Now MBBS at IIT: IIT Kharagpur Introduces MBBS Course at BC Roy Institute of Medical Science and Technology

The UG programmes at IIT Kharagpur had eight weeks of summer internship and this can now be extended to eight months of research or industry internship, Tewari said. Internships have also been proposed for PG programmes, he said.

IIT-Kharagpur has set up an international student office, and is making efforts to increase the admission of international students, Tewari said.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that last year the B.C.Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre of IIT-KGP and All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIHPH) had joined hands to start an online certificate course on "Health Promotion and Medical Intervention" under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

This course was designed to provide the learners with a comprehensive understanding of Health Promotion and Education Interventions. Health Promotion and Education Interventions are critical competencies for public health professionals.

The aim of this course was to make the participants able to define and understand the need for health promotion and education interventions and to enable them to plan, implement, and evaluate Health Promotion and Education Interventions.

Candidates who completed their post-graduate (medical) in Community Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Promotion or pursued post-graduation in nursing or allied disciplines were declared to be eligible to undergo the course.

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