Divulging Jawaharlal Nehru's dream to set the pace for medical education and research in Southeast Asia , All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMSes) came into existance as 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 so as to demonstrate a high standard of Medical Education in India.
The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMSes) are a group of autonomous public medical colleges of higher education. AIIMS New Delhi, the fore-runner parent excellence institution, was established in 1956.
The older institute provides comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient-care, but the newer ones are in the process of establishing the reputation gained by the older.
AIIMS-Delhi conducts teaching programs 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. Medical research at AIIMS is the greatest with 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.
These are the various AIIMS institutes found in the country in 2014
Institute Estd Year Place
AIIMS New Delhi AIIMS 1956 Delhi
AIIMS Bhopal AIIMS 2012 Madhya Pradesh
AIIMS Bhubaneswar AIIMS 2012 Odisha
AIIMS Jodhpur AIIMS 2012 Rajasthan
AIIMS Patna JPN-AIIMS 2012 Bihar
AIIMS Raipur AIIMS 2012 Chhattisgarh
AIIMS Rishikesh AIIMS 2012 Uttarakhand
From the next academic session 201314, the total number of MBBS seats in the new AIIMS would go up to 600, providing an
opportunity to an additional 300 MBBS aspirants. With these new additions, the overall availability of MBBS seats in India would rise to
42,169 in the next academic year from the existing 41,569 in 335 medical colleges and 300 in AIIMS-like institutes across the country.
The courses offered by the AIIMS-Delhi are:
M.B.B.S. (Annual intake of 77 students)
MD/MS (Annual intake of around 217220 students in 24 disciplines)
DM/M.Ch. (in 12 and 5 disciplines respectively)
M.D.S.
M.H.A.
BSc(Hons.) Human Biology (19802002; now discontinued)
BSc (Hons.) in Optometry/Radio-diagnosis (Annual intake of 14 and 9 students in each discipline respectively)
BSc (Hons.) in Nursing (Annual intake of 70 students in BSc Nursing)
BSc in Nursing (post-certificate)
MSc in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Pharmacology and Physiology
MSc in Urology Technology, Perfusion Technology & Nuclear Medicine
MSc in Nursing
M.Biotech
PhD in 47 disciplines.
In all, at present, there are 50 students of intake for MBBS at all the new AIIMS except AIIMS Delhi.
However, this number is likely to be increased to 100 per year to other AIIMS from the coming academic year (2014- 2015).