AIIMS DELHI All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi India

AIIMS New Delhi India

All India Institute of Medical Sciences


Basic Introduction
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the venue of the meeting is one of the premium institutes in Asia for patient care, health management, research and medical education. The institute draws best of the talents from every nook and corner of India for its undergraduate, postgraduate programmes and superspecialities in various branches of medical sciences. The students and faculty provide excellent state of the art patient care and is unique in its compulsive motivation to the basic and applied life science research and; excellent academic ambience.

Location:
AIIMS Main Hospital is located at Ansari Nagar, in front of Safdarjung Hospital at the crossing of Ring Road and Aurobindo Marg. Main entrance is on Aurobindo Marg.

Facilities:
The Institute has comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient-care. As provided in the Act, AIIMS 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. In the field of medical research AIIMS is the lead, 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.

Departments:
Twenty-five clinical departments including four super specialty centers 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:

* 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

* 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 and tertiary.

* Community based teaching and research