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and postdoctoral programmes and upgrade and services across the country. Subject Number of Doctors
update them periodically. A National Board certification is viewed in being awarded DNB
high regard in large majority of countries. Tables Orthopaedics 1,083
Of partners in education 4, 5 and 6 cite the numbers of doctors who have Otorhinolaryngology 439
Beginning with a handful, the National Board qualified for award of various postgraduate and Paediatrics 1,166
of Examinations in Medical Sciences currently postdoctoral degrees of National Board at the Pathology 415
partners with more than 1100 hospitals across the twenty-first convocation. Pharmacology 24
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
40
country. The accreditation of a medical institution Table 4: Number of doctors who shall be awarded Physiology 26
is carried out on the basis of well-established Diplomate of National Board in different streams at the Psychiatry 246
laid out criteria to ensure that the candidates twenty-first convocation Radiation Oncology 246
find a fair footing both in academics and clinical Subject Number of Doctors Radiodiagnosis 1,136
training. being awarded DNB Respiratory Medicine 385
A large number of Government Medical Anaesthesiology 1,711 Rural Surgery 5
Colleges, Armed Forces Hospitals, Railway Anatomy 27
Hospitals, Public Sector Undertaking Hospitals, Biochemistry 35 Table 5: Number of doctors who shall be awarded
District Hospitals, minority institutions and Community Medicine 101 Fellowships of National Board in different streams at the
twenty-first convocation
private hospitals are a part of the growing club Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy 378
Emergency Medicine
269
Number of Doctors
of National Board of Examinations in Medical Family Medicine 292 Subject being awarded FNB
Sciences in postgraduate medical education. Field Epidemiology 1 Arthroplasty 7
Forensic Medicine 23 Breast Imaging 3
Major boost to specialist workforce General Medicine 1,637 Cardiac Anaesthesia 9
Through its postgraduate and postdoctoral General Surgery 1,374 Critical Care Medicine 261
programmes, National Board of Examinations Hospital Administration 9 Cross Sectional Body Imaging 1
in Medical Sciences has been contributing in a Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion 28 Hand & Micro Surgery 14
big way to the pool of qualified specialist doctors Microbiology 94 Infectious Diseases 17
both in the country and globally. These specialists Nuclear Medicine 41 Interventional Cardiology 23
in various medical and surgical disciplines have Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2,224 Liver Transplantation 2
helped immensely in strengthening the healthcare Ophthalmology 1,038 Maternal and Foetal Medicine 23

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