HYDERABAD: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved four new super-speciality courses for Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), adding 16 seats across Master of Chirurgiae (MCh) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM) programmes.
NIMS director Nagari Beerappa said the institute secured four additional MCh seats each in surgical gastroenterology, vascular surgery and surgical oncology. The NMC has also granted four DM seats in onco-pathology.
Beerappa said NIMS is the first government medical institution in the country to receive approval for a DM super-speciality course in onco-pathology. The course will cover histopathology, cytopathology, haematopathology, molecular diagnostics, immunohistochemistry, cytogenetics and genomic profiling.
He said integrating these technologies would enable precise and personalised cancer diagnosis.
NIMS currently offers BSc, Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT), Postgraduate Diploma (PGD), Doctor of Medicine (MD), Master of Surgery (MS), Master of Physiotherapy (MPT), Master of Hospital Management (MHM), diploma, MCh and DM courses across 51 departments, Beerappa added.
Meanwhile, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad, has received three DM seats in critical care medicine. Kiran Madala, head of the department of critical care medicine, said the additional seats would strengthen emergency and critical care services for patients in life-threatening conditions.
He said the move would help improve care in neurology, cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, general surgery, post-operative and infection-related cases, and enable more high-end surgeries.