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Medicos falter at first hurdle
Nearly 30 per cent of the students have flunked in the MBBS Part-1 supplementary examinations.
What was surprising was that these students were taking a second shot at the exam, having failed with the first attempt.
But seasoned observers were not alarmed. They said a failure rate of 30-40 per cent was normal for the MBBS first-year batch every year.
It happens even in the top government and private colleges where the best Eamcet rankers get seats. From the second year onwards, the results improve: the failure rate comes down to 10 per cent.
Although several explanations are forwarded, nobody is able to pinpoint precisely why the state's best students ��� remember the brightest go in for medicine ��� have such an abysmal failure rate.
For many students, the first year of medical school is their first time away from home. Homesick, they find it hard to concentrate on studies.
"Some of them come from Telugu medium schools and take longer to adjust to medical lesson in English," says Gandhi Medical College vice-principal Dr Pradeep Deshpande.
A student who has just passed her fourth-year exam from Gandhi Medical College adds: "It takes four to five months to get adjusted to the new place, food and fellow students."
Most of the students fail in anatomy, which they say is a "vast subject". Teachers say the problem arises because students are suddenly exposed to the complexity of human anatomy as a practical concept after having learnt about it in a theoretical way in school. They just can't cope with it.
Then there are the NRI and management-quota students. "In my college, there are several NRI students who have studied all their life in a foreign country and hence are not accustomed to the language or the teaching methods here. They find it difficult to cope," said Deccan Medical College principal Dr Mumtaz Hussain.
In the third and fourth years where the emphasis is more on the clinical aspects of medicine, which involves interaction with patients, things get more difficult for NRI students.
"They are fluent neither in Urdu/Hindi nor Telugu and the college cannot provide them with translators when they have to talk to patients," Dr Hussain said.
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