To curb doctors who teach in government-run or private medical colleges from practising at multiple locations including private hubs at the cost of their original job, the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has asked them to submit a mandatory declaration of their background details.
To curb doctors who teach in government-run or private medical colleges from practising at multiple locations including private hubs at the cost of their original job, the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has asked them to submit a mandatory declaration of their background details.
The MUHS has taken this step by asking medical teachers from 39 medical colleges to submit an undertaking form with a stamp fee of Rs 100 on a bond paper, declaring as to which colleges they are attached to, their educational backgrounds and their registration numbers. But most of the public and civic-run medical college teachers are annoyed with this exercise.
This move comes after Medical Council of India (MCI) discovered that some medical teachers from various parts of the state were allowing South India-based medical colleges to use their names as teachers in exchange for money.
The doctors have a simple modus operandi: they visit the South India-based private colleges when a team from MCI comes for inspection of the infrastructure in these colleges. Once the MCI team is gone, these professors rush back to their parent colleges.
MUHS oversees the syllabus, and checks the teaching standards, infrastructure, and research prevailing in medical colleges across the state.
Dr Arun Jamkar, Vice-Chancellor, MUHS confirmed the development. He said, "Recently, we sent a circular to all the colleges to get the undertaking from the college teachers. There are some agencies who randomly call teachers and offer them money to be with another college for the sake of record. Through this move we are taking an undertaking from teachers. Some teachers had raised an issue about why they should offer an undertaking on stamp paper. So, we asked have asked them, through their respective college deans, to send us their undertaking on plain paper."
He added, "In the past, MCI derecognised 60 medical teachers for such malpractice. To streamline the medical education system, we have taken this step."
According to sources, in the past similar incidents had happened in Maharashtra too.
This is a common practice across India. There are around 381 medical colleges in the country. A medical college, to maintain quality, has to appoint full-time teaching staff, but private colleges have not been getting enough qualified staff, and many don't have up-to-the-mark infrastructure. MCI only allows a college to enrol students when it's sure there is enough staff on the college's rolls.
On condition of anonymity, a professor said, "Indirectly, the varsity has raised questions about our authenticity. I agree that a few cases of malpractice have occurred in the past. But all teachers are not like that, we do our job with honesty. Now that the MUHS has brought out such a circular, we have to obey it."
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