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| CURRICULUM IN CARDIOLOGY - HISTORY OF MEDICINE |
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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 166-170 |
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences: A journey in time
Shivani Vashista1, Yogesh Kumar2
1 Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 KL Wig Centre for Medical Education and Technology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
| Date of Web Publication | 1-Feb-2018 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Shivani Vashista
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jpcs.jpcs_56_17
AIIMS was established in 1956 to establish world class standards in medical care, education and research. This article highlights some of its development in pictures.
Keywords: AIIMS, history, photos
How to cite this article:
Vashista S, Kumar Y. All India Institute of Medical Sciences: A journey in time. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci 2017;3:166-70 |
| The Beginning | |  |
When India became independent, the need for an institution where medical care, education, and research could go hand in hand became obvious.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was the brainchild of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. The Princess of Kapurthala had her early education at Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset. She was awarded the Doctor of Laws by Princeton University in 1956. She dreamt of making an institute where students would be able to get a postgraduate education in medicine in India and also pursue research of the highest standards. She leveraged funds for its magnificent buildings and her hand-picked eminent academics, from India and abroad, as its founding faculty [Figure 1] and [Figure 2]. | Figure 2: The speech in parliament for the establishment for All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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| The first Convocation | | |
The first convocation [Figure 3], [Figure 4], [Figure 5] was attended by both the President and Prime Minister of India. | Figure 3: (a) First All India Institute of Medical Sciences batch. (b) Second All India Institute of Medical Sciences batch.
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 | Figure 4: One of the rare scene from history of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Dr. Zakir Husain, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Smt. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, and Prof. B. B. Dixit. These great visionaries graced the first convocation of All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1963.
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 | Figure 5: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur with the Director Dr. Dikshit and Prime Minister.
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| All India Institute of Medical Sciences Today | | |
AIIMS gradually developed to the size of the current building [Figure 6] and [Figure 7]. Various Centers were established to achieve the excellence in health care, education, and research. Under CCM, Comprehensive Rural Health Science Project, Ballabgarh, Haryana, was started to provide field training to the medical, dental, and nursing students and for the research of community health problem. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, the Cardio-Neuro Sciences Centre, the Rotary Cancer Centre. Named after the second director of AIIMS, Dr. K. L. Wig, the Center for Medical Education and Technology was instituted in 1990 to start a faculty development program and to provide media support to faculty and residents for their research work.
Later, other centers were added such as National Drug Deactivation Treatment Centre, Ghaziabad, Trauma Centre, Dental Centre, and new some upcoming ventures likely to come up in the near future are National Cance Centre at Jhajjar, Mother & Child Care Centre, New Surgical Block, New Medicine OPD Block, and Geriatrics Centre [Figure 6].
| The Future | | |
In 2012, by an act of Parliament 6, more AIIMS were created [Table 1]. On July 2014, in the budget speech for 2014–2015, (15) the Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley announced setting up four new AIIMS, in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and the Purvanchal region in Uttar Pradesh. On February 28, 2015, in the 2015–2016 budget speech, Jaitley announced five more AIIMS, in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Assam, and Tamil Nadu and an “AIIMS-like” Institute in Bihar. On November 7, 2015, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had announced development package for Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the setting up of two AIIMS, in the capital cities of Jammu and Kashmir. On February 1, 2017, in the budget presentation for 2017–2017, Jaitley announced two more AIIMS, in Jharkhand and Gujarat.
Teaching and research at AIIMS are conducted by the institute's more than 500-strong faculty supported by greater than 7000 nonteaching/research staff. On average, 548 graduate and 894 postgraduate medical practitioners emerge from AIIMS every year. The institute has also established a reputation in the field of medical research and publishes an estimated 1200 papers annually.
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Conflicts of interest
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[Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4], [Figure 5], [Figure 6], [Figure 7]
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