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YEAR: 1970

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Medical education and family planning---III. What departments of preventive

and social medicine are doing in India.

AUTHORS

Rice DT

SOURCE

Indian Journal of Medical Education 9: 1-7. January 1970.

ABSTRACT

Medical colleges in India have been urged to increase the quality and quantity of teaching on population dynamics

and family welfare planning since 1957. The recommendations of the Deans and Principals Conference of August

1967 and the directive of the Medical Council of India issued in August of 1968 outline a syllabus and present many

suggestions about the ways in which a number of departments should contribute to the teaching of these subjects

during the years of the undergraduate medical curriculum. The Preventive and Social Medicine (P and SM)

department is involved in teaching these subjects. In order to determine to what extent the recommendations and

directives were being implemented, a questionnaire was sent to the head of the department of P and SM in each of

the 93 medical schools in India to ask what that department had done in the 1968-1969 academic year. It was

determined that the departments of P and SM were devoting an average of 10.8 holrs of lecture or class discussion to

teaching family welfare planning and population dynamics. Many departments said they needed more books in the

field. About 40% were conducting research on 1 or more related topics. Questions on the subjects were included in

examinations by 90% of the departments in their college exams and 75% said that questions on these topics

appeared on the written University examinations. 73% of the departments used A-V aids in their teaching of family

welfare planning and the same proportion utilized seminars. 1 department required students to insert an IUCD.

However, in the internship, 17 departments required women to do so and 7 required men to do 1 or more insertions. 2

departments made it a requirement during the final year to assist tubectomy operations, and 9 departments did so

during the internship. 1 department required final year students to do a vasectomy. During internship, 16 required

men to do 1 or more vasectomies, and 7 required women to. Shortage of staff was the most frequent difficulty

mentioned for implementing the suggested syllabus. The most frequent suggestion for improving teaching was the

development of more adequate teaching family welfare planning clinics. It was concluded that compared with

departments of P and SM in other countries, the ones in India were devoting a significant, and perhaps an adequate,

amount of time to the teaching of family welfare planning and population dynamics. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT8T 4560-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Medical education and family planning---III. What

departments of preventive and social medicine are doing in India.", is(are) Rice DT. The source of this article is

"Indian Journal of Medical Education 9: 1-7. January 1970.". This article was published in 1970 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 4560-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 39560

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