Vacancies in 53 super specialty medical seats
Posted on: 25/Oct/2017 12:14:10 PM - No. of views : (3716)
In spite of instructing the Directorate General of Health Services, New Delhi to extend the total counselling period by 10 days, at least one-fourth of the totally available super-specialty medical seats in Tamil Nadu continue to remain vacant. This includes cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric surgery and neurosurgery. Even in the 30 super-specialty courses, there were no takers at the Madras Medical College. These seats were set open for all postgraduate doctors in the country.
DGHS has conducted admission in these super-specialty courses. There is a total of 1,011 super-specialty seats in India. Until 11th October, all the 535 seats including the 99 of them in Tamil Nadu continued to be vacant. So, the Supreme Court had allowed DGHS to conduct a mop-up counselling and offered an extension of 10 days. All over the country, the post graduate students were said to apply for vacancies and the students were set to join the medical colleges.
According to the directorate of medical education in Tamil Nadu, about 53 seats including 30 in the Madras Medical College continued to be vacant after mop-up. Most such seats belonged to surgical specialty. In the madras medical college, about 14 seats of cardiothoracic surgery continued to be vacant and 8 in pediatric surgery continued to be vacant. Even in the departments including neurosurgery, neurology, neonatology, and hepatology, there were vacancies, said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.
In the month of June, the doctors wanted reservation for super-specialty seats with the state-run medical colleges. For this, they had set a campaign called �our state, our seat�. Dr P Balakrishnan, the Chennai unit president of Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association said seats for domiciliary candidates were reserved and the wastage could have got minimized. Until 2016, the state will be allowed to hold 50 percent seat reservation for students after giving out 50 percent of the seats.
