Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU MEDICAL COLLEGE 

The Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College was ranked as the 12^th best among 400 Medical Colleges of India in a survey by India Today- Neilson in 2016. The college has a cherished history and earned for itself a place of pride in the field of medical education. It was established in 1962 and is part of the Aligarh Muslim University with the mission to provide excellent knowledge as well as rigorous training that will prepare the students to meet the professional, scientific and clinical challenges. The highest calibre faculty, high class education, research and patient care all serve to attract the talented students to this institution.

The College has an intake of 150 MBBS and 146 postgraduate students and is successfully running undergraduate and post graduate programmes in almost all specialities as well as Diploma in Nursing and Para Medical Courses. The Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College consists of 25 departments and 3 Centres. The College also has one of the oldest Institute of Ophthalmology in the country. The various departments of the college have adequate teaching faculty as per their statuary governing bodies. The faculty consists of 240 qualified and experienced teachers. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College has an environment oriented towards "learning".

The students and faculty have constantly strived for academic excellence, state-of-the-art health care provision, and high quality research competing with the best in the country.

Every department has latest equipments in laboratories, research labs, and departmental libraries along with latest audio visual teaching aids. The five lecture theatres have seating capacity of more than 150 students each, two of them equipped with latest teaching aids have been converted into SMART Classrooms. The Faculty Library which is spread over three floors stocks more than 55,000 books on all subjects of medicine.

The Library has been selected by the National Medical Library (NML) for its Pilot Project of ?Interlinking of Government Medical College Libraries with NML?. Under this project MEDLARS centre has been developed in the library and its services are continuously being provided to the users of faculty of Medicine. A large number of online journals/e resources/databases are available through various data bases..

The College is also running various programmes sponsored by UNICEF, WHO, National AIDS Control Organization, ICMR, Tuberculosis Control, ART Centre (HIV), Save the Children, JIV Daya Foundation, Suraksha Clinic, SMILE Train, Diabetic Education and Awareness, Malnutrition Treatment Unit, Urban Health Initiative, National Polio Surveillance Programme etc.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College has been distinguished to be among those institutions in the country where doctors have left no stone unturned in mobilizing the community in combating Poliomyelitis until it was eradicated.

The College administration has always stood for the National cause and been among the first to send a Medical Team along with Medicines to calamity stricken people of Uttarakhand and Flood relief in Jammu and Kashmir.

This institution strives for the holistic development of its students where they get ample opportunities for overall personality development and polish their talents through the activities of the college society and participation in college week.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College has come a long way, retaining its unique character, still marching ahead with the times and is upgrading itself dynamically in all its fields of activities.