Recently NBE or the National board of examination started a new post graduate diploma course , the Post MBBS diploma in eight subjects, namely Radio-diagnosis, Obstetrics and gynecology, Pediatrics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Respiratory Medicine, Family medicine and Anesthesia. NBE is also credited to run post graduate degree courses named DNB aka Diplomat of National Board in few private and government hospitals. These DNB hospitals are accredited by NBE itself and are our of the purview of MCI or recently known as NMC (National Medical Commission). Why start a diploma course? In the last few years , we saw that MCI started converting all diploma courses run at various medical colleges to degree. The rationale being add one more year of training and you get a specialist doctor who can treat as well as teach. As per the norms , a diploma holder is not eligible for faculty position in medical educational institutes. But again NBE thought that start diploma again because we n...