BHUBANESWAR: Seats of post-graduate and super specialist courses have increased in all the three government medical colleges and hospitals in the State. The number of PG seats has gone up by 76 and super specialist seats by eight.
This follows after Centre’s modification of the teacher-student ratio for these courses in medical colleges from 1:1 to 1:2.
While PG seats have increased by 36 in SCB Medical, Cuttack, the number has gone up by 20 each in VSS Medical, Burla and MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur.
Seats for super specialist course in SCB have increased by eight. This includes four in DM (cardiology) and one each in neuro-surgery, paediatric surgery, plastic surgery and urology. According to the Health and Family Welfare department, admission for the increased seats will be held from the 2010-11 academic year. Earlier, the medical colleges had 246 PG seats.
The State Government also upgraded the dental wing of the SCB Medical to an independent Dental College and Hospital. This has been named as the SCB Dental College and Hospital. A notification to this effect was issued by the Health and Family Welfare department here on Friday.