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FOR his presidential address to the Section of Medical and Veterinary Sciences at the thirty-first Indian Science Congress held at Delhi in January, Dr. K. V. Krishnan chose "Medical Education" as his subject. Progressive medical educationists in India are not, he said, satisfied with the existing medical educational institutions, and wish to reorganize them in the light of recent trends of Western medical thought. It is now more than a hundred years since the first medical college was established in India and it is time for a stock-taking. India and the U.S.S.R. are the only two countries in the world which still have a dual standard of medical education. and both have decided to abolish it. The U.S.S.R. has already done much to abolish the lower standard. Madras and the United Provinces have already abolished it. Elsewhere in India there are still the medical schools which turn out licentiates with a lower standard of education and the colleges which produce, university graduates. In the very near future, Dr. Krishnan hopes, there will be only the medical colleges.
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LAPAGE, G. Medical Education in India. Nature 153, 658–659 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153658b0
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