AIIMS

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)  is a medical college and hospital in India, and is an autonomous institution funded by India’s Union Government. It is located in Delhi.

Like IIT’s and IIM’s ,which are group of institutes ,another AIIMS will be opened in 2011 in Bhopal ,Madhya Pradesh

It is considered as the best medical college and public hospital in the country and is globally recognised for providing low-cost medical care to a large number of patients. Most of India’s VIPs (Legislators, Ministers, Judges in particular) utilize AIIMS as their primary hospital, which contributes to ensuring the maintenance of high standards. Recently, medical professionals from various Asian, European and American countries have begun coming to AIIMS to train, as the exposure to various diseases attained there is rare in most other institutions.

It is one of India’s Institutes of National Importance, a distinguished category of premier institutions like the IITs, IIMs, Indian Statistical Institute, ICAR etc.

Location of the instution

AIIMS is located in Ansari Nagar, an upscale locality of South Delhi. It is adjacent to the South Extension market, and lies on the Inner Ring Road. The region is referred to commonly as “medical”, as a number of healthcare-related organizations are headquartered there. The AIIMS Flyover is a large complex of flyovers and overpasses that lies on the Ring Road in front of AIIMS. The AIIMS Metro Station, which is presently under construction, will be part of the New Delhi Metro Rail System.

Across the road from AIIMS is Safdarjung hospital, a large facility which caters to Delhi’s population (as opposed to AIIMS which is a referral centre).

Adjacent to AIIMS lies the headquarters of ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), the body that coordinates and funds medical research in India. Beyond that is the National Medical Library, run by the DGHS (Directorate-General of Health Services) of the Government of India. It has a vast collection of scientific and medical journals that can be accessed by researchers.

Farthest along the stretch is the NAMS house, the official building of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, which is a prestigious body of eminent doctors from across India.

Past of the AIIMS

AIIMS was inaugurated in 1956, and was built with a grant from the New Zealand Government. AIIMS was established in New Delhi after former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s intitial proposal to set up the institute in Calcutta was turned down by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.It was the vision of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first Health Minister of India, to establish an institute of such nature in India. She envisioned an autonomous medical institute where students, doctors and teachers would live and learn side by side, with freedom to experiment with teching and curriculum.

Ranking of instution

AIIMS has been consistently ranked the top medical college in India to pursue an MBBS degree by India Today in annual surveys starting in 1997.AIIMS has held the top slot for the last six years in a row, and has been ranked first for 11 out of the 12 years that India Today has conducted the survey.

AIIMS’ excellence has to do with several factors – small class size (50 per year), excellent library facilities, liberal clinically oriented teaching, research exposure and the ability to set its own curriculum.

Several surveys by The Week and Outlook magazines have named AIIMS the best hospital in India overall, as well as the best in several individual fields such as Cardiology, Neurology, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology and Ophthalmology, ahead of several specialised institutions.

The hospital has been able to maintain high standards of quality while seeing large numbers of patients (3.5 million in 2006) at very low cost to patients (10 Indian Rupees for outpatient doctor consultation equivalent to approx US $0.25), many of whom live in extreme poverty.

How to take addmission

MBBS course

Every year AIIMS accepts 45 Indian students, of which 33 belong to General Category and 11 belong to the reserved category (SC/ST) and 1 orthopedic physically handicapped, based on the results of an all-India entrance examination for its MBBS program. The number of students who take the entrance exam every year varies from 70,000 to 80,000. The acceptance rate for admission to the undergrad course (medical school) is thus 45/75000 i.e 0.06%. This makes the AIIMS entrance exam, conducted on 1st of June every year, one of India’s most difficult.

Five international students (nominated by Government of India from SAARC nations) complete the class size of 50. AIIMS also specializes in paramedical and basic science training for its undergrads. AIIMS is one of the few institutions where the faculty-student ratio is actually the reverse of the norm, i.e there are more faculty members than students. PG Cert. in Sociology

Course offered

The courses offered by the institute are:

• MBBS ( Annual intake of 77 students)
• MD/MS (Annual intake of around 217-220 students in 24 disciplines)
• DM/MCh (in 12 and 5 disciplines respectively)
• BSc courses in Nursing, Paramedical and medical specialities (Annual intake of 70 students in BSc hons and 51 in paramedical courses)
• BSc (Honours) Human Biology (Till 2002)
• MSc many specialities
• MBiotech
• All the PG courses
• Etc and everything
• PhD in 47 disciplines.

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