BHOPAL: The medical education department has started working on CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announcement on R-Day that medical studies will be conducted in
Hindi in MP.
Medical education minister
Vishwas Kailash Sarang said the process of teaching medical courses in Hindi has begun, as per the CM’s promise, and instructions have been given to begin with Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal.
Sarang discussed with experts to promote the use of Hindi in the medical education curriculum and to prepare supplementary books in Hindi for first-year subjects. He held discussions with the vice-chancellor and registrar of Atal Bihari Hindi University and doctors of AIIMS Bhopal and GMC in the presence of commissioner, medical education. In the first phase, Hindi will be used more and more by medical teachers. First-year medical students will be assessed in both Hindi and English skills for two months each.
In the second phase, supplementary reference books of three subjects (
anatomy,
physiology and
bio-chemistry) of first-year
MBBS will be prepared in Hindi. Three committees have been formed for this.
A committee has been constituted to prepare an action plan for the use of Hindi in medical curriculum and preparation of supplementary reference books in Hindi. Guidance of Atal Bihari Hindi University will be obtained to give concrete shape to the action plan. This will ensure the implementation of this project.
A sub-committee was constituted to prepare supplementary reference books in Hindi on the subject of MBBS first year including Anatomy, Physiology and Bio-Chemistry. A verification sub-committee has also been constituted for refining the subject prepared in Hindi by the second sub-committee.