Master of Chirurgiae [M.Ch]
Fees
Fees at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program are highly economical, with a total fee of INR 5,856 for the entire 5.5-year course. This comprehensive fee includes tuition, hostel accommodations, electricity, and water charges. The annual tuition fee is approximately INR 1,628, while the annual hostel fee is around INR 1,000, supplemented by a refundable hostel deposit of INR 1,000.
Despite its affordability, a separate charge is applicable for mess services, which range from INR 3,100 to INR 3,500 monthly. Scholarships are available for SC/ST categories, although financial aid is often unnecessary due to the low fee structure.
Eligibility
Applicants must be qualified doctors holding a recognised postgraduate surgical degree in the feeder specialty for the M.Ch branch they are applying to, and must be registered with a state or national medical council. The qualifying degree has to be completed before the session starts, and candidates finishing senior residency are generally asked to submit a completion certificate at joining. Selection runs through a written entrance test followed by a departmental or clinical assessment, with very few seats per branch. Minimum qualifying marks, category-wise relaxations and the closing scores are decided by AIIMS Bhopal separately for each admission cycle, so candidates should work from the current prospectus and not from previous years' figures.
About Master of Chirurgiae [M.Ch]
The M.Ch at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal is a super-specialty surgical qualification pursued after a postgraduate degree in general surgery or an allied surgical discipline. The programme is residency-based: a trainee is attached to a surgical super-specialty unit at AIIMS Bhopal and learns by assisting and then performing operations under supervision, running outpatient clinics, managing pre-operative and post-operative care, and taking emergency calls, with academic sessions and a thesis running alongside. It is meant for surgeons who want to narrow their practice to a single field such as one of the organ-system or reconstructive specialties offered by the institute. Those who complete it usually take up consultant posts in super-specialty surgical departments of teaching hospitals and tertiary referral centres, or stay in academic surgery. Which M.Ch branches are open in a particular session is stated in the institute's admission notification for that year.
