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their main concern is, what will their future be like?

​Indian students from Ukraine have safely landed in India but...

​These students have filed a case in the supreme court asking for a quick resolution.

You have been assigned as the judge for the case. So let's put your robes on and get the hearing started.​

Multiple Choice

What should be the first step you would ask the government to take?

• Ask the students to appear for an entrance exam

• Ask the students to enroll themselves in private medical colleges

• Understand the number of students and the specializations to find college capacity for them

• Ask the students to wait for the war to end and then go back

​Firstly, it's important to understand how many students can be easily accommodated in the Indian medical education system. For this, we need to prepare data on their specializations and the level of their education.

​Understand the number of students and the specializations to find college capacity for them.

Multiple Choice

The government has prepared a list of 12,000 medical undergraduate students, at different stages of their six-year MBBS program, who have come from Ukraine. Considering that the duration of MBBS in India is 5 years and the curriculum is also different from Ukraine, how would you accommodate these students assuming the war will end in a year?

• Ask the students to take extra classes and get adjusted to the new curriculum

• Change the curriculum of the Indian colleges

• Collaborate with the Ukrainian colleges and come up with a curriculum, specifically for these students

• Ask the students to wait till the war ends

​Collaborate with the Ukrainian colleges and come up with a temporary curriculum, specifically for these students.

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​The government should collaborate with Ukrainian medical colleges to design a curriculum. This curriculum should be followed only for these students till the war ends and the situation gets back to normal.

​The government has prepared a temporary curriculum to accommodate the students in the Indian medical system till the war ends.

Now, let's look at the data received from the National Medical Council ​about the no. of medical seats in India.

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​As per the data shared by the National Medical Council (NMC), each year only 1,00,000 medical seats are offered to students.

Multiple Choice

The total duration of the MBBS course in India is 5 years. How many seats are there in all 5 years in the government colleges?

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• 1,50,000

• 3,00,000

• 3,50,000

• 5,00,000

​3,50,000 seats.

​Calculation:

• As the data suggests, there are a total of 1,00,000 seats each year​.

• ​70% of these are in government colleges, i.e., 70,000 seats.

• Thus, in all 5 years total seats = 70,000*5= 3,50,000 seats.​

Multiple Choice

There are no vacant seats in any of the government colleges and the private colleges are not willing to accommodate any students.

Under these circumstances, how many seats are required in government colleges in all 5 years to accommodate 12,000 students?

• 50,000

• 65,000

• 70,000

• 72,400

72,400 seats.

​Calculation:

• As the data suggests, there are a total of 70,000 seats in govt. colleges in each year

• To accommodate 12,000 students, we need to create equal capacity in all 5 years, i.e., 12,000/5= 2400 seats should be added in each academic year.

• Thus, the total seats ​required in government colleges= 70,000+2,400= 72,400 seats per year.

Multiple Choice

The education in any government college is subsidized as the government bears the expenses for the students. If per student government bears ₹5 lacs, how much more money does the government require to accommodate 12,000 students?

• ₹500 crore

• ₹600 crore

• ₹700 crore

• ₹800 crore

​₹600 crores.

​Calculation:

• If, per student expense bourne by government= ₹5 lacs

• Then, ​money required for 12,000 students= ₹5 lacs *12,000= ₹600 crores

Multiple Choice

There is a huge crunch of funds and the government cannot subsidize the education of these 12,000 students.

Under these circumstances, what would you do?

• Force the government to release more funds

• The students should be asked to pay the fee on their own

• The students should pay the same fee as they were paying in Ukraine and any extra amount should be paid by the government

• The Indian students already studying in these govt. colleges should share the fee

​The students should pay the same fee as they were paying in Ukraine and any extra amount should be paid by the government.

The students should pay the same academic fee as they paid to the Ukrainian colleges, to reduce the financial burden on the government.

The Indian students already studying in these colleges have cleared the necessary examinations, so asking them to share the fee is not correct.​

​Wow! Good news has come from Ukraine.

The Ukraine government has announced that it will cancel the mandatory licensing exam and award MBBS degrees to all the final year students without having to take the exams once the situation normalizes.

Multiple Choice

The final year students will get the degree but to practice in India, it's important to clear the exam. Would you accept this degree and let the students practice in India?

• Ask the students to repeat their final year

• Accept the degree and let the students practice in India

• Ask the council to conduct a special exam to assess the students and accordingly let them practice or repeat the year

• Wait for the war to end and then take the decision

​Ask the council to conduct a special exam to assess the students and accordingly let them practice or repeat the year.

Accepting the degree without proper assessment is inappropriate. Thus, the court should ask the council to conduct a special exam to assess the students and based upon their performance decide their fate.

Poll

You just observed that there is an extreme shortage of seats in the medical field. What suggestions would you give to the government to avoid such problems in the future and create more opportunities for students to study in their own country?

• Build more government medical colleges

• Tie-up with private organizations and provide medical education at subsidized prices

• Partner with other countries to provide global educational opportunities

• Strengthen online medical education

All these suggestions are focused on improvising the medical education system of India. Thus, you can choose as many options as you like.

​You can select whichever you prefer the most.

​You truly are a Judge!

Hats off on your benchmark decision on this case.

Poll

Would you like to become a Judge one day?

• YES

• NO

• MAYBE

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On a scale of 1-5 (1 being the lowest and 5 highest), how much would you rate this challenge on fun and learning?

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Open Ended

What changes would you suggest for this challenge?