Telegraph reports: "Prescription ready for rural medics" New Delhi, Oct. 2: The Medical Council of India is ready with an alternative undergraduate medical education programme which, if implemented, will radically change the face of the rural health system. "The MCI sub-committee set up for putting together an alternative framework is finally ready with the draft. It will now be put up before the Union health ministry," K.M. Shyamprasad, member of the rural task force set up by health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, said. The alternative curriculum will not come in place of the present MBBS course but will co-exist with it. Its objective is to impart integrated medical training to students willing to work in badly-equipped primary rural health centres.

This is a welcome move. So lets see, we now have MBBS for Allopathy, BAMS for Ayurveda, BSMS for Siddha, BHMS for Homeopathy, BUMS for Unani and the upcoming Rural Medical course (I wonder what they will name it). Ahh.. not to forget the Bachelor of Electropathy Medicine and Surgery! - don't even dare to ask me what the heck it is!