Academic Courses and Facilities
The institute offers DM/MCh/PDF/PDCC/and Senior Residency (Hospital Services) training programs in various specialties. The institute runs DM (Doctorate of Medicine), M.Ch. (Magister Chirurgi), and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programs, training residents in surgical and medical superspecialty and specialty fields. It also runs Ph.D. programs for basic science research. (Click here to view detailed list of academic/ professional courses at SGPGIMS).
SGPGIMS has a well-equipped library with more than 16,000 books and subscriptions to nearly 450 scientific journals, a computer network with more than 230 computers, Internet connections, and e-mail facilities. Patient care activities are computerised.
There is a main auditorium, a smaller auditorium, and seminar rooms.
Teaching covers basic, medical, and surgical specialties, with compulsory and optional courses covering areas relevant to all aspects of medicine. There is a strong emphasis on research and training in research methodology in postgraduate courses.
All students have to complete two compulsory courses (Basic Course and Course on Biostatistics), and two optional courses from among those offered, including Scientific Communication, Clinical Decision Analysis, Research Methodology, Laboratory Instrumentation, Computer Applications, Biomedical Literature Search, Bioinformatics, Basic Immunology, Medical Physics, and Molecular Biology, etc., to be eligible for the final examination.
Publications in indexed national/international journals is a basic, mandatory requirement for DM and MCh programs. Thesis is a compulsory part of MD programs.
The senior residents and junior residents (trainee doctors) at SGPGI are selected through a nation-wide entrance test conducted twice in a year. Any Indian citizen with medical qualifications recognized by Medical council of India and who fulfills certain age and other criteria is eligible to take the entrance test, which is 100% objective. The various training courses at SGPGIMS are highly sought after, and many of the DM, MCh and MD courses of individual specialties are considered the best in the country.
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