No good news for those desirous of teaching at medical college

Amritsar, January 4

Even after six months of the last date of filling applications for posts of assistant professors in government medical college, the Medical Education and Research Department has failed to hold meeting of the departmental promotion committee (DPC) to finalise the recruitment.

As a result several posts of assistant professor, which ought to be filled through promotion from among the lecturers and tutors, continue lie vacant. Insiders at the Government Medical College here said the department had asked the interested candidates to file their applications before June 16, 2015. “However, even after six months, no word has come out for the next process. The education of the medical students is suffering as a result,” said a faculty member.

The shortage of faculty members in few departments of the medical college is acute to such an extent that only one professor is running the entire department. A case in point is the Department of ENT, where only one professor is available.

Apart from taking classes, faculty members also have to attend OPD and IPD patients. They said the college was vying for getting more MBBS seats, but the Medical Education Department was not doing enough to end the shortage of the faculty. — TNS