WORLD HEALTH DAY 2009
Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies.



World Health Day 2009 focuses on the safety of health facilities and the readiness of health workers who treat those affected by emergencies.
Health centres and staff are critical lifelines for vulnerable people in disasters - treating injuries, preventing illnesses and caring for people's health needs.
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One Year Rural Posting Mandatory for PG Medical Students: Central Government
The Centre has taken a major step towards ensuring the availability of doctors in rural areas. It has made one-year combined rural posting mandatory for all doctors seeking a post-graduation in India. The new ruling is applicable to students from the next academic session onwards.

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Rural India to get more docs
It has become obligatory for all MBBS pass-outs applying for post-graduation to do a combined rural posting for four months each in primary health centres, community health centres and district hospitals under the state government.
The rural posting has been made compulsory for the postgraduate medical aspirants only and not for the doctors wishing to enter into practice.

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Open varsity degree not equal to regular PG: apex court
Postgraduate degrees awarded by open universities under the distance education programme to students who did not have the basic three-year degree could not be treated on a par with PG degrees obtained after regular study from a recognised university, the Supreme Court held on Wednesday.

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No PG degree unless student completes 3-year graduation: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has upheld a UGC rule which says that no student shall be eligible for a Masters degree, including under the Open University System (OUS), unless he or she has successfully completes a three-year degree course.

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Emergency medicine residency towards the MCEM exam can now be done at various Apollo Hospitals in the country.
Apollo Health City, Hyderabad has been training EM residents and conducting the MCEM part A entry and part B & C exit exam since June 2005.
The other Apollo Hospitals where EM residency can be done are

Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad
Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai

However, the exam center for all parts of the exam will remain at Hyderabad.
The official dates from when the residencies can commence at various institutes have not been announced yet.
It is recommended to contact the respective Heads of Emergency Medicine departments for more information.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE!

This is to inform our readers and visitors that this site will go offline in the next couple of days and will remain unreachable for a period of 48 to 96 hours. We are performing a major technical upgrade on our servers and will be back with a brand new look. We strive to keep this site running at its best for the growth of emergency medicine in India!

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Dr. Imron Subhan
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UPDATE! (FEB 27 2009)
We have sucessfully transferred the website to a new and more efficient server.
This took a longer time than expected. But the major work is over.
We still have some more tweaking to do.

UPDATE! (MAR 08 2009)
We have completed all website maintainence opeations.