Doctors from private sector, those living overseas can now teach in medical colleges
Medical colleges can now appoint private doctors, including overseas citizens, on part-time basis to teach MBBS and post-graduate students, according to a government notification.The new regulations do not apply to all AIIMS institutions, PGI Chandigarh and JIPMER in Puducherry established under stand-alone Acts of Parliament, a senior health ministry official said.
The decision by the Board of Governors (BoG), which is vested with powers of the medical education regulator Medical Council of India (MCI), is aimed at addressing the shortage of teachers in private and government colleges.The teachers who would be hired on part-time basis would be called “visiting faculty”, according to the new regulations titled ‘Minimum qualification for teachers in medical institutions (Amendment) Regulations 2019’.“With a view to enhance the comprehensiveness and quality of teaching of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical departments, medical colleges/medical institutions can appoint additional faculty members on part-time basis who would be known as “visiting faculty,” the notification read.
To encourage and facilitate the inclusion of Indian diaspora in medical education, overseas citizens of India can also be appointed as visiting faculty, it stated.The notification states that that the visiting faculty has to possess postgraduate degree as prescribed in the respective regulations for appointment in the concerned specialty and a minimum of eight years of work experience in the concerned specialty after obtaining the postgraduate degree.
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