If this story is anything to go by, we as a country are in trouble. It not only reflects the sorry state of affairs in the medical education but our entire education system.
The Indian education system places more emphasis on bookish knowledge where cramming for a test and passing it is more important. Who cares if you do not remember what you have learned after you have passed the exam. Even in an engineering education curriculum, which I went through, emphasis was always on getting theoretical knowledge and cramming for the tests at the end of the semester. Never was it explained how what I was learning would be useful in the practical world.
If our colleges and Universities are to compete with the Harvard's, MIT's or the Cal Tech's of the world, if we need to propel India into the future as the destination of research and development and not just some back office service center, we need to reform our education system from the grass root level.
And it starts with having best and brightest of teachers who are paid competitive wages, who are enthusiastic about teaching, who care about what their wards learn.
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