By NNN-PTI,
Nagpur : Maharashtra Government is making it compulsory for PG medical students and faculty to serve in rural areas once a month to provide specialised treatment to patients there, a senior minister said.
“We are planning to make it mandatory for all post graduate students and faculty to visit patients from rural areas once a month,” Minister for Medical Education Vijaykumar Gavit told PTI here.
An earlier decision by the state government to make two years’ internship for MBBS students in rural areas compulsory created a controversy, as many of them wanted to join PG courses after completing the graduate degree. Later, the period of the internship was reduced.
However, the latest decision would not affect students’ career, Gavit said. In fact, they would get more exposure to various types of patients, he added.