Overview

• Non-teaching government hospitals with at least 220 beds can now register as teaching institutions nationwide
• Specialists and consultants with two years’ experience may be appointed assistant professors and those with ten years can become associate professors without completing senior residency
• MSc-PhD holders are now eligible to teach in Microbiology and Pharmacology departments and non-medical faculty caps in pre-clinical subjects have doubled to 30%
• Postgraduate courses can launch with just two faculty members and two seats, and new colleges may open undergraduate and postgraduate programs simultaneously
• Medical colleges and hospitals are gearing up to implement the rules even as professional bodies caution about maintaining teaching quality