IIT Kharagpur to soon offer MBBS courses

IIT Kharagpur to soon offer MBBS courses

IIT Kharagpur to soon offer MBBS courses
IIT Kharagpur, known around the world for its engineering courses, would be the first one in the IIT system to venture into medical education.

Going beyond engineering, IIT Kharagpur would soon start offering MBBS courses as well.
The government has already sanctioned a grant of Rs 230 crore last year for this purpose. Construction work will start soon and is expected to be completed within 26 months
The authorities have already sought approval from the Medical Council of India (MCI) for providing undergraduate medical education courses like MBBS.

On a three-acre plot on the edge of the campus, the 400-bedded super-speciality hospital, Dr B C Roy Institute of Medical Science & Research, would be ready by the end of 2017.
Besides serving the local populace, the hospital will also work on biomedical, clinical and translational research.
Drug design and delivery will be other key research areas to which the hospital will contribute.

The hospital is planning to use technologies like remote diagnostics, telemedicine, teleradiology, and expert systems leveraging outreach of cellular network.
Also proposed are a paramedic, nursing training facility, biomedical innovation unit and a medical outreach unit.
In the next phase, the hospital would be upgraded to 750 beds,

Since 2001, IIT-Kharagpur has been running the school of medical science and technology which has an inter-disciplinary three-year post-graduate programme in medical science and technology.

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