First IIT to offer recognised MD programmes, the institute will admit 12 students across six specialisations for the 2026-27 academic session.
IIT Kharagpur has become the first Indian Institute of Technology to introduce postgraduate medical degree programmes recognised by the National Medical Commission (NMC), offering 12 MD seats across six specialisations for the 2026-27 academic session.
The institute announced on Thursday that the courses would be conducted at its Dr B C Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre. The six disciplines are general medicine, radiology, physiology, pathology, community medicine and biochemistry, with two seats in each.
Admissions will be through the Medical Counselling Committee’s online NEET-PG 2026 counselling process. The second round of counselling is scheduled from November 10 to 23. Course fees and student stipends will be on the lines of those at AIIMS, the institute said.
IIT Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty said the institute completed the prescribed regulatory process with the NMC, including submitting details of its academic and clinical facilities and fulfilling the required conditions in March 2026.
Clinical training will be supported by the institute’s Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerji Superspeciality Hospital and the South Eastern Railway Hospital in Kharagpur, under an existing institutional partnership.
The initiative aims to bring clinical medicine closer to engineering, artificial intelligence, biomedical sciences and translational research. Students will have opportunities to work in areas such as AI-assisted clinical decision-making, advanced medical imaging, computational pathology, biomedical devices and precision medicine.
Chakraborty said the objective was not limited to training specialist doctors but also to develop medical professionals capable of using research and technology to address healthcare challenges.
Established in 1951, IIT Kharagpur is the first institute in the IIT system. Its entry into postgraduate medical education comes in its 75th year.
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