Each year, the 5 premier tertiary-care medical colleges in Kolkata produce a total of 250 MBBS graduates each. Yet, only about 120 secure Housestaffship roles.
Interns, instead of gaining vital skills in Emergency Medicine, ICUs, ICCUs, are relegated to blood draws and paperwork due to lack of infrastructure, group D staffs and Phlebotomist in Ward.
✅ This results in
🔸Fresh MBBS doctors unfit for doing RMO/ICU Duty roles
🔸No Housephysician postings for all
🔸An unexpected phase of medical unemployment as not every fresh grad will secure NEET PG Seats
✅ To counter the situation
🔸 Government must start recruiting GDMOs regularly
🔸 Internship Postings should offer training under senior consultants, not only Post Graduate Trainees in HDU, ITU, ICU and ICCU set ups.
🔸The government can consider partnering with private hospitals across Kolkata to offer structured, paid stipendary training programs—especially focused on ICU and ICCU exposure—for recently graduated fresh MBBS interns.
🔸Even if offered at a nominal course fees, this initiative wouldn’t be for the benefit of hospitals, but rather to make our young medical graduates truly health industry-ready.
🔸While a portion of each batch secures traditional Housephysician roles, this initiative can create a parallel pathway for the rest—providing critical hands-on experience in high-stakes clinical environments that are often missing from internships.
This could be a much-needed step toward strengthening the next generation of young doctors.
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