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According to the draft minimum standards released by the National Medical Commission (NMC), hospitals wishing to start postgraduate medical courses should have at least 200 beds, of which 75 per cent should be occupied by inpatients throughout the year. The NMC said that in departments offering post-graduate training, at least 15 per cent of the total beds should be intensive care unit (ICU) beds or high dependency unit (HDU) beds exclusively for that department.
The guidelines for the year 2023 state that four functional departments of biochemistry, pathology, microbiology and radiodiagnosis will be mandatory in hospitals, on which the NMC has sought comments from the public till September 15. Faculty, infrastructure and other staff in radio-diagnosis, anaesthesia, pathology, microbiology and biochemistry departments will be increased as the number of beds in such hospitals will increase.
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Even if the workload in the department increases, the faculty and infrastructure will increase proportionately.
According to the guidelines, every teaching department should have a teaching room in which teaching activities such as clinical case discussions and demonstrations can be conducted for sufficient students.