Restore number of posts in medical colleges, non-MBBS teachers urge Health Ministry
The Hindu
Decision will address faculty crisis in institutions and help teachers, they say
A year after nearly 6,000 non-medical teachers in medical colleges knocked at the door of the Union Health Ministry fearing a job crisis with the National Medical Commission reducing the posts for their recruitment, the National MSc Medical Teachers Association (NMMTA), the body representing non-medical teachers, has yet again approached the Health Ministry seeking a revision.
“We have sought for the Ministry to revoke the order. The step will address faculty crisis in the institutions and help the teachers,” said a letter submitted to the Ministry.
The representation highlighted that while teachers of clinical subjects in medical colleges are always doctors with MBBS and MS/MD degrees, there are others in the non-clinical subjects with medical M.Sc. or Ph.D.s who are not doctors but have undergone similar training and their designations range from tutor to professor and even head of departments.