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INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL
SCIENCES (AIIMS)
About
AIIMS:
All-India
Institute of Medical Sciences
was established in 1956
as an institution of national
importance by an Act of
Parliament with the objects
to develop patterns of teaching
in Undergraduate and Post-graduate
Medical Education in all
its branches so as to demonstrate
a high standard of Medical
Education in India; to bring
together in one place educational
facilities of the highest
order for the training of
personnel in all important
branches of health activity;
and to attain self-sufficiency
in Post-graduate Medical
Education.
The Institute
has comprehensive facilities
for teaching, research and
patient-care.As provided
in the Act, AIIMS conducts
teaching programmes in medical
and para-medical courses
both at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and
awards its own degrees.
Teaching and research are
conducted in 42 disciplines.
In the field of medical
research AIIMS is the leade,
having more than 600 research
publications by its faculty
and researchers in a year.
AIIMS also runs a College
of Nursing and trains students
for B.Sc.(Hons.) Nursing
post-certificate) degrees.
Twenty-five
clinical departments including
four superspeciality centres
manage practically all types
of disease conditions with
support from pre- and para-clinical
departments. However, burn
cases, dog-bite cases and
patients suffering from
infectious diseases are
not entertained in the AIIMS
Hospital. AIIMS also manages
a 60-beded hospital in the
Comprehensive Rural Health
Centre at Ballabgarh in
Haryana and provides health
cover to about 2.5 lakh
population through the Centre
for Community Medicine.
Objectives
of AIIMS
To develop
a pattern of teaching in
undergraduate and postgraduate
medical education in all
its branches so as to demonstrate
high standard of medical
education to all medical
colleges and other allied
institutions in India.
To bring
together in one place educational
facilities of the highest
order for the training of
the personnel in all important
branches of the health activity.
to attain
self sufficiency in postgraduate
in medical education.
Functions
of AIIMS :
- Undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching
in medical and related
physical biological
sciences.
- Nursing and dental
education
- Innovations in education.
- Producing medical
teachers for the country.
- Research in medical
and related sciences.
- Health care : preventive,
promotive and curative;
primary, secondary &
tertiary.
- Community based teaching
and research.
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