Fw: [pathoindia.com] MCI dec 1 ,2008 ammendment to Teacher requirement-reduces teacher requirement

[Guest guest]

Subject: [pathoindia.com] MCI dec 1 ,2008 ammendment to Teacher

requirement-reduces teacher requirement

To: patho-india

Date: Friday, 19 December, 2008, 6:15 AM

MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA

AMENDMENT NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 1st December, 2008

No. MCI.34(41)/2008- Med./34787- In exercise of the powers conferred

by Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956(102 of 1956),

the Medical Council of India with the previous sanction of the

Central Government hereby makes the following regulations to further

amend the " Minimum Requirements for 100 MBBS Admissions Annually

Regulations, 1999 " namely:-

1. These regulations may be called the " Minimum Requirements for 100

MBBS Admissions Annually Regulations (Amendment), 2008 – Part-II " .

2. In the " Minimum Requirements for 100 MBBS Admissions Annually

Regulations, 1999 " , the following additions / modifications /

deletions / substitutions, shall be, as indicated therein:-

3(i). In Schedule I Clause A.1.1 under the heading `CAMPUS' shall be

substituted with the following: -

" Companies registered under Company Act may also be allowed to open

medical colleges. Permission shall be withdrawn if the colleges

resort to commercialization.

The medical college or medical institution shall be housed in a

unitary campus of not less than 25 acres of land. However, this may

be relaxed in a place especially in Urban areas where the population

is more than 25 lakhs, hilly areas, and notified tribal areas where

the land shall not be in more than two pieces and the distance

between the two pieces shall not be more than 10 kms. The hospital,

college building including library and hostels for the students,

interns, PGs/Residents and nurses shall be in one piece of land

which shall not be less than 10 acres. Other facilities may be

housed in the other piece of land. Proper landscaping should be

done. "

(ii). In Schedule I Clause A.1.4 under the heading `Central

Library', shall be substituted with the following: -

" There shall be an air-conditioned Central Library (1600 Sq.m) with

seating arrangement for at least 200 students for reading and having

good lighting and ventilation and space for stocking and display of

books and journals. There shall be one room for 100 students inside

and one room for 100 students outside. It should have not less than

7000 text and reference books. In a new medical college the total

number of books should be proportionately divided on yearly basis in

five years. The number of journals shall be 100 out of which one-

third shall be foreign journals and subscribed on continuous basis.

The number of copies of textbooks in each subject of undergraduate

teaching shall be ten.

There shall be provision for –

a. Staff reading room for 20 persons;

b. Rooms for librarian and other staff;

c. Journal room;

d. Room for copying facilities;

e. Video and Cassette room (desirable);

f. Air-conditioned Computer room with Medlar and Internet facility

with minimum of 25 nodes.

Medical colleges should have skill labs and adopt information

technology in teaching medicine. There shall be provision for e-

library also. "

(iii). In Schedule I Clause A.1.5 under the heading `Lecture

Theatres', shall be substituted with the following: -

" There shall be a minimum of three lecture theatres preferably air

conditioned, of gallery type in the Institution out of which two

will be of seating capacity for 120 students and one will be of

capacity for 250 students each. Lecture theatre shall be provided

with necessary independent audio-visual aids including overhead

projector, slide projector, LCD projector and a microphone. These

lecture theatres shall be shared by all the departments in a

programmed manner. There shall be provision for E-class. Lecture

halls must have facilities for conversion into E-class/Virtual class

for teaching. The existing colleges shall introduce these facilities

in their lecture hall within one year. "

(iv). In Schedule I after Clause A.1.18, the following shall be

added: -

" A.1.19 Central Research Laboratory

There shall be one well-equipped Central Research Laboratory in the

medical college, which will be under the control of the Dean of the

college. The existing colleges shall install the laboratory within

two years. Each medical college shall have Pharmaco-Vigilance

Committee.

A.1.20 Training of teacher in Medical Education Unit.

The period of training of a teacher in a Medical Education Unit

shall be increased from one week to two weeks.

A.1.21 Rural Health Training Centre

Every medical college shall have one rural health training centre

under Administrative control of Dean of the college for training of

students in community oriented primary health care and rural based

health education for the rural community attached to it. This health

centre shall be within a distance of 30 km. or within one hour of

commuting distance from the medical college. Separate residential

arrangements for boys, girls and interns with mess facilities shall

also be provided. Adequate transport (both for staff and students)

shall be provided for carrying out field work and teaching and

training activities by the department of Community Medicine. "

4(i). In Schedule I Clause B.1.1 under the heading `General Remarks'

shall be substituted with the following: -

" A functional teaching hospital with 300 beds with at least 70%

indoor bed occupancy should be available. There should be 80% bed

occupancy at the time of inspection for first renewal and thereafter

for subsequent renewals.

