By Killugudi Jayaraman

In an effort to get medicines and health care to remote regions, India plans to create an army of rural doctors to serve exclusively in villages. Some 300 medical schools to be specially set up for this purpose will provide high school graduates a three-and-a-half year crash course in medicine (against the usual five-and-a-half years), awarding them Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) degrees. (Click here to continue reading)

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