Digital seminars briefing medicos about NEET PG can help avoid a lot of confusion before the entrance exam
With the worry among students about the upcoming NEET exam for medical admission, mass digital seminars may be the way to reach a larger audience — especially medicos looking at PG admissions. A digital seminar was organised to help students understand NEET PG recently by Dr Sumer Sethi, the director of Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences (DAMS). Beamed through satellite links in the 128 DAMS centres across the country including Chennai, Pondicherry, Bengaluru, Hubballi, Kochi and others, as many as 20,000 students attended this seminar — the news of which was spread through social media. “There was a trend in the South to study for state exam alone. Now with just one central exam, this will soon change,” says Dr Sethi. The aim of this seminar was to acquaint students with the paper that encompasses medical topics like radiology, pathology and more.
As per the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, with effect from 2017 admission session, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for admission to Postgraduate medical courses (NEET PG) is a single window entrance examination for MD/MS/PG diploma courses to be conducted by National Board Examination (NBE). Sethi puts it more simply. “For the first time in India, doctors who want to pursue PG don’t need to study for their respective state-level PG exam. Centrally, there exists just one exam now — the NEET PG,” explains 39-year-old Dr Sethi, crediting the government for this initiative.
But this is not all. The exam is going to be computer-based, which expands the scope of questions. “The questions will be clinical-oriented. There will also be visual questions utilising X-rays and CT scans. Questions from previous years will not be repeated either,” he elaborates, adding that the exam will begin from December 3. Dr Sethi, who himself has been an All-India topper in 2000, also intended to give tips through this seminar. “Medical exams have been happening in the old, traditional paper-based way for far too long. It was time that this initiative took place,” Dr Sethi said in conclusion.
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