Medical Career Options Beyond MBBS

Several reported cases from West Bengal show how NEET aspirants and parents were allegedly cheated through fake promises of MBBS seats, donor quota, management quota, NRI quota, fake documents, and direct admission. Students must remember: MBBS admission in India should happen only through official NEET counselling routes, not through cash promises or private guarantees.

Explore the top medical colleges in the world for 2026, including leading universities in the USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. A student-friendly ILMALINK guide for Indian medical aspirants planning MBBS, MD, or medical education abroad.

A doctor for every crowd: the story begins Imagine standing in a long queue outside a clinic. Some people are there for a fever, some for diabetes, some for a child’s cough, and some simply because they waited too long. In that line, one doctor may have to serve hundreds of people, and that is exactly why the patient-to-doctor ratio matters so much. In India, the government estimates the doctor-population ratio at 1:811 as of 2025, based on registered allopathic doctors and AYUSH practitioners with an assumed 80% availability. Back in 2022, the figure was reported as 1:834. On paper, that places India better than the World Health Organization’s benchmark of 1 doctor per 1,000 people.