The Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) would soon start post graduation (PG) courses in many basic and medical sciences. The teams of the Medical Council of India (MCI) visited the medical college and associated hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday. The teams inspected the facilities and other infrastructure of the college for starting the PG courses. The MCI also sought details about the faculty members of the college. On the report submitted by these teams, the MCI would recommend initiation of the PG courses in the college to the union ministry of medical health and family welfare.
The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Ashutosh Sayana told The Pioneer that the college intends to start PG courses in Anatomy, Physiology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine and Pathology to start with. He said that the MCI team seemed satisfied with the facilities and faculty and the college would face no problem in getting the necessary recognition. At present the medical college Haldwani has 65 seats in the PG courses.
Most recent of the three government medical colleges of Uttarakhand, the GDMC got permission to start MBBS classes in the year 2016 after it got Letter of Permission (LOP) by Ministry of health and family welfare, government of India on the basis of MCI report. The college at present has 150 seats in the first year of MBBS course. Four batches of the MBBS students are at present enrolled in the college and it has started the process to seek approval of MCI for the fifth batch of the MBBS students.
The college would have to continuously upgrade the facilities in the associated hospital and medical college for these renewals. The GDMC would have to eventually upgrade itself from the present 300 bed associated hospital to 750 bed one.
