The Functioning of Medical Council of India

The report examines the role and functioning of Medical Council of India with the ultimate aim of suggesting veritable solutions to the inadequacies that are currently plaguing our medical education and health care delivery systems, which include failure of the current system to produce doctors including specialists and super specialists in adequate numbers and of requisite quality, deficiency of teachers in medical colleges, poor regulation of Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) education, disconnect between medical education system and health system, opacity in the functioning of the existing regulatory body of medical education (i.e. Medical Council of India), constitution and composition of the MCI, absence of proper screening and admission procedures in private medical colleges and so forth.