IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS-Kalyani ink agreement for collaboration in Education, Research

IIT Kharagpur and AIIMS Kalyani have joined forces for collaboration in education and research. Read here to know more.

IIT-Kharagpur on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AIIMS-Kalyani for collaboration in education, research and medical services, said a statement. 

The agreement was signed in the presence of AIIMS-Kalyani Executive Director Dr Ramji Singh and IIT-Kharagpur Director VK Tewari, it said.

"On National Doctors' Day, IIT-Kharagpur joined hands with AIIMS-Kalyani on the lines of establishing a research-driven medical college, Dr BC Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre (BCRMMRC) and a hospital, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Superspecialty Hospital (SPMSH) within its campus at Kharagpur," Tewari said, as reported by Times Now News.

The key objective of this alliance is to promote collective and collative teaching and research collaboration involving faculty members and students to ensure teaching and research of the highest standard, the statement said.

"While the hospital started its outpatient services in the first phase, the in-patient services with critical care will follow," he said.

"AIIMS-Kalyani was conceived with the noble objective of bridging regional disparities in tertiary healthcare and fostering excellence in medical education promoting ground-breaking research," said Singh.

The medical college in Kharagpur will be equipped with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. 

"The primary objective of this endeavour is to run undergraduate and post-graduate medical programmes, and to nurture world-class translational medical research in a multi-disciplinary environment in collaboration with allied academic partners like AIIMS-Kalyani," added Singh.

Micro-specialisation and micro-credit courses may be designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the two institutions on a collaborative basis with a vision of apprising them about recent developments in advanced topics relevant to their respective domains of study, the statement said.

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