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Medicos need to be selfless and mindful of the needy: Tamil Nadu CM- 21-Aug-2013
Chennai: Apart from creating a healthy state and proactive in knowledge updation, Medicos need to be selfless and mindful of the needy, articulated Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalitha.
Speaking at the Silver Jubilee Convocation function of Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, she emphasized, that, "Medicos are being sent out on a mission – a mission to heal. Healing is an art as much as a science, and need to maintain fidelity to this mission.
The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, is committed to excellence and is emerging as a veritable powerhouse for harnessing top quality health professionals, and as a hub of biomedical research.
As the second largest Medical University in India, this University has been spearheading plans and ambitions to attain world standards in medical education. The University is in the process of using a more transparent, reliable and fair system of evaluation in medical, para medical, graduate and post graduate courses.
The University should aim at creating socially-conscious health professionals, mindful of the great task ahead of them. It should be the commitment of every medico to create the health care delivery system of the future, to educate the workforce of tomorrow, to establish an ideal learning environment, to focus on research endeavours, and consequently make a global impact.
Medical education needs to be planned and implemented, with full awareness of the aims and demands of the health care services, including consistent integration of the sciences of medical practice.
Every medical graduate should appreciate that learning is a continuous process, and knowledge should be periodically updated. The other important factor is for the University to have a community, industry and business interface, and to have exchange and collaborative linkages with other institutions.
The greates priority for the University, is to produce doctors, who possess high order professional skills, and are imbued with a sense of dedication, and public service. The menace posed by the corrosive commercialisation of medical education has to be warded off, and efforts should be made to ensure maintenance of standards, and check the growth of substandard medical colleges.
Medical education, in the current academic year alone, 410 additional MBBS seats have been allocated in Government Medical Colleges, taking the overall seats in Government Medical Colleges from 2145 to 2555 this year.
Keeping pace with the latest advances in the medical field, as the plethora of medical conditions in health care is becoming broader; the need for specialists in sub specialties and super specialties is growing today."
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister also reflected that earlier, medical graduates were leaving the country to obtain specialized training in their chosen subjects. Now the situation has changed. This University offers all concerned training. This is the first University in India to offer fellowship programmes in Medical, Surgical and Dental sub and super specialties. It is a matter of great pride that students from neighbouring countries are also keen on enrolling in our Fellowship Training Programmes.
Each one of you is idealistic and well motivated, and you have a mental image of being a physician, even though you may not yet know what this entails and have been given the tremendous responsibility of caring - Listening, showing kindness, warmth and sensitivity to the patient and his or her family’s needs, in addition to excellent clinical skills---these are the hallmarks of a caring physician.
It is a high and noble calling and are all called upon to make sacrifices, to make commitments.
While serving the communities medical graduate must be selfless and mindful of those most in need.
May the purity of thought in your minds, direct your hands, and guide your hearts, as you begin a life of service to others, she said.
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