The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) (originally known as ''L'Ecole de Médecine de Pondichéry'')is a medical school located at
Pondicherry
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, the capital of the
Union Territory of
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, in India. JIPMER is an
Institute of National Importance
Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution in India by an act of Parliament of India, an institution which "serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled per ...
(INI) and a tertiary care referral hospital. It is under the direct administrative control of the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
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The Minister of Health and Family Welfare ...
, and
Indian Government
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, with autonomy to run its internal administration.
![Jipmer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Jipmer.jpg)
JIPMER currently has over 300 faculty members, over 700 resident physicians and over 800 nursing, administrative and support staff. It admits 150 undergraduate students and 200 postgraduate students annually.
History
1823: The erstwhile
French India
French India, formally the ( en, French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian Subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de ...
established the L'Ecole de Médecine de Pondichéry to train French citizens in
Pondichéry.
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JIPMER. Retrieved on 9 October 2013. It was one of the earliest institutions of tropical medicine and the teaching staff consisted of surgeons and doctors of the French navy and ''troupes coloniales''. Students who were trained here were granted a diploma called ''Médicin Locale'' that allowed them to practice medicine in the colonial territories. The college then was located in the heart of the
Pondicherry
Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...
, opposite ''Le place de Gaulle'', which is now the Legislative Assembly Hall.
1956: Following the ''de jure'' transfer of Puducherry to India in 1956, the Government of India took over the college and renamed it as ''Medical College, Pondicherry''. For a short period, this was also called the Dhanvantri Medical College.
1959: The foundation stone for a new medical college building was laid at Gorimedu, on the outskirts of the town by
SE Le Comte Stanislas Ostrorog, Ambassadeur de France aux Indes,
1964: Dhanvantari Medical College moved to Gorimedu, to a new campus called Dhanvantari Nagar.
1964: The institution was given its current name in honour of India's first Prime Minister
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
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, as "Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research" (JIPMER), on 13 July 1964, by
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the then President of India.
1966: The main hospital block was inaugurated and the blood bank was commissioned, signalling the shift of all clinical services to the new campus.
1973: The Central Library was inaugurated
1975: The National Teacher Training Centre was established at JIPMER marking the beginning of JIPMERs involvement in training generations of medical teachers across the country.
1995: The Department of Cardiology started a Cardiac Catheterization Lab to provide interventional cardiology services.
2000: The Emergency and Trauma block was inaugurated.
2001: A separate Administrative Block was inaugurated to consolidate all offices spread across the hospital campus.
2002: The Department of Radiotherapy was upgraded as a Regional Cancer Centre. The centre now includes the Departments of Radiotherapy, Medical Oncology, and Surgical Oncology.
2006: JIPMER College of Nursing was inaugurated and started functioning.
2008: JIPMER was upgraded as an Institution of National Importance by an act of Indian Parliament.
2009: The Super Specialty Block started functioning, initially providing services from Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Urology, and Plastic Surgery
2012: Paediatric, Obstetric and Gynaecology services moved into the JIPMER Women and Children's Hospital, which was inaugurated by
Dr Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Ind ...
, the then Prime Minister of India.
Campus
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The campus of JIPMER lies at the western entrance of
Pondicherry
Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...
and spreads across of a hillock known locally as Gorimedu.
The campus contains the medical college, the old and new hospital blocks, student and resident hostels, staff quarters, a
Kendriya Vidyalaya
The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan () is a system of central government schools in India that are instituted under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. , it has a total of 1,248 schools in India, and three abroad in Moscow ...
, a branch each of two nationalized banks, two ATM's, a post office, a temple, the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam JIPMER Auditorium playgrounds and sporting fields.
Organization and administration
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The institute is headed by the Director, who is the chief executive charged with the overall responsibility of running the institute and its hospital. The Medical Superintendent helps the Director coordinate all the hospital functions pertaining to patient care. Dean (Academic) is charged with overseeing and coordinating all the academic activities of the institute including teaching, whereas Dean (Research) looks after all the research-related activities.
