Master of Chirurgiae [M.Ch]

Master of Chirurgiae [M.Ch] at AIIMS Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, is the institute's super-speciality surgical doctorate for surgeons who have completed a broad postgraduate surgical qualification and want to specialise further in one focused surgical discipline. Training centres on supervised operating-theatre work in that discipline, alongside ward rounds, outpatient surgical clinics and, in most units, structured exposure to the specific technical and instrument-based skills the super-speciality demands, with residents taking on more independent operative responsibility as they progress. Because entry follows an MS or an equivalent broad surgical degree, the years spent in M.Ch are used to convert that general surgical training into the narrower operative expertise consultants in that super-speciality are expected to have. The course is meant for surgeons planning a consultant career in that specific surgical field or an academic posting in a medical college with a strong surgical department. AIIMS Rishikesh fixes the sanctioned intake for its M.Ch seats each admission year, and the category-wise seat matrix for the relevant super-speciality is published through the institute's own admission notice for that session, worth reading fresh every year rather than carried over from before.