In a welcome development for graduate medical aspirants in Telangana, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved five MD and five DM locations at Kakatiya Medical College (KMC). NMC’s Medical Evaluation and Review Board (MARB) has approved his five MD positions in Nephrology and five additional MD positions in Emergency Medicine for the 2023-2024 academic year.

MD, or Doctor of Medicine, is a three-year postgraduate course that MBBS graduates can take after completing their undergraduate medical education. The Doctor of Medicine (DM) course is also a three-year course, but it is a highly specialized course for doctors to receive specialized training in their respective fields. Since this is a PhD, a graduate medical degree is required.

Kakatiya Medical College, affiliated with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), has submitted a proposal to the Apex Regulatory Commission for Medical Education for the introduction of DM and MD courses in these two specialties.

The NMC’s Medical Evaluation and Evaluation Committee reviewed the March 13, 2023, evaluation report on the instructors, their experiences, publications, and other information, including the infrastructure available at medical colleges for the initiation of these courses. I checked the educational facilities.

On this basis, MARB has now issued a Letter of Intent (LOI), authorizing the university to commence his DM Nephrology and MD Emergency Medicine courses in the 2023-2024 academic year. Health Secretary T. Harish Rao congratulated the state’s Department of Medical Education (DME), tweeting: He has 5 locations in his DM Nephrology at his College of Kakatiya Medical in Warangal.

This is an important milestone for KMC and Telangana in expanding medical education opportunities and providing professional training to health professionals. improve the overall quality of the state and help develop highly qualified physicians to serve the health care needs of the state.