Andhra Seeks NMC approval for PG Medical Courses at 5 New Medical Colleges

Vijayawada: The Government of Andhra Pradesh has approached the National Medical Commission (NMC) seeking permission to commence postgraduate medical courses at the newly established medical colleges in Vizianagaram, Rajamahendravaram, Eluru, Machilipatnam, and Nandyala.

Recently, these medical colleges started with an intake capacity of 150 MBBS seats each.

Confirming that the Government is seeking NMC nod for starting PG medical courses at these medical colleges, the director of medical education (DME) Dr DSVL Narasimham said, "We wrote to the NMC to admit two students per branch in broad specialty PG medical courses, including MD (Doctor of Medicine) and MS (Master of Surgery) programmes such as paediatrics, gynaecology, orthopaedics, anaesthesia, and others from the 2025–26 academic year."

The DME further informed that they write to the Apex Medical Commission in November 2024 seeking permission to start the PG medical courses and admit students from the coming academic years only after developing all necessary infrastructural amenities, including faculty and clinical materials, which are key parameters for NMC's assessment to grant LoP for admitting the new PG admissions.

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Elaborating on the reasons behind the DME writing to NMC to admit two students per branch, Dr Narasimham told the Times of India, "While a professor can guide a maximum of three students, two students by an associate professor and one student by an assistant professor in PG courses, and considering the availability of the faculty, we wanted to admit two PG students with one associate professor as a guide at the new medical colleges."

The DME further mentioned that while old medical colleges can admit around 20 students into the broad speciality PG courses, the new medical colleges will start with two or three seats, considering the faculty strength.

"The NMC, which is currently busy with the NEET PG entrance examination, will conduct a virtual inspection on the availability of key infrastructure amenities and other key parameters before issuing LoP to start the PG courses at the new medical colleges. It is expected that the NMC would complete its virtual inspection of the available amenities and sanction permission to admit students into PG courses by September at the new medical colleges before initiating the PG admission process," Narasimham said.

Highlighting that the five new medical colleges are successfully running the MBBS course with sanctioned 150 seats, the DME added, "The govt will write to NMC to increase the MBBS seats from 50 to 100 from the next 2026-27 UG academic year at Paderu govt medical college, wherein the NMC issued LoP for just 50 seats when 100 seats were sought, citing infrastructural deficiencies there."

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS. Jagan Mohan Reddy had inaugurated the medical colleges in Vizianagaram, Machilipatanam, Nandyala, Eluru, and Rajamundry back in 2023.

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