Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery [MBBS]

The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery programme at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is the primary undergraduate qualification for students who want to become doctors. The course begins with pre-clinical subjects, namely anatomy, physiology and biochemistry, before moving into para-clinical areas such as pathology, microbiology, pharmacology and forensic medicine, and then into clinical postings across medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry and community medicine. Clinical training takes place through ward rounds, outpatient clinics and supervised patient care attached to a teaching hospital, so that by the later years students are examining patients, assisting in procedures and building the judgement a practising doctor needs. A compulsory rotating internship follows the academic years, giving fresh graduates supervised, hands-on experience across departments before they are considered independently qualified. The programme suits students who are genuinely committed to a long, demanding course of study built on biology and human physiology, and who are comfortable with the emotional and physical demands of clinical medicine. Training at a hospital in a large city like Chennai exposes students to a wide range of case types and patient volumes. Graduates go on to register as medical practitioners and can enter general practice, pursue postgraduate specialisation in a clinical or surgical field, take up hospital-based roles, or move into public health, research or medical academia. Admission follows a sanctioned intake fixed by the medical regulator, with the category-wise seat matrix published separately each session by the counselling authority that conducts admissions; that current notification, and not an earlier one, governs how the seats are actually allocated.