Colleges don’t follow BFUHS curriculum, issued notices

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 21

The Punjab Medical Council has issued show cause notices to medical colleges that are not following the curriculum prescribed by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. The colleges had failed to give undertakings in this regard.

The institutes have been asked to furnish the curriculum details within ten days of the receipt of the notice, failing which action will be taken against them. Dr GS Grewal, president, Punjab Medical Council, said that six prominent medical colleges had failed to submit the undertakings.

The colleges included Government Medical College, Amritsar, Government Medical College, Patiala, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Guru Ram Dass Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, and Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, he said.

Dr Grewal said they issued the notices to the colleges after getting complaints that the required lessons were not being held for the PG residents and super speciality residents. Grewal said the council found that super speciality and speciality doctors were doing general duties instead of teaching students.

“This is a serious issue as we will be producing doctors with degrees, but without actual teaching and training experience,” he said. He said the council would conduct surprise checks to various colleges to verify whether or not the curriculum was being followed.

Dr Grewal also said the PMC had learnt certain colleges were not serious about the registration of the doctors. It was illegal for a doctor to treat a patient without having registered with the state medical council. He said the colleges had been directed to ensure that doctors were duly registered.