Honorable Prime Minister Shri. Manohar Lal inaugurates a modern facility with 150 MBBS seats in the sprawling campus of Amrita Hospital.
On Apr 8, 2023, Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Manohar Lal inaugurated the Amrita Medical School in Faridabad during the ongoing C20 Integrated Holistic Health Summit. Amrita Medical School with an area of 5.2 lakh sq. ft., is offering 150 MBBS seats for the academic year 2023-24. Indian and international students seeking admission must appear for the National Eligibility Test (UG).
Dr. Sanjeev Singh, Medical Director, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad said, "We already operate a highly reputed Amrita School of Medicine in Kochi. We are now delighted to bring the same standards of educational and medical excellence to Faridabad by opening this new School of Medicine attached to Amrita Hospital, which is India’s largest private multispecialty hospital with 2,600 beds.
The facility will have all the facilities and infrastructure conducive to the most advanced learning with state-of-the-art classrooms, world-class labs, high-end technology, and academic and research linkages with Amrita University and select Ivy League universities in the US and Europe, Amrita figures among the top 10 universities in India in the NIRF Rankings."
Col. BK Mishra, Director, Amrita Medical School, Faridabad said, "Our faculty is among the best in Asia and would nurture students to become highly trained doctors who are much sought after in India and abroad. The School of Medicine will provide hostel facilities to all students, be they from India or around the world.”
Dr. Sanjeev Singh added, "At Amrita Hospital campus in Faridabad, we now host a Medical College and a Nursing College. We are also operating an Allied Health Sciences College that offers 20 to 30 courses that help build capacity and skill sets and supports the clinical teams at the adjacent hospital. The Faridabad campus, part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, is being shaped as one of the few multidisciplinary healthcare systems in India with a focus on research, collaboration, and shared information. The cooperation between professionals from various medical disciplines at Amrita Hospital and researchers at Amrita University aids in creating a distinctive interdisciplinary ecosystem that promotes scientific achievements.”
Amrita also built a 100 sq. ft Simulation Training and Development Center that would serve robotics training, haptic training, surgical training simulations, cadavers, and quality training for undergraduate and graduate students. Amrita Medical School is the eighth campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, one of the best private universities in India. The university is ranked fifth in the 2022 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is accredited by NAAC with the highest possible grade of A. Amrita Medical School in Faridabad carries forward the legacy of Amrita Medical School in Kochi, ranked 8th in the NIRF 2021 ranking. Amrita is among the top 50 in the world in The University Impact Rankings 2022. World-renowned humanitarian Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, AMMA, is the chancellor of the university.
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