CHENNAI: More than 500 medical students from different medical colleges on Monday staged a protest seeking Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s intervention in removing the medical evaluation guidelines that was recently adopted by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR University. The revised guidelines, more stringent than the existing rules of the Medical Council of India, caused 1,300 students to fail in their first-year exams, they contended.Originally, students had to secure at least 50 percent marks in two of the five papers for three subjects that they are taught in their first year: anatomy, physiology and bio-chemistry. In the other three papers, they could score a combined percentage of 50. “According to the new guidelines brought into effect from this year, each medical student has to cross the 50 per cent mark in each of the five papers. This had caused more than 40 per cent of the 3,165 first-year students across the Tamil Nadu to fail in their examinations,” said Prashanth, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Medical Students Association, that had organised the protest.“Also, the required attendance percentage has been increased from 80 to 90 for a student to be eligible to write the examinations, as per the rules framed by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University,” Prashanth added.
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