Compulsory one-year MBBS rural posting begins 2015
Commencing academic year 2015-16, every MBBS student seeking admission to post-graduate medical courses in the country will have to undergo a mandatory rural posting at a PHC (Public Health Centre) for one year.
The initiative was taken to meet the shortfall of doctors in the country that includes lack of 2,489 doctors in the primary health centres.
As on March 31, 2013, there was a shortage of surgeons, obstetricians and gynaecologists, physicians and pediatricians in community health centres(CHCs) across India. In total, there was a shortfall of 13,477 specialists in CHCs in the country. Check out the data below:
| Specialty |
Shortage |
| Surgeons |
3,459 |
| Obstericians and Gynaecologists |
3,005 |
| Physicians |
3,667 |
| Pediatricians |
3,270 |
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