All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi


All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is a medical school, hospital and public medical research university.The institute is ranked 1 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, ranked 1 in South Asia and 231 in the world in the category of Life Sciences and Medicine by QS WUR.

History

AIIMS was established in 1956 through an Act of Parliament and operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.AIIMS is governed by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956. AIIMS was established in New Delhi after then Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's initial proposal to set up the institute in Calcutta was turned down by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal Bidhan Chandra Roy.

Rankings

International ranking

Main campus

AIIMS New Delhi's main campus is located in Ansari Nagar in Delhi. It is adjacent to the South Extension-II market and lies on the both sides of Sir Aurobindo Marg, southwards to the AIIMS Roundabout flyover crossing.
AIIMS Main campus is spread mainly into 5 locations:
  1. East Campus – Containing OPD Block, Main Hospital Block, Ward Block, Medical College, Research Section, Convergence Block, BB Dixit Library, Administrative Wing, Undergraduates Hostels, Central Lawn, Jawaharlal Auditorium and staff quarters. The 4 Specialty Centers for Cardiothoracic + Neurosciences, Cancer Center, Center for Ophthalmic Sciences and Center for Dental Education and Research are also within this East Campus.
  2. West Campus – It comprises mainly staff quarters and residences.
  3. JPNA Trauma Center – It is exclusively designated for Emergency services. In June 2018 a tunnel + ramp-road link between East campus and JPNA Trauma Center Campus was also opened. This link route is very useful in fast transferring of critical patients across the two Campuses.
  4. Masjid Moth Campus – This site contains new Post-Graduate and Resident Doctor's apartments. Underground parking block is also situated here. Upcoming New OPD Block, Mother and Child Care Unit, Surgical Block and Geriatric Block are also under construction here. These new blocks are aimed to reduce the patient load on the present OPD block in East Campus which is currently overhauled by nearly approx. 10,000 out-patients per day.
  5. Ayurvigyan Nagar Campus – It is too for faculty and staff's residential accommodations.
Across AIIMS is Safdarjung Hospital and associated Vardhman Mahavir Medical College. Also, adjacently lies the headquarters of Indian Council of Medical Research, the body that coordinates and funds medical research in India. In vicinity, also lies National Medical Library, run by the Directorate-General of Health Services of the Government of India. It has a vast collection of scientific and medical journals that can be accessed by researchers.

Extension campuses of AIIMS (New Delhi) Jhajjar-AIIMS-II

The second campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, spread over 330 acres of land was visualized during the period of Prof. Tirath Das Dogra as Director AIIMS Delhi and Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister of Health and Family welfare union of India in 2009 at Badshah village in Haryana's Jhajjar district.
AIIMS-II was thought to be developed as the largest medical Education centre for super-specialities in the world to meet the enormous need of super-specialists in various field in India. The 330 acres of land was donated by the then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, of Haryana to Anbumani Ramadoss, in presence of Director AIIMS Tirath Das Dogra, in a big public function on 28 February 2009 at the proposed site. The National Cancer Institute is first to come up, next is the National Cardiovascular centre as a joint venture between Govt of Haryana and Union health ministry in a series of future developments as envisaged. The next under the plan is a unique collaborative centre between IITD-Jhajjar campus located adjacent to the AIIMS 's Jhajjar Extension. They jointly are to set up a "biomedical research park", running joint PhD/research programmes managed through the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) and upcoming National Heart Institute

The 710 bedded National Cancer Institute of India and Infectious and Community Diseases Centre at AIIMS 's Jhajjar Extension Campus is constructed at a cost of ₹2,034 crores on 32 acres along the lines of National Cancer Institute of the USA and it is focused on treatment and research on the India-specific cancer.
It became operational on 18 December 2018 including OPD, lab and 250-bed hospital which will be expanded to 710 beds by December 2019. It is headed by Dr. G.K. Rath former Head of Department of Oncology at AIIMS. National Heart Institute is also being established here. A the heliport is being developed here in January 2019 for the Air Ambulance to serve emergency patients from remote areas.

Ballabhgarh Extension campus

Ballabhgarh, established in 1965, is an extension campus of AIIMS in Ballabhgarh city of Faridabad district in Haryana. This rural field practice OPD campus was set up in collaboration with Government of Haryana as "Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project" – "Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System". In 1961 Rural Field Practice was established at AIIMS with the help of Rockefeller Foundation. In 1965, the Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project was set up at Ballabgarh with a 50-bed hospital, 24 hr emergency and obstetric facilities, outpatient services in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, eye, otorhinolaryngology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pediatric surgery, dental care, homeopathy, NCD clinic, ANC clinic, immunization clinic, laboratory, radiological and ultra-sonography services.

