Reforming the Culture of Medical Faculty Promotion and Appointment

Abstract

A fairly recent paper published in the Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences attempted to provide improved and re fi ned suggestions, based on a survey with a limited number of respondents ( n ¼ 182), on how to improve the faculty promotion criteria as suggested by the Medical Council of India (MCI). 1 The objectives of that paper were noble, providing a fi ner-scale “ reward ” scale for different manuscript types