Ethics classes must for UP medical colleges’ doctors

LUCKNOW: All the medical colleges and institutes in the state will hold classes on medical ethics every month on second Saturday for junior and senior residents as well as the faculty, to make them more sensitive to patients' needs.
Principal secretary, medical education, Rajneesh Dubey told TOI that an order to this effect released on Monday underlines that the classes on re-inculcating a patientfriendly approach would not be just a formality, but at the time of promotions of faculty from the assistant to associate and from associate to professor, the certificate of participation would be given due weightage.
For junior and senior residents and the faculty participation in these seminars would be mandatory.
For long, medical education minister Suresh Khanna has been planning to introduce such classes.
For long, medical education minister Suresh Khanna has been planning to introduce such classes as he feels that “the doctor fraternity in the wake of growing materialism has forgotten basic medical ethics.” Khanna said that recently some senior faculty members tried to escape the Covid duty in Agra medical college on flimsy grounds. This was against medical ethics, the minister said adding that to avoid such incidents, which are blot on the medical profession, the government decided to start classes on medical ethics for doctors.
“Rampant commercialisation in the medical field has also compelled the government to start these classes,” Khanna said adding that “there is a chapter on ethics in the MBBS syllabus, but with the passage of time the subject loses its impact and needs to be reinforced among doctors.”