Protest against exit test

January 10, 2017 09:07 pm | Updated January 11, 2017 08:16 am IST - COIMBATORE:

Government doctors, and medical college students taking out a rally in Coimbatore on Tuesday

Government doctors, and medical college students taking out a rally in Coimbatore on Tuesday

The district unit of the Tamilnadu Government Doctors Association on Tuesday formed a human chain and marched to the Collectorate in protest against the National Exit Test.

The association submitted a petition to the district administration to be forwarded to the Union Government.

The district unit’s president N. Ravishankar said that the exit test was unnecessary for those who have completed four-and-a-half years education and an year’s practical training at a hospital. It would apply more to those candidates who had completed medical education abroad.

This move would dissuade students from pursuing a career in medicine and would further reduce the doctor to people ratio which now stood at 1:10,000.

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