Certificate Course(Diabetes) for Rural Doctors
Posted on October 3, 2008 in Education by Shayani
Madras Medical College introduced a short course in diabetes. This course is aimed at doctors who come from a rural background. The course includes all the latest developments taking place in the field of diabetes so tat the doctors are better equipped to combat it.
The introduction for such a training was welcome because patients from villages had to flock to cities in order to get treated all these years.
Distance Mode
The course is designed in such a way that it can be taught by expert diabetologists in the distance mode.Contact classes is to be held for a couple of days per month at the selected colleges.
Courses Offered At:
The course is being offered at Kilpauk Medical College, MMC and some government medical colleges in Madurai and Thanjavur.
Madras Medical College (MMC) is the pioneer who offered a course in diabetes. It is only six months that Medical Council (India) has recognized the course.
Need For Such A Course
The incidence of diabetes causes kidney failure, heart attacks to name the most fatal diseases. Diabetes should be taken more seriously in order to stop the other diseases from occuring in the patients because of it. This course will help rural doctors to trace out the causes behind related diseases and treat them better.
Even with 60 trained doctors the authorities of the hospital attached to MMC are finding it difficult to help the influx of patients. The hospital needs more doctors. The hospital provides a thirty bedded ward only for dealing with diabetology complications. The cases are often referred by other departments of the hospital and the state also.
The Government is going to gain a lot in the long run as it is a fight for victory against a very deadly disease which take lives of many, annually.
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October 24th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Such course is the need of the hour. I am interested to know more about it.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Iam looking for such type of course as i am interested in diabetes & want to practise in the same speciality.please let me know the details.