The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
view point published in Hindu of 11 July- by Dr Usha Mohandas
Fresh dental graduates prefer joining call centres as staff! A majority lack the confidence to start private practice right after the completion of postgraduation attained by hardly attending classes! By all outward signs, the dental profession is prospering. However, signs of a looming crisis in dental education threaten the future effectiveness of the profession. Hope it is not moving into a phase of extinction from extraction!
The Dental Council of India (DCI) is a statutory body incorporated under an Act of Parliament: The Dentists Act, 1948 (XVI of 1948). Set up to regulate dental education, the DCI has failed to handle the challenges on many fronts.
The regulator claims authority but does not hold itself responsible or accountable for the debacle. It keeps complaining about mushrooming of colleges and shrinking of jobs; yet, it gives approval for more fresh colleges.
Does this mean that the regulator was ignorant of the level of saturation and the distribution of the 183 colleges in 2004? I quote the DCI president, who recently said: “There is no equal distribution of dental colleges. Take, for example, Australia with a two crore population. It has five dental schools. On the other hand, Kerala with a 2.5-crore population alone has 23 dental colleges, and still 6,000 posts of dentists in the Union Government are lying vacant.” Who accorded approval for these colleges knowing very well it was one too many? If any objection was made, how come it fell on deaf ears? Why has the proposal to start 100-plus institutions since 2004 been approved? Who is accountable, responsible and answerable for the lapses in oral health care delivery systems? MORE HERE
Fresh dental graduates prefer joining call centres as staff! A majority lack the confidence to start private practice right after the completion of postgraduation attained by hardly attending classes! By all outward signs, the dental profession is prospering. However, signs of a looming crisis in dental education threaten the future effectiveness of the profession. Hope it is not moving into a phase of extinction from extraction!
The Dental Council of India (DCI) is a statutory body incorporated under an Act of Parliament: The Dentists Act, 1948 (XVI of 1948). Set up to regulate dental education, the DCI has failed to handle the challenges on many fronts.
The regulator claims authority but does not hold itself responsible or accountable for the debacle. It keeps complaining about mushrooming of colleges and shrinking of jobs; yet, it gives approval for more fresh colleges.
Does this mean that the regulator was ignorant of the level of saturation and the distribution of the 183 colleges in 2004? I quote the DCI president, who recently said: “There is no equal distribution of dental colleges. Take, for example, Australia with a two crore population. It has five dental schools. On the other hand, Kerala with a 2.5-crore population alone has 23 dental colleges, and still 6,000 posts of dentists in the Union Government are lying vacant.” Who accorded approval for these colleges knowing very well it was one too many? If any objection was made, how come it fell on deaf ears? Why has the proposal to start 100-plus institutions since 2004 been approved? Who is accountable, responsible and answerable for the lapses in oral health care delivery systems? MORE HERE
posted by dentfaculty at 6:04 AM
4 Comments:
i would like to appreciate drusha mohandasss for having the courage to stand up for the truth....u have said what we have been trying to say all these years maam.....we r with u....
if we had more outspoken people like Dr Usha Mohandass Dentistry wouldnt be in the mess it is in. certain colleges are charging 40 to 50 lakhs for an MDS seat but their op has less patients than a busy private practitioner. high time there was a common entrance exam for all BDS and MDS seats in the country... but who is listening?
if we had more outspoken people like Dr Usha Mohandass Dentistry wouldnt be in the mess it is in. certain colleges are charging 40 to 50 lakhs for an MDS seat but their op has less patients than a busy private practitioner. high time there was a common entrance exam for all BDS and MDS seats in the country... but who is listening?
if we had more outspoken people like Dr Usha Mohandass Dentistry wouldnt be in the mess it is in. certain colleges are charging 40 to 50 lakhs for an MDS seat but their op has less patients than a busy private practitioner. high time there was a common entrance exam for all BDS and MDS seats in the country... but who is listening?
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