AKU defers MBBS exams, medicos want to be promoted – education

The Aryabhatta Data College (AKU) will defer the second skilled 2019 and the third skilled half-I 2019 (II) examinations in Bihar in view of coronavirus (Covid-19).

In a notification issued Monday, the AKU deferred these examinations “until additional orders”. The exams have been earlier scheduled to begin from July 28.

“The choice to defer the MBBS exams was taken by chairman of the examination board, who can also be AKU vice-chancellor, after dialogue with different members, together with exterior members from the division of science and expertise, authorities of Bihar,” mentioned AKU examination controller Rajeev Ranjan.

New dates for conducting these examinations would now be issued after receiving solutions by the state or central authorities or obligatory directives by the regulator, the Medical Council of India, Ranjan added.

“The choice to defer the examinations was taken based mostly on suggestion by medicos, a lot of whom have been stranded exterior the state. The medicos had expressed apprehensions of contracting Covid-19 in the event that they have been to journey again to seem for the exams,” added Ranjan.

The Hindustan Instances had on June 28 carried a information report titled “Medicos irked as AKU proclaims examination dates amid rising Covid circumstances”.

Medicos of intermediate semesters, nevertheless, should not glad by the AKU determination. They want the college to promote them to the subsequent semester based mostly on marks obtained in earlier semesters and are bracing up to search authorized treatment.

Barring MBBS and dental, the AKU has already postponed examinations and determined to promote to the subsequent semester all college students of B.Tech, B.Pharma, BBA, B.Com and BMC amongst different programs.

“As per the AKU itinerary, our MBBS second skilled exams have been scheduled in January, this yr. Nonetheless, they acquired delayed until July due to Covid-19. If the college defers the exams additional, we’ll proceed within the MBBS second yr for greater than two years, whereas the curriculum is of 1-and-a-half yr solely,” mentioned Kritika Singh, a second yr MBBS scholar of the Nalanda Medical Faculty Hospital (NMCH), caught in Delhi at current.

“Deferring the exams additional is not going to solely maintain us again in the identical class, but additionally go away us with little time to attend courses and put together for third skilled exams. As such, we’re demanding that the scholars be promoted internally,” she mentioned.

“Apart from, these whose earlier grades should not good and so they want to enhance ought to be allowed to achieve this when the pandemic eases,” mentioned Kritika, who has taken it upon herself to combat on behalf of the medicos.

Ranjan, nevertheless, mentioned any determination to promote the medicos with out conducting exams would have to be taken by the MCI.