GMOA to take up enrolment of  ‘students without qualifications’

Malabe PMC:

October 20, 2011, 9:50 pm

By Dilanthi Jayamanne

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) says it will complain to the Ministry of Higher Education about the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SITM) better known as the Malabe Private Medical College (MPMC) enrolling students without required qualifications to follow medicine.

GMOA Assistant Secretary, Dr. Upul Gunasekara said yesterday that students were being enrolled for medical degree programme with only three simple passes at their GCE (Advanced Level) examination.

He said that according to the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) guidelines, students enrolled for medical education should have a minimum of two credits and one Simple pass. The enrolment of students without the stipulated qualifications would only serve to ruin the reputation of Sri Lankan medical colleges. That would be a blow to government efforts to make Sri Lanka the Knowledge Hub of Asia. Foreign students would have a poor opinion of local medical faculties.