One of the suggestions is to make MBBS a 3-year course on
primary care with all subjects taught but with the intention of providing
primary GP medical care.
For example, have only six months of basic anatomy in
primary program and those who want to enter surgery get another three years of
education with one year of anatomy classes linked to surgery. Why should every
one learn all about advanced medicine including anatomy or physiology in MBBS?
Complete skeletal anatomy should be taught only to those who
opt for orthopedics post MBBS. Same is true for advanced eye anatomy.
One can have basic MBBS course in every district in the
country. For postgraduation they may have to enter a medical college.
In the US
Three-year programs generally are offered as an incentive
for students to pick primary care, in order to prevent shortages of primary care
doctors. Rather than having to spend two years taking basic courses and two
years of doing clinical work in different specialties to determine their
preferred fields, students in accelerated programs finish in three years
because they spend only one year doing clinical work as they already have
chosen primary care.
In nursing also, we have two courses: Basic Nursing and BSc
Nursing. A similar experimentation can be done in MBBS.
