India's foreign medical graduates: an opportunity to correct India's physician shortage

Sharma, Anjali; Zodpey, Sanjay; Batra, Bipin

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“…5 The Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) serves as a benchmark for evaluating the competency of international medical graduates seeking to practice medicine in India. 6 In this study, we focus on leveraging ChatGPT version 3.5 and 4.0 capabilities to answer ophthalmology multiple choice questions from the FMGE and further with more short answer questions, examining its efficacy in providing accurate responses to complex clinical cases.…”

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An assessment of the capability of ChatGPT in solving clinical cases of ophthalmology using multiple choice and short answer questions

Alexander,

Somineni Raghupathy,

Surapaneni

2024

Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research

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An assessment of the capability of ChatGPT in solving clinical cases of ophthalmology using multiple choice and short answer questions

Alexander,

Somineni Raghupathy,

Surapaneni

2024

Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research

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“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, basic rheumatology training can be affected unless corrective measures are taken. It should be also kept in mind that many countries attract a large number of medical students and postgraduates from India where the number of aspirants for medical education greatly outnumbers the available seats [9]. The pandemic can halt Indian graduates from attending classes in various medical universities abroad.…”

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Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

2020

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unsettled conventional medical education, hastening a switch to digital platforms and open-access publishing. Rheumatology is a fast evolving academic discipline that stands to gain by this switch. Most rheumatology textbooks are now available in digital formats, and these are complemented with live updating educational hubs such as UpToDate and ClinicalKey. Emerging topics of COVID-19 on these proprietary platforms are now freely available to all specialists. Social media channels, particularly Twitter, are becoming major players in the era of COVID-19 by offering online journal clubs, enabling fast dissemination of influential articles, and facilitating interactive education. Indexed rheumatology journals, in turn, aid online education by opening access to recommendations and other materials that are rapidly changing research and practice worldwide. Research peer review additionally offers learning experience to novice and seasoned researchers and authors. Global rheumatology societies have online learning resources, which are changing their format and geographic reach to meet the changing needs in the times of pandemic. While online teaching lacks emotional connections between mentors and mentees, switch to a more interactive format of education and regular contacts may partly solve the issue. Rheumatologists can take the lead in these challenging times and contribute more to online scholarly activities which are aimed to maintain and enrich education.

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“…The National Medical Commission bill (NMC bill) was drafted in response to numerous concerns regarding the status of medical education and health care in India. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] It seeks to improve the standards of medical training, as well as address inequities in availability of trained healthcare professionals within the country. 16,17 Despite its reformist intentions, the NMC bill has been the subject of several protests by medical students and doctors across…”

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Medical students and the National Medical Commission bill: negativity and misinformation combine

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Sulfy

Shajahan

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the country, with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) leading the offensive. [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Despite the outrage, medical students seemed unfamiliar with actual content of the NMC bill. Therefore, we wanted to determine 1. The knowledge of, and attitude towards the NMC bill; 2. The factors influencing knowledge and attitude of medical students regarding the NMC bill. ABSTRACTBackground: The National Medical Commission bill (NMC bill) was drafted in response to concerns regarding medical education and healthcare in India. It seeks to reform medical education in India. However, a storm of protests by medical students and doctors erupted after it was tabled in parliament. This study was conducted to determine medical students" knowledge of, and attitude towards the NMC bill. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students in a private medical college in south India. A tool based on each section of the NMC bill was developed to assess knowledge. Attitude was assessed using a 5-point Likert scale. Separate knowledge and attitude scores were computed. Statistical analyses were performed using EZR (version 1.36). Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: Only 74 (31.49%) had adequate knowledge of the NMC bill. The major source of information regarding the NMC Bill was social media (191; 81.28%), followed by newspapers (107; 45.53%). Those who were aware of the amendments to the bill; and who received information about the bill from newspapers were significantly more likely to have adequate knowledge. Participation in IMA protest rally was significantly associated with negative attitude; belonging to main (regular) batch was significantly associated with positive attitude towards the bill. Superior knowledge was not associated with positive attitude towards the bill. Conclusions: Medical students lack knowledge about the NMC bill, but have strong negative attitude towards it. Negative attitude is significantly associated with participation in IMA protest rally against NMC bill.

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India's foreign medical graduates: an opportunity to correct India's physician shortage

Cited by 11 publications

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An assessment of the capability of ChatGPT in solving clinical cases of ophthalmology using multiple choice and short answer questions

An assessment of the capability of ChatGPT in solving clinical cases of ophthalmology using multiple choice and short answer questions

Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19

Medical students and the National Medical Commission bill: negativity and misinformation combine

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