Certain post-graduate medical courses in pre and para-medical specialisations such as anatomy-physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry and microbiology attract very few candidates, with the result that several seats remain vacant. Such courses make you eligible for research and for being a faculty to teach the subjects. This is not a very attractive proposition.

The seats which are in demand are clinical stream seats. Even diploma seats have few takers. To make the pre and para-medical seats more attractive, these subjects must add a clinical component. The government and NMC must think on these line and take steps to do so.

The departments in medical faculty have more percentage of desirable faculty members and lesser percentage of aspirational faculty members. If both these are clubbed together for para medical subjects, the overall manpower requirements of the department would increase, and would open up opportunities for these students.

A combined MD, Ph D programme can be launched which makes the Ph.D. scholar earn scholarship per month after PG itself automatically.

A PG Pharmacology student can be given training Product Management to make him/her eligible for corporate jobs in pharma companies. Microbiology students can be trained in Industrial Microbiology to make them employable.