Medical PG Seats after PG Diploma Conversion: MCI BoG issues corrigendum
New Delhi: The Board of Governors at Medical Council of India (MCI BoG) has recently issued a corrigendum on the earlier notification regarding the conversion of Post-Graduate (PG) Diploma to PG Degree seats.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that as a policy move abolishing the PG diploma courses , MCI had converted over 2120 PG diploma seats to MD/MS degree at various medical colleges. With the change, MCI also announced the total number of degree courses finally at the medical colleges After this notification was issued on February 28, the colleges noted that there was a difference in the number of seats actually in certain course and what the MCI had noted in its public notice . Following this, they submitted their representations to the apex medical body pointing out to the mistake.
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Consequently, the members Board of Governors, who are Incharge for Postgraduate matters, considered the representations received from various institutes for correction in Conversion of postgraduate Diploma to Degree seats together with the recommendations of the PG Expert Group and decided to issue a corrigendum as under:
| Insti _Sno | Coll_ Sno | Institute Name | State | Course Applied | Diploma Denotified | Seats Converted | Seats granted earlier on 28.02.2019 | PG Degree_ Seat Incr. (Corrigendum) |
| 11 | 54 | Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh | Andhra Pradesh | Dip. in Ophthalmology (DO) | 1 | 1 | 1 to 2 | 8 to 9 |
| 11 | 56 | Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh | Andhra Pradesh | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 3 | 3 | 3 to 6 | 6 to 9 |
| 31 | 133 | Smt. B.K. Shah Medical Institute & Research Centre | Gujrat | Dip. in Child Health (DCH) | 2 | 2 | 10 to 2 | 10 to 12 |
| 32 | 139 | Smt. Nathiba Hargovandas Lakhmichand Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad, | Gujrat | Dip. in Radio-Diagnosis (DMRD) | 6 | 6 | 6 to 12 | 9 to 15 |
| 32 | 140 | Smt. Nathiba Hargovandas Lakhmichand Municipal Medical College, Ahmedad, | Gujrat | Dip. in Ophthalmology (DO) | 6 | 5 | 5 to 10 | 9 to 14 |
| 36 | 146 | Government Medical college Jammu | Jammu Kashmir | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 3 | 3 | 6 to 9 | 12 to 15 |
| 36 | 147 | Government Medical college Jammu | Jammu Kashmir | Dip. in Child Health (DCH) | 6 | 6 | 3 to 9 | 5 to 11 |
| 36 | 148 | Government Medical college Jammu | Jammu Kashmir | Dip. in Orthopaedics (D.ORTHO) | 6 | 6 | 8 to 14 | 10 to 16 |
| 36 | 151 | Government Medical college Jammu | Jammu Kashmir | Dip. in Clinical Pathology (DCP) | 6 | 6 | 5 to 11 | 7 to 13 |
| 37 | 152 | Government Medical College, Srinagar | Jammu Kashmir | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 12 | 12 | 10 to 12 | 10 to 22 |
| 45 | 177 | Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka | Karnataka | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 2 | 2 | 1 to 3 | 4 to 6 |
| 47 | 185 | Government Medical College, Mysore | Karnataka | Dip. in Oto-RhinoLaryngology (DLO) | 2 | 2 | 5 to 7 | 6 to 8 |
| 50 | 201 | J.J.M. Medical college Karnataka | Karnataka | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 9 | 9 | 9 to 21 | 12 to 21 |
| 52 | 214 | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Karnataka | Karnataka | Dip. in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (DGO) | 12 | 12 | 7 to 9 | 7 to 19 |
| 54 | 220 | JSS Medical College, Mysore | Karnataka | Dip. in Orthopaedics (D.ORTHO) | 6 | 6 | 6 to 12 | 11 to 17 |
| 69 | 289 | St. John's Medical College, Bangalore | Karnataka | Dip. in Oto RhinoLaryngology (DLO) | 2 | 2 | 3 to 7 | 1 to 3 |
| 69 | 290 | St. John's Medical College, Bangalore | Karnataka | Dip. in Child Health (DCH) | 4 | 4 | 3 to 5 | 3 to 7 |
| 78 | 338 | M.E.S. Medical College Perinthalmanna | Kerala | Dip. in Anaesthesiology (DA) | 3 | 3 | 2 to 4 | 2 to 5 |
| 88 | 385 | B.J. Government Medical College & Sassoon General Hospital, Pune | Maharashtra | Dip. in Ophthalmology (DO) | 2 | 2 | 6 to 6 | 6 to 8 |
| 126 | 540 | Madras Medical College, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Dip. in Anaesthesiology (DA) | 15 | 15 | 18 to 33 | 22 to 37 |
| 141 | 644 | Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad | Telangana | Dip. in Radio-Diagnosis (DMRD) | 2 | 2 | 10 to 12 | 12 to 14 |
| 147 | 678 | King George's Medical University, Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | Dip. in Radio-Diagnosis (DMRD) | 2 | 2 | 3 to 5 | 2 to 4 |
All the above decisions of the Incharge for Postgraduate matters members Board of Governors were approved by the Chairman, Board of Governors. The decision so made shall be placed before the full Board of Governors for the purpose of ratification, the corrigendum stated
https://old.mciindia.org/circulars/Circular-Surrender of Diploma.pdf
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