Principals of Dhanvantri Medical College/JIPMER, Pondicherry
* Leon Lapeyssonie—first Principal
* S Vengsarkar
* D Jagannath Reddy
* Bala Subramanian
* DB Bisht
Directors of JIPMER
*
MN Ghosh—first Director
* OP Bhargava
* P Bahadur
* S Chandrasekar
* DS Dubey
* Deepak Ruhil
* KB Logani
* PH Ananthanarayanan (first JIPMER alumnus to become director of the institute)
* KSVK Subba Rao
* TS Ravikumar
* Subhash Chandra Parija
* Vishnu Bhatt
* Vivekanandam
* RP Swaminathan
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Rakesh Aggarwal
Regional Cancer Centre
The ''Department of Radiotherapy'' at JIPMER was converted to a
Regional Cancer Centre
Regional Cancer Centres (RCCs) are cancer care hospitals and research institutes operating in India under the joint control and funding of the Government of India and the respective state governments. The name 'regional' because each of these insti ...
in 2002. , the Regional Cancer Centre has two departments housed in a new building, namely Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology. Advanced radiation treatment facilities, ranging from 3D conformal radiation and IMRT to Image-guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) are available. Basic radiation facilities, such as 2D Cobalt and LINAC, HDR brachytherapy are available free to all cancer patients. Further, most of the commonly used high-cost chemotherapy drugs are also supplied free. Recently, Bone Marrow Transplantation is also being practised in this centre.
RCC, JIPMER is the only hospital in southern India to provide free cancer treatment, as is also done for other advanced medical services, such as pulmonary medicine, nephrology, gastroenterology etc.
Academics
Since its designation as an
Institute of National Importance
Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution in India by an act of Parliament of India, an institution which "serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled per ...
, JIPMER is a university by itself, and awards its own degrees. Prior to that, it was affiliated to
Pondicherry University
Pondicherry University, also known as PU, is a Central university (India), collegiate public central university located in Kalapet, Pondicherry in Union Territory of Puducherry, India. It was established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 by the ...
. JIMPER offers a number of medical, nursing and paramedical courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Admissions to all the courses are based on merit.
The institute conducts research in modern medicine, public health and medical education. A research council at the institute level oversees the research activities and a scientific society provides a forum for presenting research work. Numerous conferences, workshops, seminars and training courses are conducted by the institute every year. Funds for research come from intramural and extramural sources such as the ICMR, UGC, DBT, WHO, etc. The institute's faculty, residents and students regularly publish research papers in journals of national and international repute and research abstracts at national and international conferences.
Courses
JIPMER offers a variety of courses. Undergraduate courses include
MBBS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...
, B.Sc. (Medical Laboratory Technology), B.Sc. (Allied Medical Sciences - Cardiac Lab Technology / Dialysis / Neuro / OT), BMRSc (Bachelor of Medical Record Science). B.Sc. (Nursing) was started in 2006. Postgraduate courses include MDS,MD, MS, and diploma in many specialties, M.Sc. in Nursing, Medical Biochemistry and Medical Physiology and PhD in several subjects. Super-specialty courses include MCh in cardiothoracic surgery, urology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, paediatric surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and DM in Cardiology, Neurology, Nephrology, Neonatology, Clinical pharmacology and Immunology. In January 2014 JIPMER started master's in public health course. Emergency Medical Technician course MRO and MRT.
Admission
Candidates to the courses offered at JIPMER are selected based on All-India entrance
NEET
NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", refers to a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training. The classification originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, and its use has ...
. Entrance examinations are held once a year for undergraduate seats and twice a year for post-graduate seats. Calls for applications and results of these examinations (including the names of selected candidates) are announced in major national newspapers as well as on the institute's website.
MBBS course
JIPMER currently admits 249 students to the MBBS course once every year through an all-India entrance examination. Some seats are reserved for
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natives and Central Government nominations. Of these seats, 187 are for the Puducherry campus and 62 are for its Karaikal campus, which started in 2016.
Postgraduate courses
Three-year postgraduate courses offered at JIPMER include MD in General Medicine, Emergency medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine, Microbiology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Dermatology, Biochemistry, Community Medicine, TB & RD and Psychiatry and MS in General Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Anatomy. The entrance examination i.e., INI-CET has been launched since year 2020 conducted twice a year for postgraduate courses in may and in November.
Super Specialty Courses
Three year super-specialty courses are offered in Medical (DM) and Surgical (MCh) specialties. They include Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Neurology, Neuro Surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Medical and Surgical Gastroenterology, Medical Oncology, Neonatology, Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Immunology.
PhD
PhD candidates are admitted to many departments like Public Health, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Microbiology etc. Admissions are based on an entrance examination conducted once every year.
