Operational difficulties in M.B.B.S. 2nd professional course due to MCI regulations: Is MCI listening.

ABSTRACT

Students of 1st professional if failed during final exams are not allowed to attend classes of 2nd professional according to MCI rules. These students appear in supplementary exams of 1st professional and after clearing them, join 2nd professional late by 4-6 months. Here lies the operational difficulty conducting separate supplementary batch for them in 2nd professional is not feasible; and asking them to attend classes with regular batch is a cruelty to them as they will not gain anything when one-third syllabus and basic concepts in 2nd professional subjects have already been covered. Moreover, these supplementary students often rush to courts to have remedial measures-to allow them to appear with regular batch in 2nd professional exams. Sometimes their plea is allowed, sometimes it is dismissed. This paper discusses all these difficulties faced both by faculty and students and also suggest some remedial measures for kind consideration by MCI.