All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Teaching 

50 students are admitted each year to the MBBS course of AIIMS. Our MBBS students are a carefully selected group of remarkably able and intelligent students committed to a high sustained hard work is the norm. What they need is only a little guidance along the path to knowledge. All efforts are made to keep their initiative and curiosity alive by making them active participants in the teaching-learning process. They also have an opportunity to stretch their minds with research during their vacations. The faculty is willing andeager to provide vent to the wealth of ideas and energy available with this endless streamof extremely curious and committed young people. However, since they skills for the being are trained for practicing medicine, we ensure that they do acquire the purpose. Further, the science and craft of medicine should be accompanied by a humane approach to illness. To inculcate the necessary empathy in our students, our curriculum extends beyond medicine, and encroaches on science and psychology. In short, undergraduate medical education is a blend of several streams of competing, and sometimes conflicting, endeavours. We try and make the blend as harmonious as We wish to produce competent and caring doctors while at the same time stimulating the creative abilities of our students It is not surprising that AIIMS was judged the best medical in India in the INDIA TODAY-ORG-MARG poll conducted in 1997.