Bridge courses are basically desperate attempts to quickly get non-MBBS medical professionals to practise medicine
India needs to cultivate a strong, informed public demand for better health care in alignment with real health needs
An impassioned address by the prime minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day carried hopes of a healthy India. Earlier, a flurry of excitement had accompanied the Union budget as the Ayushman Bharat mission and its flagship programme, the National Health Protection Scheme, were announced as part of the "New India-2022" vision.
Is Indian medical education eroding clinical empathy? A large body of evidence points to the importance of appreciating that the body is more than a mere assemblage of blood, bones, and muscles, and the mind more profound than just around 100 billion neurons at work. It also suggests that no matter how tempted we feel to separate the emotional being from the biological one, they are inextricably connected and affect each other.
