Total Count- 48031: Health Minister gives break up of PG Medical, SS seats to parliament
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New Delhi: There are total 48, 031 PG medical seats in the country in various broad specialities and super-speciality courses including MD, MS, DM, Mch, Diploma, as well as DNB and FNB courses.
Information to this effect was recently released by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Shri Ashwani Kumar Choubey to the Lok Sabha while responding to a question on shortage in numbers of Doctorate of Medicine (MD) degree holders in the country .
The Minister replied that no data with regard to shortage of doctors is maintained centrally. However, the details of State-wise postgraduate medical seats including Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM) was then given by the minister
Providing a complete breakup of the PG Broad Specialty as well as Super-specialty seats in the country, the Choubey informed that there are total 34060 PG Medical Seats (MD/MD/DM/Mch/Dip) in medical colleges across the country and another 13,971 PG Medical seats with autonomous bodies including AIIMS, JIPMER, CPS, DNB as well as FNB (Natboard)
Information to this effect was recently released by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Shri Ashwani Kumar Choubey to the Lok Sabha while responding to a question on shortage in numbers of Doctorate of Medicine (MD) degree holders in the country .
The Minister replied that no data with regard to shortage of doctors is maintained centrally. However, the details of State-wise postgraduate medical seats including Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM) was then given by the minister
Providing a complete breakup of the PG Broad Specialty as well as Super-specialty seats in the country, the Choubey informed that there are total 34060 PG Medical Seats (MD/MD/DM/Mch/Dip) in medical colleges across the country and another 13,971 PG Medical seats with autonomous bodies including AIIMS, JIPMER, CPS, DNB as well as FNB (Natboard)
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