village internship programme

Medical students in the Capital are planning agitation over the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry’s latest proposal to add an extra year and a half to the five-and-a-half-year-long existing undergraduate medical degree course. The Government is proposing to add a “village internship programme” and “medical ethics course” to the existing undergraduate programme.Students are demanding that the Government expand its “rural internship network” and involve engineering students for building roads, architects for constructing houses and students from other courses of Delhi University to bring in all-round rural development.