Ghaziabad Extension campus

An intensive field practice area, the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre is an extension campus of AIIMS in Ghaziabad city of Uttar Pradesh.
The Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS was established in the year 1988 and was functional in New Delhi. In 2003 it was upgraded as a National Centre and is fully operational from its new premises in Ghaziabad, Delhi-NCR since April 2003.
NDDTC has been established as the apex centre for treatment of drugs and substance abuse disorders in the country. It provides a state of art model for de‐addiction treatments. This centre has full range of specialists and facilities. The NDDTC is situated on 10 acre beautiful campus. It is presently having 50 bedded treatment facilities
PhD Programme in the area of Addiction Psychiatry and DM Programme started since year 2012 and 2015 respectively.
The Ex-Chief of the Centre was a member of the International Narcotics Control Board, a monitoring body under the United Nations.
NDDTC has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre on Substance Abuse

AIIMS (New Delhi) Campus Redevelopment Master plan 2019

In February 2019 The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister of India has given 'in principle' approval to the Implementation of Master Plan to convert All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi into a world class Medical University.
The visualization at the time of institute's construction was for a limited number of patients. The medical institute was established as a tertiary-care centre, but now it has turned into a primary care centre. Over time, the requirement has increased manifold. The upcoming master plan will now have a vision for the next decade.
Benefits:
The project would provide highly specialized state-of-the-art healthcare to the patients and an integrated 'One Campus' answer to all the investigative, physiotherapeutic, operative, rehabilitative and vocational needs of the patients. It would ensure smart mobility and accessibility for the patients and become an apex tertiary care centre for advancement of research, clinical applications and management of patients.

Works expected as per the Redevelopment Master plan

By 2024, AIIMS will add around 3,000 more beds to its existing strength of 2,478 beds. So there will be a facility of approximately 5,500 beds in service by then.
A move that will come as a relief for thousands of patients who visit the hospital every day as presently the hospital sees a daily footfall of almost 15,000 patients and their attendants. It also aims to strengthen patient-care services and residential facilities for faculty members and staff.
Officials said the estimated cost of executing the master plan is around ₹10,345 crore, including ₹1,000 crore for hiring manpower.
The project will be completed in two phases; while Phase 1 will be completed in 46 months, the second phase will be finalized in 70 months.
As per the plan, a convention centre, a guesthouse with 40 rooms, a hostel with more than 4,500 rooms and 500 residential units with allied car parking will be set up.
As There is no scope of further expansion with the limited availability of land, residential facilities stretching from Trauma Centre campus, West Campus to East Campus and Ayurvigyan Nagar Campus will be relocated. This will free up space in the main campus and allow to expand vertically.
With senior faculty members raising issues of shortage of labs and operation theaters in the institute, the administration hopes the upcoming project will look into that concern. This new plan will also create scope for research projects, which have been pending due to space constraints.

Healthcare

Medical facilities

Clinical statistics for session 2017–2018

Specialty centres

Establisted in 1967 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, it is a 310-bed ophthalmic specialty centre.
It specialises in the treatment of cancer and hosts departments viz. surgical, medical and radiation oncology. Total beds are 182.
It is India's first full-fledged centre to treat victims of trauma. It is located about 1 km west of the main campus. It has a bed strength of 243.
Located adjacent to the Hostels, is AIIMS' newest specialty centre. The centre commenced a 4-year collaboration with WHO for oral health promotion. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India designated this Centre as National Centre for Excellence for implementation of National Oral Health Programme in the country. This centre provides technical support on oral health to the government and WHO. Despite having very few faculty members, this centre has been giving best research output per person in the country. It contains 17 beds.
Offers superspecialty patient care, training and research in the respective fields. Containing totally 464 beds.
It is a WHO collaborating centre on substance abuse containing 50 beds.
It maintains a teaching and treatment facility at Ballabgarh, which is a periurban area outside Delhi, it also provides comprehensive services to 84000 population. Faculty members from AIIMS are posted there by rotation. It contains 50 beds.

