**4.2 Village adoption scheme (social service camp)**

## *4.2.1 The context*

The medical graduates in India are trained mainly in tertiary care hospitals where they become completely dependent on technology. The villages of India need doctors who have to rely on their own knowledge, skill with sound community orientation, clinical competence, and good communication skills. The social service camp is an attempt to achieve the objective of the institute and to expose the students how to provide value-based and cost-effective medical education, especially in rural and resource-constrained settings.
