Undergraduate Courses

Post admission facilties for new students, training of students, curricula, teaching programmes and internal assessment of UG students are controlled by the UG cell. There are variousUG coursesbeing offered by AIIMS.

MBBS

The duration of MBBS course is 5-1/2 years, including one year compulsory internship training. The period of five and a half years is made use of for training as follows:

• One year pre-clinical training
• One and a half year para-clinical training
• Two years clinical training
• One year rotating internship

Admission to MBBS

Every year a batch of 50 students is admitted to MBBS. Five seats are reserved for foreign nationals; screening and admissions for these seats are carrie out by the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Out of the remaining 45 seats 11 seats are reserved for SC/ST categories, leaving 34 seats for merit selection. As the details in the next section highlight, 35,381 students applied for and 24,947 actually appeared in the entrance examination for these 45 seats. The total number of undergraduate students as onm 31.03.1996.

Financial Support to MBBS Students

Merit scholarships of Rs.200/- p.m. and Rs.150/-p.m. were awarded to students who secured first and second position in the 1st, 2nd and final MBBS examinations.

Summer fellowships of Rs. 150/-p.m. were awarded to 1 MBBS and 2 Human Biology students to work in selected areas of research and under the supervision of a memeber of the faculty.

All activities pertaining to the admission and training of paramedical and nursing students are handled by this cell.

B.Sc.(Hons.)Human Biology

This course is organised and taught in 3 phases, each phase is of one year duration.

First Phase is devoted to fundamentals of physics-chemical principles underlying structural and functional relationship in the human body.

Second Phase is for exposure to broad spectrum of interdisciplinary areas in human biology.

Third Phase is for in-depth training in one of the chosen specialities viz., Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Biophysics.

Admission to B.Sc.(Hons.) in Human Biology

A batch of 25 students is admitted for this course.

Postgraduate Courses

This section looks after all the activities pertaining to admission, selection and training of postgraduate students which include junior and senior residents and service matters relating to senior residents. PG cell is also responsible for admission and training in superspecialities i.e.D.M., M.Ch., M.Sc., and Ph.D. There are different sub-categories being offered in the superspecialities.

Admission to Postgraduate Courses

Admission to all postgraduate courses are made by an All India Entrance Examination held twice a year. In the past, admission of foreign nationals to various postgraduate courses was made on the basis of their marks obtained in the MBBS examination and other particulars available. However, from 1993 the admission is made on the basis of their performance at the entrance examination. the students from Nepal for postgraduate courses are admitted under the bilateral agreement between the Govt. of India and the Govt. of Nepal.

A total of 229 students (which included 22 State-sponsored and 7 foreign candidates) were admitted to various postgraduate courses of the Institute during the year under review, bringing the total number of postgraduate students rolls of the Institute to 585 as on 31st March, 1996.

The distribution of the postgraduate students, discipline wise is given below :