Doctor Beti

One million meritorious high school girls aspire to become doctors every year in India. 99% do not make it.

Enabling up to 100,000 aspiring girls every year to become champions of healthcare in India.

Ensuring a steady growth of the healthcare professionals in the system for a more inclusive and gender-balanced workforce.

1 million

Girls appear for NEET

15,000

Girls secure seats

40-80 lakh

Fees for 5yr MBBS programme at private college

Overview of the problem today

Why DoctorBeti?

One million high school girls in India today appear for the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) to join MBBS or BDS courses and aspire to become doctors. However, only 15 thousand of them secure seats in the coveted MBBS/BDS programmes, the first degree in general medicine and dentistry respectively.

This is a loss of skilled human talent who can go on to create significant impact as caregivers or play a key role in the transformation of healthcare in the country. The DoctorBeti programme is for these girls who aspire to build a career in healthcare. Most of the students who qualify for government colleges, prepare for NEET using expensive private coaching which is not accessible for poor students and neither well established in small towns and villages.

Even after qualifying NEET exams, due to the lack of enough seats Government medical colleges, the option remains to take admission in private medical colleges, which charge prohibitively high fees between Rs. 40 lakhs to Rs. 80 lakhs or more for a five year MBBS program, making it difficult for a middle or low income student to sponsor their education. The access and availability is worse for girls due to various social constraints.

Simultaneously there is a need to grow the healthcare workforce in India and especially push for inclusion of women as qualified healthcare professionals. Presently India has only 20.9 healthcare workers for every 10,000 people. The scenario is further skewed when we consider qualified allopathic doctors and nurses which stand at 3.3 and 3.1 per 10,000 people. On the geographical dimension, there is a heavy skew against rural locations with over 75% of healthcare workers being located in urban areas.

The primary objective of DoctorBeti Programme

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop this aspiration pool of young and ambitious girls emerging year-on year to succeed in the field of healthcare. DoctorBeti will enable access to better coaching and counselling for meritorious girls who are willing to appear for NEET through a video coaching programme. Moving forward, the programme will work with State governments and a network of institutions and not-for-profit organizations to provide every NEET qualified girl with a platform and opportunity to become champions in healthcare in India through online & offline education. Additionally, we will provide career counselling to connect with the diverse avenues in healthcare, even if they do secure a seat for a MBBS/BDS programme. This is to ensure that the talent is channelized.

Better coaching and preparatory resources

Providing access to better coaching and preparatory resources for meritorious girls who have proven the capability to qualify NEET exam with good grades.

Robust platform for aspirant girls

Creating a robust platform for the aspirant girls to explore other avenues in healthcare through online and offline counselling, connecting them to organizations in healthcare who are champions in the field, leadership insights from experts in the field of healthcare.

Ensuring support and knowledge

Ensuring the aspirant girls to continue their education in healthcare, and not drop out due to lack of support or knowledge on the same.

The programme will work with a strong and credible set of not-for-profit partners who have a track record of working on programs related to adolescent girls and young women, education, and healthcare.

The programme welcomes not-for-profit organizations to join hands in raising resources for more NEET scholarships. Not for profit organizations working in healthcare can also join hands to be a knowledge and content partner for training girls who qualify the NEET but are not able to join the MBBS program

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Mobile: +91-8826074485

Email: doctorbeti@gmail.com

Our Team

The DoctorBeti team is an exciting convergence of talent from across diverse backgrounds, qualifications, workstyles and age-groups who are committed to build dimensions in women leadership in India.

Manasi A. Tirodkar

PhD MS is an experienced anthropologist, health services researcher and healthcare consultant by profession. She is serving as a volunteer Advisor to DoctorBeti to guide the objectives of the organization and the projects described above. This involves joining Advisory Committee calls a couple of times a month and planning the implementation and scalability of the projects. Manasi will also contribute to and review content of the career counseling curriculum and be involved with the collection and selection of the #Womeninhealth videos.

Simran Soni

A management grad from IIM Kozhikode, Simran is soon to join PwC US Advisory as a consultant. When her summer internship at PwC US was deferred due to the pandemic, she initiated CovidFYI. It is a crowdsourced volunteer driven platform to fight misinformation, acting as a repository and search directory for critical help available for every district. Simran has primarily worked with startups to build, market and grow products, after 1.5 years of work as an analyst in the consulting field. Simran is a feminist, and through DoctorBeti she is helping thousands of young girls pursue their dreams for a brighter future.

Surabhi Shikha

is a development professional possessing 6 years of experience in building successful learning programmes within the academic, social and ed-tech sector. She is experienced in leading large-scale student initiatives on personal leadership, cultural intelligence and lateral thinking with universities across the south-east Asia, Australia and Europe. Surabhi is skilled in organizing and facilitating training aimed at the professional development of students across the globe. She is leading the DoctorBeti team, managing the end-to-end processes in the organization; and mostly trying to save lives, one girl at a time.

Dr Muskaan Khosla

A practising Surgeon and Public Health expert with a diverse experience of working with various national and international organisations across Asia, Africa and United States. She is also the author of The Healthcare Researcher-A simple guide to reading, writing and applying scientific research. Her vision aligns with the mission to create a conductive and supportive environment for girls in India so that they rise in various capacities within the healthcare domain.

Dakshesh Thacker

is an early career development sector professional. He spent two years at Sattva Consulting working closely with governments, philanthropic foundations and nonprofits to solve complex problems in the social sector across diverse thematic areas like Education, Cotton Farming, Skill Development and Healthcare. Prior to Sattva he was a Teach For India placed as high school Mathematics teacher in an affordable private school in Dharavi, Mumbai. In addition he took up special projects on gifted students learning and school to workforce transition. Dakshesh is drawn to DoctorBeti since he has closely seen the challenges that some of his students preparing for JEE and NEET face when taking on the challenges of nationwide competitive examinations.

Ghanshyam Tiwari

Building India in Education and Politics, Ghanshyam is the Founder and National Coordinator at Parliamentarians with Innovators for India - COVID-19 Action. He also serves as the National Spokesperson for Samajwadi Party, and has been a Loksabha Candidate. Ghanshyam pursued an executive management program at IIM Bangalore in 2005. He completed an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in 2011; and also earned a master's degree at Harvard Kennedy School in public administration and public policy. Ghanshyam has been instrumental at kickstarting multiple projects that aims to redefine the education sector in the country. A founding member of DoctorBeti, he aspires to empower girls in healthcare that in turn would strengthen and support the healthcare infrastructure in the country.