Editorial
Admission test anomalies
Pvt. medical colleges compromise on quality
A report that 23 per cent of the students admitted into private medical colleges during 2012-13 academic session scored below 30 out of 100 marks in admission tests is disconcerting. Worse yet, there are instances where students passed the admission tests, though they obtained below 10 marks.
What the report has brought to the fore is something very scary for a profession that prided itself on possessing some of the best brains coming out of the intermediate level education.
Like the proverbial bad money driving good money out of circulation, these new entrants may one day occupy the centre stage of the medical profession thrusting the good ones aside. It simply boggles the mind!
One wonders how could they, on the health ministry's or directorate's watch, bend the rule that those obtaining below 60 per cent marks in nationally conducted admission tests may get admission in private medical universities in order of sequence?
Needless to say, dubious elements in the top echelons of the health administration, professional bodies of doctors and some among senior professionals are behind this downslide in standard of admission tests at the private medical colleges.
The government, the health ministry, in particular, should look into the matter and take urgent measures to bring the admission process in the private medical colleges under discipline.
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