Journey of a mbbs student from government college.

I have always wanted to be a doctor. Saving people and having that respect equal to a god means a lot. We have AETCOM classes, for developing communication skills with patients, knowing about the doctor patient relationship, going for clinical exposures in the hospitals, etc. Improvements can be the infrastructure of our college. Installation of air conditioning and more projectors would be better. We are in our first year and had appeared for PCTs and few tests. The course is definitely pretty difficult. Learning and understanding the topics are more important that having to by heart things.

We have internships as doctors after our 4th professional year. With a stipend of 15900 per month. Besides, those 4 years we're pennyless. All these four years before internship we perform clinical practices , perform seminars and visit families for family adoption programme in PSM.

Our college fee for every year is 50000 rupees. There ain't any hikes on fees right now . Besides this fee we also have hostel fee of 3500 per year and 2600 rupees per month as mess fees. Financial aid is available but only for students with reservation. Not for us middle class students from general category. This is what I find as wrong. Even I needed financial aid or scholarships but couldn't avail it due to my category. As I already mentioned I'm in first year of the course so there's not any employment. We'll enter internship once we clear our fourth professional year and receive a degree. The stipend then would be about 15900 rupees. As of now we just have clinical exposures once a week.

There is no college fests held in our college till now. The books availability in the Library is pretty decent. I do issue books now and then. There are approximately 21000 books available. This college lacks infrastructure as already told. Till now there is no sports activities held too. May be next year. No such clubs or students portals made right now.

Room is pretty spacious with 2 students in one room. But there is no availability of almirah in the room. There are racks on both sides. 3 time meals Available, average taste I must say. Registration process was filling forms and filling affidavits. Fees is 3500 per year. No it's not a pg.. college have own hostels.

For entering into any government medical College, we have to appear for NEET exam. Eligibility for this exam is being 12th pass plus age of 17 and above. Before appearing the exam we filled all the details in an application form that was given on the site of institute conducting the exam. The fees that was asked to submit was 1600 rupees and the security money of 5000. The application form filling starts about 3 months prior to the exam. I didn't avail any reservation benefits because I belonged to general category. NEET exam had 180 questions with 4 marks each and -1 on the wrong answers... giving a total marks of 720. The time for appearing the was 3 hours and 20 mins. The difficulty level of my exam was moderate. Coming onto the admission process, it went on for approx 2 days. The most important improvement should be the time management for admission process.