Sir, the Dental Council of India (DCI) has offered a solution to the acute shortage of medical doctors and specialists in India. It has proposed to start a bridge course for dental graduates so that they can become an MBBS doctor. There is already a bridge course for MBBS doctors who would like to become a dentist. The DCI president Dr D. Majumder has suggested a bridge course to help dental graduates to become MBBS doctors.
In India over 85% of positions for physicians are vacant at community health centres, yet more than 15,000 dental graduates are jobless. The bridge course would be a good solution to both problems.1
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Sharda S . DCI bridge course to battle India's shortage of doctors. The Times of India, 9 April 2016. Available at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/DCI-bridge-course-to-battle-Indias-shortage-of-doctors/articleshow/51758366.cms.
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Math, M., Kattimani, Y. & Khadkikar, R. Bridging to medicine. Br Dent J 220, 500 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.360
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