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The statement from the physiotherapists’ body comes after a large number of physiotherapy students across the country wrote to the IAP, seeking its intervention on the internship fees being charged from the students.
Indian Association of Physiotherapists advises Management, Principals of Member/Non-member Physiotherapy Colleges to arrange clinical internship of their students in hospitals
The Indian Association of Physiotherapists (IAP) has urged colleges to bear the cost of internship of students and said that it is the responsibility of the colleges to provide adequate exposure to the students who have already paid the tuition fees for four years. Have passed
The statement from the physiotherapists’ body comes after a large number of physiotherapy students across the country wrote to the IAP, seeking its intervention on the internship fees being charged from the students. The students urged the IAP to issue an advisory to hospitals not to charge internship fees from students, and that the colleges should bear this fee on behalf of the students.
“Indian Association of Physiotherapists hereby advises all Managements and Principals of Member/Non-member Physiotherapy Colleges to arrange clinical internship of their students in hospitals as per statutory guidelines along with stipend and facilities equivalent to Physiotherapy Find an opportunity to provide.” IAP said in its statement, graduates in all states and union territories.
Jamia Millia Islamia alumnus Nihal Ashraf, who spearheaded the no-internship fee campaign, said, “Students of other medical branches like MBBS get paid during their internship, while physiotherapy students, on the other hand, have to pay for their internship.” falls. It needs to be fixed.”
In a letter to the IAP, the students and physiotherapists said that a compulsory rotatory internship of 6 months marks the completion of a physiotherapy student’s degree, but in many hospitals, the management is demanding internship fees from the students themselves.
“This fee is not part of the course requirements, and when inquired about it, it is learned that there is no official directory for the same. This unethical practice was going on for quite some time, and the students were eventually Had to set out to find a solution to end it,” according to the letter to the IAP.
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