India, Oct. 16 -- Ankit Pandey, a final-year student at Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College (GMC), was among the 22 students who enrolled in the inaugural Hindi MBBS programme launched as part of the Madhya Pradesh government's "ease of education" initiative.

He said they thought Hindi-medium school students like him had an easier path to becoming doctors. But the hybrid language use prompted them to switch to the English medium from the second year for better long-term prospects.

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate), NEET (PG), for admission to postgraduate medical programmes is held in English.

Pandey said anatomy books were translated into Hindi, but all the medical terms remained in English. "So, we decided to opt ...