Academics

Admissions

AIIMS was originally established as a super-specialty tertiary care centre with primary emphasis on research and specialized training facilities. MBBS is the basic medical course at bachelor's degree level. This is followed by master's degree level specialisation in general surgery, general internal medicine, pediatrics and other fields. Superspecialties are those healthcare fields whose practitioners need specialised certification after completing their postgraduation, examples being cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, rheumatology, neurology, and pediatric neurology. There are at least 45 superspecialties at AIIMS at higher master's degree level. AIIMS also offers MSc and PhD level research courses.
There are about forty-two specialty post-graduate courses conducted at AIIMS. The entry is through a nationwide competitive examination, AIIMS PG, held every six months. Each year nearly 50 thousand medical graduates and 25 thousand dental graduates across the country compete for the limited number of positions, approximately <1% of the candidates are admitted through the process.
Institute has a separate Examination-Section of its own, dedicated for all national level entrance exams, university's internal professional exams and departmental exams.
National-Level entrance exams for all undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral seats in AIIMS and all other peripheral newly established AIIMS are conducted by this Examination-Section, through Online mode only.
AIIMS publishes The National Medical Journal of India. Several journals in medical sciences are edited by AIIMS faculty.

Changes in Entrance Examination pattern under the provisions of NMC">National Medical Commission">NMC Bill 2019

As per the latest official notification released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, AIIMS, JIPMER -Puducherry, PGI -Chandigarh & all INIs were directed to not to conduct any Undergraduate entrance exams from 2020 onwards.
Government has said that from 2020 session onwards, all such undergraduate admissions would be taken up only through a single national level examination NEET-UG conducted by NTA.
Many field experts however criticized this exam unification, specifically with respect to AIIMS, citing the reason that the level of questions in AIIMS-UG entrance exams used to be of such a higher & deep logical-conceptual thinking capabilities, that they eventually served a greater advantage for selecting the most desirable students for such scientific courses. And that was something really crucial for the main objectives for which AIIMS was established, which are cutting edge research, medical innovations and to demonstrate high standards of medical education to all medical colleges and allied institutions in India.

Residential facilities

AIIMS is a residential university where the faculty members, staff, and students live on either the main campus or one of the several extension campuses. At undergraduate level there is accommodation for total 400 students in 7 hostels, 6 male and one female hostel. At post-graduate level there are 3 hostels, 1 hostel for female students and 2 hostels for single male or married couples. Additional hostels for nursing students and post-graduate students are available at a facility in the Masjid Moth area, near the main AIIMS campus. Ballabgarh campus has hostels at Ballabgarh, Dayalpur and Chainsa for MBBS, MD, and nursing students deputed there.

Student life

Attendance is compulsory in MBBS and emphasis on participating in research activities, under the professors at AIIMS or elsewhere, from undergraduate years.
Class size at Undergraduate level is small with an intake of only 107 students per year for MBBS course. Seats are reserved category wise as follows:
An additional 5% horizontal sub-reservation within each category for PWBD belonging to the respective categories is also implemented.
Entrance exam is of a totally Online Computer Based Test pattern. Selection is purely on a Merit-basis.
Men constitute nearly 80% of student population. AIIMS has a cosmopolitan culture with students from allover India as well as from other nations such as Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Mauritius and more. A variety of Indian cultural festivals and most major international festivals are celebrated.
The students of AIIMS are known as AIIMSonians.
The students are represented by the AIIMS Students' Union, headed by an executive committee that is elected every year from students of 6th semester. Pulse, the annual inter-college festival is hosted by AIIMS, with daily attendance ranging from 15000 to 45000. The students annually host Infest, a scaled down version of Pulse with only internal participation. The students' body frequently hosts literary games, dance classes and arranges coaching for sports.
AIIMS has large well-equipped gym, swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball, volleyball, squash and soccer. The hostel also have a library.

Controversies

AIIMS (Delhi) Scam whistle-blower case

  1. Selling of counterfeit medicines at a private on-campus pharmacy owned by an MLA
  2. Corruption in recruitment
  3. Purchase of medical equipments & consumables
  4. Financial irregularities in ₹3850 crore construction projects and tenure extension of then Head of Engineering-Wing supervising these projects
  5. Unauthorized foreign trips by doctors
  6. Single bid tendering
  7. Corruption in computerization purchases
  8. Treatment of officers' pet dog at institute
  9. Matters of subletting
  10. Pension fund scam
  11. Sexual harassment
  12. Serious violations by security contractor firms
Subsequently, on many investigations done by Chaturvedi, CBI registered cases and recommended action against Vineet Chawdhry. As per India Today investigative report of June 2017, J P Nadda, Union Health Minister was found to have hushed up investigation into what the report termed as 7000 crore scam, detailing CBI report and scathing reports of Parliamentary Committee. Opposition parties on basis of this investigative report and documents mentioned in the report, accused Nadda of links with senior IAS officer Vineet Chawdhry who had earlier worked with Nadda in Himachal Pradesh

Directors of AIIMS New Delhi

Following current and former faculty have won the CSIR's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for research: