pune dg dongaonkar vicechancellor maharashtra university of health sciences on saturday called for a revamp of medical educationdeclaring open a twoday surgery anaesthesiology and critical care update at the armed forces medical college afmc here he said super specialisation in the field of health care was resulting in the basic health care being neglected as a result general patient is not getting proper care dongaonkar who is also an orthopaedic surgeon said adding for instance in orthopaedics alone there are nine subspecialitiesexpressing concern at the erosion in the quality of medical education he said the concept of a family doctor had become almost extinct and this is doing more harm than good particularly to poor and needy patients he saidpointing to the mushrooming of private medical institutions offering postgraduate courses without infrastructure and expertise dongaonkar suggested that the medical council of india mci initiate concrete measures to prevent further commercialisation of medical educationdongaonkar said he could not help the three students who consumed poison on the universitys campus last week after they were prevented from appearing for first year mbbs examination for the sixth time as the mci had laid down strict guidelines