AIIMS notifies open round schedule, vacant seat position for INI SS January 2026 admissions

According to the official notice issued by the AIIMS in this regard, the online exercising of choices for participation in the Open Round will be conducted from February 5 to February 12, 2026, up to 5:00 PM.

The result of the institute allotment against applied subjects will be declared on February 21, 2026 (Saturday). Candidates who are allotted seats must complete reporting and submission of documents between February 23 and February 28, 2026, up to 5:00 PM.

SCHEDULE

STEPS FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION & SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION FORM

STEP 1- To Register go to the AIIMS Exam section, select your desired course "DM/MCh" under the "Academic Courses" tab and then click on the "Registration/Login" under General Links to proceed further to register.

STEP 2- Enter your Candidate ID and Password to log in.

STEP 3- On "My Page", clicks onthe "Online Seat Allocation" link.

Meanwhile, the candidates who have participated earlier may use old login credentials, which were used in 01st & 02nd round of counselling. Candidate will have to deposit an amount of 3.0 Lakh in the account of Examination Section, AIIMS New Delhi through RTGS, NEFT or any other electronic Mode of payment. The candidate must submit/attach the payment details as well as cancel cheque in the online portal (My Page).

However, no candidate will be considered for the Open round counselling without prior willingness/registration, deposit of 03.00 Lakh & uploading of such payment receipts. This is the last round of Seat allocation, and no further rounds of seat allocation will be conducted.

ELIGIBILITY

1 Candidates who have appeared in INI-SS for the January 2026 session held on Saturday, the 22nd of November, 2025 and obtained the following will be deemed to be provisionally eligible (subject to other criteria) to participate in the Open Round of Institute Allocation-

a All participating candidates having obtained 50% OR above marks are eligible forthe Open round of Institute allocation

b Allocation of the Institute will be done according to their merit in AML & CML.

c Candidates who applied for General seat will be eligible only for General seats and those who applied for sponsored seats will be eligible only for sponsored seats. There will be no merging of seats from general to sponsored or sponsored to general.

d Eligibility for AIIMS New Delhi & other AIIMS: Candidates should mandatorily be in the AIIMS Merit List.

e Candidates who are holding a seat at any Institute in the previous round are not eligible for this Open round.

2 The Sponsored & Foreign National candidates may also participate in the open round.

To view the notice, click the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/schedule-325949.pdf

Along with this, the AIIMS has also published the vacant seat position for the Open Round of institute allocation under the INI-SS January 2026 session for admission to DM and MCh super-speciality courses.

According to the notice issued by the AIIMS in this regard, the vacant seat matrix has been prepared following the completion of the second round of online seat allocation and based on inputs received from participating Institutes of National Importance (INIs), along with previously issued notices and addendums. The subject-wise, institute-wise, and category-wise vacant seats for the Open Round have been provided, which spans multiple pages and covers a wide range of DM and MCh specialities.

As per the vacant seat matrix, a total of 208 seats are vacant in DM courses. Of these, a total of 47 seats are vacant for general and a total of 161 seats are vacant for sponsored. While, a total of 98 seats are vacant in MCh courses. Of these, a total of 24 seats are vacant for general and a total of 74 seats are vacant for sponsored. Below is the detailed seat matrix-

DM VACANT SEAT MATRIX

MCh VACANT SEAT MATRIX

To view the seat matrix, click the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/seat-matrix-325948.pdf