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It seeks to empower and enrich the country’s
human resource in diverse specialist and super
specialist medical and surgical disciplines through
the induction of a robust, innovative, low-cost
postgraduate teaching programme. The focus
is on optimization of the existing well-founded
healthcare facilities that offer vast clinical
experience and have highly-skilful and erudite
clinicians who can double up well as teachers.
Optimum utilization of large existing
hospitals in the country which offer a vast clinical
experience and have highly-skilful, erudite
clinicians on their staff who can teach and train
the postgraduate students is the guiding theme
of National Board of Examinations in Medical
Sciences.
To accomplish its mission, National Board of
Examinations in Medical Sciences has accredited a
large number of medical institutions both in the
public and private segment. These hospitals are its
partners in postgraduate medical education.
This innovative approach is associated with a
number of benefits. It maximizes the utilization
of existing hospital facilities, builds an academic
milieu in these institutions, inspires the clinician-
teachers to update their knowledge, and most
significantly, improves the standards of patient
care through 24 × 7 presence of young residents
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