IIT Kharagpur to start MBBS course with 50 students in 2021-22
The Institute has a School of Medical Science and Technology running since 2001
KOLKATA: IIT Kharagpur is likely to roll out its ambitious MBBS program with an initial intake capacity.of 50 students from the 2021-2022 academic session. The OPD services in the 400-bed super specialty hospital are likely to start by the end of the year. Professor Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya, the officiating director, said: “We plan to start the OPD services this year. By early next year, we plan to start the indoor facilities in the first phase with 400 beds. Once the hospital is operational, we plan to roll out the MBBS curriculum as per MCI guidelines.”
“The plan is the second phase is to scale it up to a 750-bed hospital and increase the intake capacity to 100 MBBS students,” Bhattacharyya added. He said, “IIT Kharagpur will award the MBBS and postgraduate degrees, chart out the curriculum and manage the academic affairs while the day-to-day hospital management will be run by the special purpose vehicle floated under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. The hospital management will be run by the special purpose vehicle floated under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. The hospital’s board of directors will be headed by the IIT Kharagpur director and will include senior IIT faculty.”
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