The recent move by the Maharashtra Government to increase the age of retirement for Medical Professors or Medical College Teachers from 58 years to 62 years is surely a welcome move. Even otherwise, most Doctors work at least till the age of 65 years. This will definitely help us to tackle the growing problem of lack of qualified and experienced teachers to teach the students in the rapidly growing number of Medical Colleges. In fact, it would be good if, the age limit is further increased to 65 years. Most hospitals with Medical Colleges anyways hire contractual staff up to that age or even beyond. One could also evaluate opening up of the norms to allow honorary private doctors to teach in medical colleges, this too will help us in getting more teaching staff which is a dire need. This concept is prevalent in other professional colleges like engineering, architecture, MBA etc…we have a difficult situation staring at us and it surely calls for a radical change in the thinking process when we start looking for answers….
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Your page looks great—but silver against blackground is a lettle difficult to read–
Your suggestion has a great value and why 65 years?–Let them work like Mr Sreedharan of Delhi Metro who at the age of 75 years has been executing massive projects—
In USA,there are a lot of organizations with no retirement age–
In fact we should utilize our older folks as Advisors/Teachers/Trainers and at almost half or 1/3rd of the Salaries!!!!!
Medical sciences is an applied science and needs too much effort. A person devotes at least 9 years in studies to be a specialist. So would not it be good option for them to practice for a standard period of 35 years ? so if a specialist starts serving at age of 25 to 30, 65 is a good age, and beyond that ..