Medical Colleges, Schools and Hospitals in India

What Americans say about the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals.

The Place of Psychiatry in the Medical Colleges and Schools in India

Superintendent, European Mental Hospital, Ranchi As psychiatry is yearly earning a deeper significance in the theory and practice of medicine, I decided to circulate a questionnaire to the principals of all the medical colleges and schools in India to ascertain, if possible, what facilities exist for medical students in this country to acquire some knowledge of mental disorders. Replies were re...

Use of plastinated specimens in rural medical and nursing education: a novel solution.

Rural health care in India is predominantly served by primary and secondary hospitals. Secondary hospitals that have been running long term usually have a nursing school attached to them to provide a sustainable workforce of nurses. Thus, the nursing school becomes an integral component of a secondary hospital structure. The training of nurses includes a course on basic human anatomy. Although ...

The Place of Psychiatry in the Medical Colleges and Schools in India

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?I have read with interest Colonel Berkeley-Hill's article in the October (1932) issue of the Indian Medical Gazette entitled ' The Place of Psychiatry in the Medical Colleges and Schools in IndiaWith reference to his lines advocating the offering of facilities to students of medicine for the study of the actual cases of mental disorder (vide p. 583...

Need of Dental Colleges in India

No doubt there are certain qualified men from the continent whose advice and treatment only few could seek. There are also side by side unqualified men in the true sense who profess to be dentists and many of them are really doing more harm than good. Tropical schools are being opened in India, and I think early opening up of dental colleges will remove the longfelt need. At least one, if not m...