GIMS Noida likely to offer 14 New PG Medical Courses from next year

Noida: A total number of 14 new postgraduate medical courses are likely going to be added to the Noida-based Government Institution of Medical Science (GIMS).

These new PG medical courses will be offered in various specialities including- medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, community medicine, anesthesia, ENT, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, anatomy, microbiology, and orthopedics, adds TOI.

GIMS will start offering these Doctors of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MS) courses from the next academic year. The intake capacity for these PG medical courses will be a total number of 70 seats.

These seats will be added to the seat matrix of the medical college after the teams from the National Medical Commission (NMC) will conduct the inspection by the end of this year. The NMC teams will inspect the institute to check "the faculty and infrastructural condition" for setting up the courses.

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Commenting on the matter, the Director of GIMS, Rakesh Gupta told The Times of India, "In the last three years, the number of patients has increased four times. We need to focus on speciality areas in GIMS now, hence we are starting the PG courses. Through the NEET exam next year, we expect to take admission in the PG courses."

He further mentioned that the Diplomate of National Board (DNB) Programme, which is equivalent to the postgraduate or post-doctoral programme, will be stopped at the institute from the next academic year.

"Except for radiology, all other four courses of DNB will be stopped from next year, instead, the MD/MS courses will be started," he added.

Medical dialogues had earlier reported that the Uttar Pradesh Government was planning to add more than 800 postgraduate medical seats across the government medical institutes in the State from the 2024 session onwards.

This plan to increase PG medical seats was set to primarily concentrate on King George's Medical University (KGMU) and Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow, Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College in Kanpur and medical colleges in peripheral districts.

Meanwhile, TOI adds that the construction work of the new nursing college of GIMS is expected to begin by December. Officials informed the Daily that the lectures will be conducted at the basement classes, till the new building near the GBU campus becomes operative. Classes will gradually be shifted there once the new building comes up.

Commenting on the matter, the GIMS Director added, "A fund of Rs 21 crore has been sanctioned for the same. Initially, there will be four classrooms, six laboratories, and other facilities at the nursing college."

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