May 2023 Issue

Dear IMA GSB Friends,
Seasons’ Greetings. Wishing you Happy RathYatra in advance.

Increasing problems in medical field are becoming new challenges for all of us. Especially, large number of doctors graduating every year, low health budgets of governments, less and unfilled medical posts, unfilled PG seats, extremely expensive medical education, unhealthy competition, violence against doctors leading to fearsome work environment, inadequate law & legal protection… now it is high time that we must bring these issues to hall governments. Although, we don’t want to, but we are forced to go on strike by such unresolved issues.

Our medical system is world famous for ease of access and affordable healthcare. As a country and society, it is It is our collective responsibility to maintain the best aspects of Indian medical system.

Career options for young medical graduates ; should we worry about them?

Young medical graduates are the real pillars of our community, that will serve the nation in coming years. They will be the custodians of the nation’s health. We have focused on opening out more and more medical colleges in the country but without really worrying for these young medical graduates, especially those who decide to offer primary care to the society as family practitioners.

India produces approximately 67000 MBBS graduates every year. In addition, some 20000 Indian medical students after completing Foreign Medical education from Russia, China, Philippines and other countries return to India every year. Even if, only 15% clear the Foreign Medical Graduates exam, that still makes the number of qualified and licensed MBBS doctors produced yearly at over 70000. This is a huge number of medical talent pool available to us.

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