India: Chinese Medical Schools

[Francis Hult]

The Times of India

 

Will they fit into system when they return home?

 

Five years after Indian students started going to China for medical education, the government is yet to get a grip on how these thousands of students will be integrated into practising in India when they return. In June 2007, the Health Ministry finally sent to China a 14-member team headed by joint secretary K Ramamoorthy, in charge of medical education, to study the kind of education being imparted in these medical colleges.

 

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Dr Indrajit Ray, principal of Calcutta Medical College and a member of the delegation, says a major concern is the amount of clinical exposure the students get. "In the second year when students have to take a patient's history, Indian students do not know enough Chinese to interact with them. Chinese is a difficult language and unlike Russia, where medical students spend the first year just learning the language, here they learn Chinese along with medicine. So their grasp over the language is poor," he says. They provide the students an interpreter to pass the oral examination, but such a facility will not be available for every student.

 

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Deep_Focus/Will_they_fit_into_system_when_they_return_home/articleshow/2695405.cms

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