Institutions being encouraged to take up clinical research: Vice-Chancellor

State willing to support medical fraternity, says Minister for Mines

ONGOLE: Health University Vice-Chancellor A.V. Krishnam Raju has felt that continuing medical education (CME) should be made compulsory for all doctors and their credit ratings be reviewed once in five years.

Inaugurating the State-level conference of the Indian Medical Association here on Sunday, Dr. Krishnam Raju said that medical science was making rapid strides in all specialities and doctors should not content themselves with the knowledge they had acquired in colleges decades ago.

They should update their knowledge by attending CME programmes regularly. He wanted regulatory bodies to consider making it compulsory for doctors to attend CME programmes and acquire stipulated grades.

Saying that the health university had been encouraging institutions to take up clinical research, he exhorted private practitioners too to do some research in their own clinics.

Indian Medical Association secretary-general Dharam Prakash said that continuing medical education was one of the objectives of the IMA and said that every branch was conducting some programme for the purpose.

PG medical seats

IMA State president N. Kishore, in his welcome address, said that the post-graduate seats available in the State were disproportionately smaller than graduate seats.

He urged the university to sanction more post-graduate medical colleges in the State to meet the demand.

Minister for Mines Balineni Srinivasa Reddy felicitated medical practitioners above 70 years of age in the district. The Minister said that the government would extend all support to the medical fraternity.

He pointed out that Andhra Pradesh was the first State to make any attack on private nursing homes a non-bailable offence.