Prayagraj: After issuing an advertisement pertaining to direct recruitment of 102 doctors to serve in government medical colleges, the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has now set the process rolling for direct recruitment of 128 more specialist doctors as assistant professors.
The advertisement comes against existing vacancies in government medical colleges across the state on behalf of the Medical Education department, UP (Allopathy).
The process of recruitment of doctors, in different specialised fields, are also being seen as part of the efforts by UP government efforts to gear up for the predicted third wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
In the advertisement for the posts of assistant professor of different specialities includes Orthopaedics (7), Anaesthesiology (18), Community Medicine (12), General Medicine (9), General Surgery (11), TB and Chest (3), Dentistry (3), Neurosurgery (4), Pathology (8), Skin and VD (4), Paediatrics (3), Urology (1), Radiodiagnosis (3), Psychiatry (1), Obstetrics and Gynaecology (5), ENT (2), Forensic Medicine (2), Medical Gastroenterology (2), Ophthalmology (2), Cardiology (4), Plastic Surgery (1), Neurology (1), Cardiac Anaesthesia (1), Physicist (1), Statistics and demography in Obstetrics Gynaecology department (3), Chemist in Pharmacology department (1), Anatomy (5), Microbiology (3), Pharmacology (3), Physiology (2), Biochemistry (2) and Orthodontics in Plastic surgery department (1).
“After the issuance of the advertisement, the process of submitting applications has started.
July 23 has been fixed as the last date for the deposition of application fee in the bank and July 26 is the last date for submission of online applications for the direct recruitment,” said UPPSC secretary Jagdish.
In direct recruitment, applicants do not appear in any written exam.
Instead, they are shortlisted on the basis of their qualifications and eligibility followed by an interview by a specially appointed panel of the commission.
UPPSC secretary said the detailed advertisement spelling out the qualifications and age limit, etc., had been made available on the official website of the commission — http://uppsc.up.nic.in/ These medical officers will be recruited on an initial pay of Rs 68,900/Academic Level-11.
Though no private practice is permissible, an allowance will be given in lieu thereof as per government orders.
The age limit fixed for applicants is between 26 and 40 years, the notification says.