Lifts for the patients and ramp for fire protective services and for

handicapped persons shall be provided in the hospital at the time of

letter of permission. An electric generator of not less than 700 KVA

shall be provided. A play area including T.V., Music, Toys, Books,

etc. shall be provided for Peadiatric patients. All the teaching

hospitals shall be under the academic, administrative and

disciplinary control of the Dean/ Principal/Director who shall not

be concurrently Head of Department but can be a component of

teaching faculty in the concerned respective department. "

(ii). In Schedule I Clause B.2.1 the following shall be added: -

" 7. Accommodation in general ward shall not exceed 30 patients hall

and distance between two beds shall not be less than 1.5 meters. "

(iii). In Schedule I Clause B.5 under the heading `CENTRAL CASUALTY

DEPARTMENT' shall be substituted with the following: -

" There shall be well equipped and updated intensive care unit

(I.C.U) -5 beds, Intensive Coronary Care Unit (I.C.C.U.)-5 beds,

Intensive Care Paediatric/Neonatal Unit -5 beds and preferably

Intensive Care in Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. The number

of beds in casualty trauma unit shall be 20. ICU should be located

near casualty. These shall be functional at the time of inception of

the college. "

5. In Schedule II after Clause 6 under the heading `DEPARTMENTWISE

STAFF REQUIREMENTS – NON- CLINICAL' shall be substituted with the

following: -

" DEPARTMENTWISE STAFF REQUIREMENTS - NON-CLINICAL

(1) DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY

1. Professor 1

2. Assoc. Prof. 1

3. Asstt. Prof. 2

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 4

5. Technician 1

6. Dissection Hall Attendants 4

7. Store Keeper cum Clerk-cum Computer Operator 1

8. Sweepers 2

(2) DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof 1

3 Asstt. Prof. 2

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 4

5. Technician 1

6 Store Keeper cum clerk cum Computer operator 1

7 Sweepers 2

(3) DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 1

3 Asstt. Prof. 1

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 4

5 Technical Asstt./Technician 2

6. Store-Keeper cum clerk cum Computer operator 1

7. Sweepers 2

8. Lab Attendant 1

(4) DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 2

3 Asstt. Prof. 3

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 5

5 Technical Asstt./Technician 4

6 Lab. Attendants 2

7 Steno cum Computer Operator 1

8 Store Keeper cum Record Keeper 1

9. Sweepers 2

(5) DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 1

3 Asstt. Prof. 2

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 3

5 Technical Asstt./Technician 7

6 Lab. Attendants 2

7 Store Keeper cum Record clerk 1

8 Steno cum Computer Operator 1

9 Sweepers 2

(6) DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 1

3. Asstt. Prof. 2

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 2

5. Laboratory Attendants 2

6. Store Keeper cum clerk cum Computer operator. 1

7. Sweepers 2

(7) DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 1

3 Asstt. Prof. 1

4 Tutors/Demonstrator s 2

5 Technical Asstt./Technician 2

6 Laboratory Attendants 2

7 Steno Typist 1

8 Store Keeper cum clerk cum Computer Operator 1

9 Sweepers 4

Note:- 1. In case of postmortem work of more than 500 annually, two

additional Tutors/Demonstrator s shall be provided.

(8) DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE

1 Professor 1

2 Assoc. Prof. 2

3 Asstt. Prof. 2

4. Epidemiologist- cum-Assistant Professor 1

5 Statistician- cum-Assistant Professor 1

6 Tutors/Demonstrator s 4

7 Medical Social Worker 1

8 Technical Asstt./Technicians 1

9 Stenographers 1

10 Record keeper cum clerk cum Computer Operator 1

11 Store Keeper 1

12 Sweepers 1

Staff for Rural Training Health Centre (including field work and

epidemiological studies.)

1 Medical Officer of Health-cum-lecturer /

Assistant Professor. 1

2 Lady Medical Officer 1

3 Medical Social Workers 2

4 Public Health Nurse 1

5 Health Inspector/Health Assistant (Male) 1

6 Health Educator 1

7 Technical Asstt./Technician 1

8 Peon 1

9 Van Driver 1

10 Store Keeper cum Record Clerk 1

11. Sweepers 2

Urban Training Health Centre

1. Medical officer of Health-cum-Lecturer / 1

Assistant Professor

2. Lady Medical Officer 1

3. Medical Social Workers 2

4. Public Health Nurse 1

5. Health Inspectors 2

6. Health Educator 1

7. Technical Assistant/Technicia ns 2

8. Peon 1

9. Van Driver 1

10. Store Keeper 1

11. Record Clerk 1

12. Sweepers 2

Note: The Urban and Rural Training Health Centres should be under

the direct administrative control of the Dean/Principal of the

college. "

[Lt. Col.(Retd.) Dr. A.R.N. Setalvad]

Secretary

Medical Council of India

Foot Note : The Principal Regulations namely, " Minimum Requirements

for 100 MBBS Admissions Annually Regulations, 1999 " were published

in Part – III, Section (4) of the Gazette of India on the 29th

April, 1999, vide Medical Council of India Notification No. 35

(1)/1998-Med. (ii) dated the 30th March, 1999 and amended vide

corrigendum dated 24th June,1999 and further amended vide

Notification dated 20th October, 2008

Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to

http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/