IITs get ok to have medical colleges, foreign faculty and foreign students
September 10th, 2010
Update: IIT Kharagpur and IIT Hyderabad are keen on having medical schools.
Following is an excerpt from a report in Times of India.
The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology would now offer courses in medicine with foreign nationals on permanent faculty positions and students from abroad at the post graduate level.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of IIT council presided by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday.
The government decided to seek the approval of the Medical Council of India for the course, Sibal told reporters.
The IIT council meeting decided to carry out appropriate amendment in the Institute of Technologies Act to enable the IITs to offer the medicine programme, he added.
"We are making sure that wherever the instruction leads to a degree relating to any branch of medicine, then of course clearances from MCI under the Act will have to be taken," Sibal said.
He, however, said no MCI approval would be required where IITs engage with inter-disciplinary research for the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge not leading to a degree or qualification for the practice of medicine.
… The council also decided to enable IITs to recruit foreign faculties which should not be more than 10 per cent of the total faculty strength.
"In principle, we agreed that IITs are entitled to recruiting foreign faculties", Sibal said adding they will set up a mechanism with the Home Ministry to ensure there is no "hiccup in the process and there is easy exit and entry of people" as faculties.
Some other issues like bringing amendments to the Indian Citizenship Act will also have to be looked into, he said.
… Sibal said the meeting also agreed in principle to admit up to 25 per cent foreign students at the post graduate level on a "supernumerary basis without affecting the present admission norms for Indian students".
On medical schools at IIT, the main bone of contention was that IITs would have preferred that the medical schools in IITs do not have to get approval from the Medical Council of India. This would have been similar to them not needing approval from AICTE for their engineering programs. But the health ministry would not agree to that. So now the IITs are ready to accept MCI authority over their medical schools. This solves the problem.
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4 Writeup
1. Debasis | September 11th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Now, the interdisciplinary research is blooming. Most of the developments (instrumentation,X-ray, CT scan, MRI, genetic engineering, radiology etc) in medical sciences are due to physics and engineering. Now its the right time for doctors, physicist and engineers to shake hand and come up with innovative techniques for the long term benefits of medical sciences.
Much more can be done in collaboration between physics, engineering and medical sciences such as nano-medicine drug delivery and many more new and fundamental research in medical sciences
So the idea of having MBBS in IITs is really very good.
2. Abhisek | September 11th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
If IITs can have Medical courses, may be in few years time the NITs will be allowed to have such programmes. Even now the CUs are going to have schools of Medicine. That will help in bridging the demand-supply mismatch in medical education.
3. Abhisek | September 11th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
If IITs can have Medical courses, may be in few years time the NITs will be allowed to have such programmes. Even now the CUs are going to have schools of Medicine. That will help in bridging the demand-supply mismatch in medical education.
4. Aum Yagna Dutta Mohapatr | September 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
IIT Bhubaneswar should start the road map for setting up first it’s kind of Medical science department and attract more foreign facult. As it’s now attract more bengali faculties. In near future the study environment of IIT Bhubaneswar will spoil because of bengali dominated faculties. As bengalis are known for great politician and give prefarences to their community only… Thats why other community definitly suffer alot. The things are happened in IIT Kharagpur… thats why dnt try to facilitate same kind of practice in IIT Bhubaneswar… Make it most happening IIT in India….