AIIMS Bhopal - All India Institute of Medical Sciences
The AIIMS, New Delhi model, will be adopted and adapted. Unlike the Postgraduate Institutes, which lack the necessary departments like Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, General Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, etc., the new AIIMS will have these departments as well as the super-specialty departments like neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, urology, endocrinology, etc. Also, departments of Accident & Emergency, Biostatistics, Medical Engineering, Hospital administration, Genetics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Telemedicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Medical Education Cell, etc. are also planned. This institution should also provide an excellent opportunity to promote basic scientists and biotechnologists and studies in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, allowing working nearby rich clinical material. A lot of effort would go into locating, enticing, appointing, and retaining talented faculty as it is the faculty that makes an institution great.
Vision
The Government of India has launched the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi with the objectives of i) correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable and reliable tertiary healthcare services; ii) augmenting facilities for quality medical education creating a critical mass of doctors and iii) researching the country relevant to the area. These institutions will be expected to absorb talent, provide the highly trained medical and paramedical workforce for the country, and conduct research in national and regional health problems. The institutes will be outside the purview of the Medical Council of India will be allowed to experiment with innovations in medical education and serve as advisory bodies for government health policies
Library
Central Library of AIIMS Bhopal which will be serving the varied needs of its readers efficiently. It is being planned to provide the online scientific as well as print issues of National and International journals of Medical Sciences, good volumes of books and sound reading place with the access to international libraries and major biomedical databases. World class library management systems like radiofrequency identification (RFID) system will be placed in the Central library of the AIIMS Bhopal.
Hostels
for men and women medical and nursing students are situated within the campus. The hostels have a running mess serving 4 meals a day. There is a common room on each floor which is fitted with television and has internet facility through wi-fi. Hostels are equipped with indoor games facilities. To facilitate outdoor games like cricket and volleyball, surrounding land has been readied. The hostels have round the clock security.
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