Rural service for medical students to be made compulsory from this year
One year of rural service for medical students will be made compulsory from this year, Medical Education Minister SA Ramdas announced this at the graduation day of the first batch of the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute here on Saturday.
The compulsory government service for doctors has now been reduced to two years from the minimum of three years required previously, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said on Thursday.