Critical seats vacant as State government concludes hiring of 433 Assistant Professor posts

A severe shortage of specialist doctors has left many Assistant Professor posts vacant in Telangana government medical colleges. Several super-specialty departments failed to attract a single qualifying applicant, while dozens of vacancies across basic medical disciplines remained unfilled after recruitment

Hyderabad: A severe shortage of specialist doctors has left a large number of positions vacant in several critical medical specialties in government medical colleges following the recently concluded recruitment drive for 433 Assistant Professor posts across 30 specialties.

According to data from the Medical and Health Services Recruitment Board (MHSRB), released on Wednesday, four critical super-specialty departments, including Transfusion Medicine, Neurology, Pediatric Surgery and Nephrology, failed to secure a single qualifying applicant, leaving every advertised post vacant.

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The faculty crunch is equally severe across basic medical departments. In five general specialties alone, 67 out of 106 available vacancies remained unfilled. These vacant positions will be carried forward to the next state hiring cycle as no eligible candidates matched the designated social reservation roster points, including Scheduled Tribes (ST), Backward Classes (BC-A, BC-C) and Orthopedically Handicapped (OH) categories.

In Physiology, out of 29 total vacancies, seven candidates were selected, leaving 22 positions vacant, while in Anatomy, only four candidates were selected out of 22 vacancies, leaving 18 positions vacant.

A similar trend was observed in Community Medicine, where only nine candidates were assigned posts against 25 vacancies, leaving 16 positions vacant. In Microbiology, seven candidates were selected for 15 vacancies, leaving eight positions vacant, while in Pathology, 12 candidates were selected out of 15 available vacancies, leaving three positions unfilled.