If Parliament passes the bill in the monsoon session, IITwill be the first among the six IITs to set up a medical school. The draft proposal submitted to MHRD speaks about introducing postgraduate courses in technology oriented medical education.
The detailed project report seeks to set up a seven-storied building for a medical hospital. "Initially, we had plans to open a 700-bed hospital. Now, the plan has been modified into 450 beds to start with. The new hospital will have major departments like oncology, cardiology, radiology and neurology," added Mazumdar.
To set up a medical school, however, the MHRD and the Medical Council of India need to give a go-ahead.
"Our strength is technology-driven research. We have thus emphasized on introducing technology-oriented medical education. We had initially planned to start postgraduate courses like MS and MD. However, due to guidelines and restrictions of the Medical Council of India ( MCI), we will also introduce MBBS courses. Under the guidelines, we can only start a postgraduate programme in medicine if we have an undergraduate programme as well," added another senior professor of the institute. Students will be admitted to the MBBS course in three phases over the next five years.
"In each phase, we will take 50 students for the undergraduate medical course. There are a few options for admitting students. One is to introduce a biology paper in the existing IIT-JEE examination. Another is to admit students through the All India Pre-medical Test. The mode of admission has not yet been decided and a final call will be taken soon. Once the approval comes, other modalities will be chalked out," said Mazumdar.
The detailed project report seeks to set up a seven-storied building for a medical hospital. "Initially, we had plans to open a 700-bed hospital. Now, the plan has been modified into 450 beds to start with. The new hospital will have major departments like oncology, cardiology, radiology and neurology," added Mazumdar.
To set up a medical school, however, the MHRD and the Medical Council of India need to give a go-ahead.
"Our strength is technology-driven research. We have thus emphasized on introducing technology-oriented medical education. We had initially planned to start postgraduate courses like MS and MD. However, due to guidelines and restrictions of the Medical Council of India ( MCI), we will also introduce MBBS courses. Under the guidelines, we can only start a postgraduate programme in medicine if we have an undergraduate programme as well," added another senior professor of the institute. Students will be admitted to the MBBS course in three phases over the next five years.
"In each phase, we will take 50 students for the undergraduate medical course. There are a few options for admitting students. One is to introduce a biology paper in the existing IIT-JEE examination. Another is to admit students through the All India Pre-medical Test. The mode of admission has not yet been decided and a final call will be taken soon. Once the approval comes, other modalities will be chalked out," said Mazumdar.
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