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The Association of Medical Biochemists Kerala section and Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) person protested against the “arbitrary” determination of the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) to see non-medical Biochemistry postgraduates successful the written introspection and enactment process for assignment towards the posts of Assistant Professor successful Biochemistry successful authorities aesculapian colleges successful the State.
The PSC, aft issuing hallway tickets for the written introspection connected October 14, 2025, for nonstop recruitment of Assistant Professor successful Biochemistry, had connected the eve of the exam announced the abrupt cancellation of the exam. It stated that non-medical Biochemistry candidates excessively had to beryllium fixed a accidental for participating successful the enactment process, going by the latest National Medical Commission (NMC) qualification fixed for the aforesaid post.
The qualification and method of assignment of module nether the aesculapian acquisition services are fixed arsenic per a authorities bid (GO(MS) No.14/2013/H & FWD Dt. 22.01.2013), which states that the assignment of adjunct professors volition beryllium by nonstop recruitment done the PSC and that the qualifications for the station volition beryllium a aesculapian postgraduate grade specified arsenic MD/MS from a recognised assemblage successful the subject concerned.
PSC’s notification for the wide nonstop recruitment of Assistant Professor successful Biochemistry connected June 17, 2025 had besides stated the qualifications arsenic MD/DNB successful Biochemistry, one-year acquisition arsenic Senior Resident successful Biochemistry, and imperishable registration nether the Kerala State Medical Council (KSMC).
The Association of Medical Biochemists Kerala section and KGMCTA maintained that Kerala has ne'er been babelike connected the “vacillating advisories of NMC” for the recruitment and enactment of module successful authorities aesculapian colleges.
‘Early objective vulnerability essential’
They pointed retired that aboriginal objective vulnerability is an indispensable facet of competency-based aesculapian education, and that non-medical MSc PhD qualification tin successful nary mode beryllium a substitute for the objective vulnerability that a module successful a aesculapian assemblage should person and impart to aesculapian students.
PSC’s determination to let non-medical candidates’ introduction into the aesculapian acquisition service, altering the qualification for candidates aft the initiation of the enactment process, is simply a usurpation of the law. It volition besides pb to the dilution of the prime of aesculapian acquisition successful the State, they said.
The associations person raised the contented with the PSC and the government. Applicants with MBBS and MD person already approached the Kerala Administrative Tribunal implicit the matter.
They demanded that the PSC indispensable retreat its determination to let non-medical persons into the aesculapian acquisition work and instantly implicit the enactment process of aesculapian candidates.
