Private medical education to get cheaper, govt readies Bill

The government has finalised a draft legislation to reduce the cost of private medical education, ease the burden of entrance exams on students and create a mid-level health cadre with limited rights to prescribe drugs. The National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019, which began its journey in 2016 with Niti Aayog presenting the first draft, is learnt to have been finalised by the Health Ministry and is expected to be tabled for Cabinet approval soon.

The Bill, which broadly seeks to replace the Medical Council of India with a new medical education sector regulator — the NMC, for the first time, proposes a legal cap on fees charged by private medical education providers.

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Alaska senators say time running out on funding for scholarships, medical education, Power Cost Equalization

State senators in Juneau raised alarm on Tuesday about the money swept from state budget accounts into a harder-to-access piggy bank: the Constitutional Budget Reserve.

Anchorage Democratic Sen. Bill Wielechowski was among those who said that if the Alaska Legislature doesn’t act soon, funds that pay for college scholarships, medical education and making rural power costs equal to those in urban areas will be gone.

“We can’t wait until August or September or October, because this is affecting Alaskans’ lives right now,” Wielechowski said on the Senate floor. “This will continue to affect Alaskans. Students are going back to school next month. Energy costs are going to skyrocket in the next couple of months for rural Alaskans. This is not something that we can delay.”

Viewpoint: Patient narratives should be part of medical education

Patient voices should play an integral role in healthcare professionals' education, according to an op-ed in BMJ written by researchers and a nonprofit leader.

The authors wrote patient narratives have not yet been fully integrated into medical education, which may be partly due to healthcare professionals' resistance to change. Yet patient narratives can provide unique insights that traditional medical educators cannot.