Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 6: With regard to the implementation of the District Residency Program in J&K, GMC Srinagar as well as SKIMS have relieved the Post Graduates for three months who will now perform duties in peripheries.
In this connection, GMC Srinagar has asked its heads of the departments to relieve such PGs for the period so that they can join the program well in time. Apart from GMC, SKIMS has also relieved its PGs in order to join the residency program.
As per details that were shared, over 300 PGs currently enrolled for various specialities are going to be deployed in Kashmir Districts under the DRP, while as over 200 such doctors from Jammu are going to be deployed in Jammu Districts for the period of 3 months.
“In continuation to this office… and communication from Health & Medical Education Department…you are requested to relieve PG Students (2020) from your respective departments for the period Oct-Dec 2021enabling them to join the compulsory Residency Program,” reads the letter issued by the GMC.
As per the Post-Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2020, all postgraduate students pursuing MD/MS in broad specialities in all Medical Colleges are bound to undergo a compulsory residential rotation in the District Health System.
While as such rotation is going to take place in the 3rd, 4th 5th semester of the Postgraduate programme, to begin with, the Medical Colleges have now relieved the PG students of the Batch 2020 to join the program in the districts.
As per officials, the program is a part of the curriculum under which the PGs assist in the OPDs and also take up night duties in accordance with the duty roasters.
They said that while the PGs get to learn and understand the functioning of the healthcare system in the peripheries during their stay, they also help the existing manpower in the delivery of the healthcare services.
It is to be noted here that the completion of the program is mandatory for the doctors to appear in the final exams, while the program is being jointly coordinated by the Health & Medical Education Department and Directorate of Health Services, Jammu, Kashmir.
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