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The scarcity of rural physicians in India has resulted in non-physician clinicians (NPC) serving at Primary Health Centers (PHC). This study examines the clinical competence of NPCs and physicians serving at PHCs to treat a range of medical…

In a landmark judgment, the authority of the states to reserve 50% of seats in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical postgraduate (PG) courses for in-service candidates has been upheld by the honourable Supreme Court of India on…

This article is a comment on Medical Education in the Draft New Education Policy. Briefly covers the main challenges in Medical education.

JUNE 29 2019 vol lIV nos 26 27 EPW This explains sympathetically the Tamil Nadu position on why they are critical of the imposition of NEET as the sole mode of entry into medical colleges

T. Sundararaman, Daksha Parmar, Seminar, Issue No. 714 , February 2019, 52 -- a discussion on public health cadre and such other things

Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in” : Schaaf et al. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:66 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0781-5.

Ganesan, Prathibha & Nambiar, Devaki & Sundararaman, Thiagarajan. (2017). In The Social Determinants of Health in India: Concepts, Processes, and Indicators. Eds Devaki Nambiar and Muralidharan Arundati 103-115. 10.1007/978-981-10-5999-5_7.

Thiagrajan Sundararaman*, Rajani Ved, Garima Gupta, M Samatha, BMC proceedings: Sundararaman et al. BMC Proceedings 2012, 6(Suppl 5):O30 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/6/S5/O30

Draft Policy Brief submitted to MOHFW, 2011. A relevant overview of the issues

India has a severe shortage of human resources for health. It has a shortage of qualified health workers and the workforce is concentrated in urban areas. Bringing qualified health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas is very challenging.…

719. Indian approaches to retaining skilled health workers in rural areas; Thiagarajan Sundararaman & Garima Gupta; Bulletin World Health Organization 2011;89:73–77…

Community health-workers: scaling up programmes; Sundararaman T.; Lancet. 2007 Jun 23;369(9579):2058-9.