{"id":3055,"date":"2009-01-09T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:52:24","slug":"medical-seats-in-aimst-for-students-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/01\/09\/medical-seats-in-aimst-for-students-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical seats in AIMST for students from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m all for international and bilateral cooperations.  But aren&#8217;t we having shortage of doctors locally? How nice if those <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/8\/nation\/2965410&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">extra places<\/a> are given to local Indians (provided they are qualified, of course) before being opened to those from India (or any other country for the matter). Perhaps its part of the strategy to increase the standing of AIMST by having international students.  Or its just plain profit seeking plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHENNAI (India): The MIC-owned Aimst University has been given the approval to recruit 100 students from India to study medicine.<\/p>\n<p>MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the Ministry of Higher Education gave the approval to recruit foreign students for the medical degree recently.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to the existing 200 seats for Malaysians studying at the university, he told reporters here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu, who is the founder of the university, is leading a 150-member delegation to the inaugural World Tamils Economic conference and the annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have decided to provide the opportunity for South Indian students to pursue the medical course at the university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu said the South Indian students would study in Malaysia and undergo clinical training at a reputable private hospital in Coimbatore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in talks with the hospital to make the arrangement,\u201d he said, adding that the students would return to Malaysia for their final year and would receive their degree after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu said he would be going to Coimbatore to have a final discussion with the private hospital, as well as to discuss about the recognition of the medical degree with the Indian Medical Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m all for international and bilateral cooperations. But aren&#8217;t we having shortage of doctors locally? How nice if those extra places are given to local Indians (provided they are qualified, of course) before being opened to those from India (or any other country for the matter). Perhaps its part of the strategy to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,24,225],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}