education in that language.
Terming it as an important day in history, Shah said Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to start the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course in Hindi.
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Medical Education Minister Vishvas Sarang were present on the occasion.
The NEET is a common qualifying test for MBBS and BDS courses in medical and dental colleges across India. It is conducted by the National Testing Agency.
Special judge NIA court, Srinagar, Manjeet Singh Manhas, framed the charges against Hurriyat leader and chairman Salvation Movement Mohammad Akbar Bhat alias 'Zaffar Akbar Bhat' and seven other residents of Kashmir for committing offences under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The health department has sent a letter to the Centre and we have urged officials to fill the seats at the earliest.
National Medical Commission officials say students go abroad to study medicine out of a belief that their personality will develop from interaction with students from other parts of the world and their culture and by learning foreign languages. Such students often lack sufficient clinical skills, they say.
Officials from NMC, Health Ministry, MEA and NITI Aayog will soon hold important meeting and the issue will be reviewed on humanitarian grounds and looked at sympathetically, sources said.
All Indian nationals including students are advised to leave Kyiv urgently today, Indian embassy said on Tuesday. Students in Kharkiv say they are scared and are hearing shelling sounds.
If the Russia-Ukraine crisis persists, the government may have to make provisions for the lateral entry of medical students into Indian colleges