The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) is going to establish a Medical College and is opening a Center for Engineering in Medicine near its campus soon.
The new centre will begin enrolling students from October that will offer Masters and PhD level courses with nearly 50 seats.
The medical college-cum-speciality hospital will have Master’s level courses.
Abhay Karandikar Director of IIT-K said, “We are preparing a detailed project report with the help of Tata Trust. It should be ready within a tenure of 2 months and we will then propose it to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).”
About the project :
The institute is likely to set up a 20-acres having bed capacity of 500. The reports suggest that IIT-Kanpur would need around Rs 800 crore to realise the dream of a medical college.
“We already have a very strong biological discipline, including biosciences and bioengineering departments that why we will begin by first setting up a centre for engineering in medicine from October. Candidates will be enrolled based on JEE and JAM scores. The medical college will begin by offering MD, MS (PG) levels, though we do wish to offer MBBS courses too in future,” remarked Karandikar.
The demand for the integrated study of engineering and biology is very high across IITs.
IIT-Delhi, IIT-BHU and IIT-Gandhinagar already have centres for biology-related studies.
The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE 2020, entrance exam for Master’s level courses at IITs has introduced a new exam called Biomedical Engineering (BM) this year.
The IIT-K will not only be the first IIT but also the first-ever Indian engineering institute to have its own medical college after successful implementation of program.
IIT-Kanpur has also launched a new PhD programme in partnership with Australia-based La Trobe institute.