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India set up a new body to fix medical education. It now needs to fix that body


Episode 372


Four years ago, India set up a new body to fix medical education. It was called the National Medical Commission (NMC) and it was meant to replace the Medical Council of India and bring reforms in this sector.  The goal, at the time, was to bring some order to the chaos. 


But so far, it seems like the body has only been able to do the opposite. Between vacancies, a series of poor decision and a general lack of coordination — the laundry list of criticism from people in the medical fraternity is only getting longer. 

It seems like the body that was meant to cure medical education in India, is dealing with a chronic illness of its own. But is it terminal?  


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