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COMEDK 2014 on Feb 2 at Bangalore only.

The cabinet is pondering the idea of a cadre of mid-level health practitioners, a plan that has been fiercely resisted by medical associations because they worry it will dilute the worth of MBBS graduates. It has also been recently rejected by the parliamentary standing committee on health, for allegedly creating two kinds of doctors, and consigning rural areas to the care of under-educated practitioners. On the other hand, the Union health ministry is backing the plan, as is the Planning Commission and a range of public health experts who recognise the urgent need to train medical professionals to serve in rural areas. The three-and-a-half year degree, originally called a Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery, has now been amended to BSc (community health) to placate the Medical Council of India. It will include a basic grounding in primary level management of diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, TB, diabetes etc, and these health officers would be able to refer complicated cases to ...

The West Bengal Postgraduate Medical Admission Test -2014 and the West Bengal Dental Admission Test-2014, to be conducted by the West Bengal University of Health Sciences has been tentatively fixed on Sunday, 19th January 2014 subject to favourable and acceptable legal, logistic and administrative circumstances. Details will follow in due course.  http://www.wbuhs.ac.in/

The Kerala state government has decided to conduct the admission for Medical PG (degree, diploma) in the state for the academic year 2014 based on the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE) conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE). The candidates who aspire for admission in various state quota, including service quota, also need to apply for the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE). The state governmnet has also informed that the Dental PG admission for 2014 will also be based on rank list of the All Indian Entrance Exam. There will be no state-level exam for the same. Further details will be made available from November 4 on Medical Educational Director's website. The NBE will conduct the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE) for 2014 in 38 cities between November 25 and December 6. The examination is conducted for admission to the all-India 50 per cent quota in MD/MS/PG diploma co...