Rajiv Gandhi University plans medical college

Vijaya K - Bangalore

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) is planning to develop a campus of its own for advanced teaching, training and research in specialised fields of health sciences and have its own medical college in the near future.

RGUHS has introduced degree courses in paramedical courses and now plans to offer post graduation in the same disciplines. In order to set up ‘need based’ medical education system, the University is advising Medical Council of India to restructure the curriculum.

The University plans to introduce a bar code system for all the disciplines of health sciences so as to ensure transparency in medical examinations. The University’s venture Library Consortia will make accessible more than 600 e-journals to all its member-medical colleges.

“Our aim is to see that all the colleges will have access to have to about more than 2000 journals published world over. We are now planning to extend this to dental colleges too,” says Dr R Chandrashekhara, vice chancellor. As on today 313 medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy ayurveda, homoeopathy, unani, and paramedical colleges in the state of Karnataka are affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

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