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Govt to hike 5000 additional PG seats in clinical subjects
The country has 472 medical colleges and close to a million registered doctors . However , there is a shortage of doctors as per WHO norm of 1 doctor per 1000 population . To facilitate the setting up of more medical colleges , the Government had rationalized the requirement of faculty in July , 2015 . Infrastructural requirements are further being rationalized . Recently , companies have been allowed to set up medical colleges . There is also a centrally sponsored scheme for establishment of new medical colleges in underserved areas .
The expansion of postgraduate medical education is a priority as the shortage of PG medical seats in the country affects not only the availability of specialist doctors but also the ease of getting faculty for medical colleges . A 100 seat medical college requires 58 faculty at the permission stage and 105 faculty at the recognition
72 BioVoiceNews | March 2017