Not a case for social triage

I request the author of the letter “Institutions should take responsibility for student suicides” to refrain from passing unwarranted judgement on a matter that is still before the courts. It is premature to implicate the medical education system and its institutions for a possible role in the untimely death of Dr Payal Tadvi.

What is wrong with the MCI.

n the wake of the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) take on the promotion of faculty recently, it is clear that the faculty of medical institutions across the country are in a state of alarm. A situation in which the whole onus of research is put on the faculty is quite quirky when there is no consideration of the fact that most medical colleges in India do not have a system of intramural funding, apt infrastructure and a pertinent environment for carrying out good research.