Other courses
B.Sc. Nursing.
Four years professional course. Admissions are based on entrance exams.
BSc (Medical Lab Technology) and BSc (Allied Medical Sciences - Cardiac Lab, Anesthesia, OT, Dialysis and Neuro-Technology courses) 3 year. Admissions are based on entrance exams.
MSc (Medical Biochemistry and Medical Physiology). Admissions are based on entrance exams.
Rankings
JIPMER was ranked 59th in the world by ''CEOWORLD Magazine'' in March 2022. It was ranked fifth among medical colleges in India in 2019 by ''
Outlook India
''Outlook'' is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.
History and profile
''Outlook'' was first issued in October 1995 with Vinod Mehta as the editor in chief. It is owned by the Rajan Raheja Group. The pu ...
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[ and third by '']The Week
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''.[ It was ranked eighth among medical colleges in India by the ]National Institutional Ranking Framework
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(NIRF) in 2020.[
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Ongoing developments
JIPMER has started the work of it's second super-specialty block (SSB-II), JIPMER International School of Public-health. Institute is partnering with other institutions, including Harvard School of Public Health, to exchange faculty, educational tools, research and data on public health. JIPMER's tie-up with the Harvard School of Public Health is part of the larger MoU between the American Medical School and Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. JIPMER has also started the works of offsite hospital in Karaikal.
Telemedicine
The Telemedicine Services Centre of JIPMER started collaboration with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), South Korea and has started using Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN). Since, JIPMER is a Member of TEIN Network, the hospital can interact and share knowledge with European and Asian Countries. On 15th February 2016 the personnel of JIPMER interacted over Video Conferencing using TEIN Network with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) South Korea. JIPMER thus became the first centre to use the Telemedicine services for the purpose. The Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) uses the ICT technologies to increase regional cooperation with Asian countries and to bridge the digital divide among less developed regions. It connects universities and research institutions with high capacity Internet network to increase the exchanges of knowledge among them and make big international research projects real.
Student life
Student’s union
The students union is the "JIPMER Students Association" (JSA). Representatives of the student body are elected annually in a campus-wide election. A similar, albeit smaller, body exists for the postgraduate students and residents and is called the JIPMER Resident Doctors’ Association (JRDA).
Alumni groups
JIPMER alumni, especially those who have graduate from the MBBS course, have formed several alumni communities and organizations.
* The largest is an online virtual community called ''Jipmernet'' where alumni from all over the globe are active participants.
* The oldest alumni organization is the ''JIPMER Alumni Association'' (JAA) that organizes an annual meet the first weekend of August at JIPMER that is attended by alumni from India and abroad.
* Regional alumni organizations include the ''JIPMER Alumni Association of North America'' (JAANA), the ''JIPMER Alumni Association of the United Kingdom'' (JAAUK) and the ''JIPMER Alumni Association of North India'' (JAANI).
Alumni
* Paramasivam Natarajan
Paramasivam Natarajan (1940–2016) was an Indian photochemist, the INSA Senior Scientist at the National Centre for Ultrafast Process of the University of Madras and the director of Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) o ...
, photochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...
(1984) awardee
* K R Balakrishnan
K R Balakrishnan is an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon, cardiothoracic and Heart transplantation, heart transplant surgeon. He is the member of Indian Medical Association.
K R Balakrishnan earned Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MBBS deg ...
, heart surgeon, performed the first permanent artificial heart transplant in India with HeartMate II LVAD
See also
* List of medical colleges in India
India's medical schools are usually called medical colleges. Medical school quality is controlled by the central regulatory authority, the National Medical Commission, which inspects the institutes from time to time and recognizes institutes fo ...
* List of medical schools
Medical schools are developed, monitored and credentialed by national organizations in each country. The agency responsible for this recognition in most countries is the Ministry of Health. Medical schools that are recognized by the appropriate a ...
* Medical college in India
In India, a medical college is an educational institution that provides medical education. These institutions may vary from stand-alone colleges that train doctors to conglomerates that offer training related in all aspects of medical care. Th ...
* Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is a public medical university in Chandigarh, India. It is an 'Institute of National Importance'. It has educational, medical research, and training facilities for its studen ...
* Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical Institute under the State Legislature Act in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, south of Hazratganj on Raebareli Road. It was established in 1983 and is named after Sanjay Gandhi.
Th ...
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