All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajkot (AIIMS Rajkot) is a
public
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medical school
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and hospital based in
Rajkot
Rajkot () is the fourth-largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat, and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area in India, with a population of ...
,
Gujarat
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, India, and one of the
All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , Government of India. These institute ...
(AIIMSs). The first academic session of AIIMS Rajkot began on 21 December 2020.
On 31 December 2020 Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
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laid the foundation stone of the institute.
Academics
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister
Harsh Vardhan virtually inaugurated the first academic batch of MBBS students 21 December 2020 for the 2020-21 batch.
The institute became operational with the first batch of 50
MBBS students, one of the four AIIMSs to become operational in academic year 2020–21. In 2021 the institute functioned from a temporary campus at
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Medical College
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Government Medical College, located in Rajkot city of Gujarat state, India, is one of a few handful government run medical colleges of the state, working in association with the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Government Medic ...
with
AIIMS Jodhpur
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur (AIIMS Jodhpur; IAST: ''Akhil Bharatiya Aayurvigyan Sansthan Jodhpur'') is a medical institute and medical research public university based in Jodhpur, India. It is an Institute of National Imp ...
mentoring it.
References
2020 establishments in Gujarat
Educational institutions established in 2020
All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
Education in Rajkot
Medical colleges in Gujarat
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