I don't think the governing body of medicine in India,or anywhere else in the world has got it right.Instead of producing a Doctor who is truly caring and interested in the welfare of patients,as well as one who has a real zeal for the residency he is pursuing,residents come out at the end of their course cynical,battered and only interested in making money,and fucking soon at that.

Which is why people say that Doctors are money minded,which is why doctors may not be as good listeners as what they were previously,in the era when our parents were kids.

Because for a medical student to who wants a subject of his choice,say,Pediatrics or Surgery,getting it is a Herculian task.He will be told many times over "Better be willing to compromise". And he will eventually end up with a subject that is not of his immediate liking-say ENT. Because the system dictates that only the brightest/most hardworking/intelligent get in,as do people who have one crore of money to pay up the exhorbitant capitation fees demanded by most of the private institutes nowadays.People in the middle are fucked. And they end up pissed at their jobs,and wish they hadn't joined Medicine in the first place.

Why is it considered an unholy sin to actually get what you want? For an average student with some brains and intelligence and who will be willing to work hard at the field he is in,to get the subject of his choice and be in a much better position to be a better Doctor to his patients?

Because there are too many ungergraduate seats and hardly any post graduate ones.If that is the case then the number of seats for the MBBS course should be halved,so that the ratio of an MD seat for an MBBS one is about 1:3,and not like 1:30 like how it is now. Sadly,a lot of the money for a hospital's basic needs are supplied by the fees that the Undergraduate students pay. Which is why their number won't ever be reduced. Sad,but true.I'm speaking from the perspective of a college like the one I studied in.

The other alternative is to increase the number of MD seatds,but that also will prove an impossibility because the ratio of resident to faculty should be 1:1,and considering how shitty the pay for faculty in a teaching hospital is,it will be a much better,and more just world,if their numbers were to increase.

Thanks for listening.