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Subject Number of Doctors Subject Number of Doctors Those of us who have the
being awarded FNB being awarded DrNB
Minimal Access Surgery 71 Nephrology 212 duty of training the rising
Neurovascular Intervention 5 Neuro Anaesthesia 10 generation of doctors...must
not inseminate the virgin
Paediatric Gastroenterology 5 Neurosurgery 215 minds of the young with
Paediatric Nephrology 4 Neurology 197 the tares of our own fads. It
Paediatric Cardiology 1 Paediatric Cardiology 38 is for this reason that it is
Paediatric Haemato-Oncology 38 Paediatric Surgery 39 easily possible for teaching
Paediatric Intensive Care 38 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 123 to be too ‘up to date’. It is
Reproductive Medicine 53 Surgical Gastroenterology 111 always well, before handing
Spine Surgery 51 Surgical Oncology 133 the cup of knowledge to the
Sports Medicine 9 Thoracic Surgery 10 young, to wait until the
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 11 Urology 276 froth has settled.
Vitreo Retinal Surgery 3 Vascular Surgery 39 –Sir Robert Hutchison
BMJ, 1: 995 (1925)

Table 6: Number of doctors who shall be awarded In essence, since its birth in 1975, National
Doctorate of National Board in different streams at the Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences
twenty-first convocation has been actively instrumental in creating new
Subject Number of Doctors paradigms in postgraduate medical education
being awarded DrNB through a free-thinking approach. It has helped
Cardiac Anaesthesia 21 build a number of temples of learning, given quality
Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery 134 specialist doctors and has contributed immensely
Cardiology 353 in strengthening the specialist health care in the
Clinical Haematology 23 country.
Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology 15
Endocrinology 29
Medical Gastroenterology 188
Medical Genetics 8
Medical Oncology 101
Neonatology 50

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