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A. I. I. M. S.
A hands-on guide to A. I. I. M. S.

A. I. I. M. S. : Dr. Soumya C. V. ( view bio )

Hi friends,

Our website is indeed wonderful! Congrats to KKV and all those who worked for it! I shall tell u about AIIMS and my stay there.

AIIMS is indeed very nice. It is a referral centre and Rajendra Prasad eye institute and I. R. C. H. (our R. C. C. equivalent) and National Medical Library are all in the same campus. We are Academic Junior Residents (JRs). There will be Senior Residents (SRs) (who have finished 3 years pg after which they can work as senior resident for 3 years) who supervise our work in the North. The House - Surgeons or Interns as they are called, most of them do not even know to put in a cannula. It is while doing P. G. that they learn all this. One JR from Rajasthan didn’t know how to hold a cannula for putting it!

The wards are very clean with no patient on the floor (in stark contrast our M. C. H.) and are air – conditioned. So it doesn’t matter if the weather is cold or hot as long as we are in the wards. Pediatrics and most other specialties have 3 units each with 2 admission days a week for a unit. Casualty posting is separate like our O & G. Each unit deals with some of the specialties. For example, I worked in Paeds Unit 3, which deals with Oncology, Pulmonology, and Immunology. The case profile is very different from M. C. H. with wards full of A. L. L. (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) and Cystic Fibrosis. The referral cases from Uttar Pradesh (or is it Uttam Pradesh now?) Bihar, Utharanchal, Chattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan all come there. Cases like Hydatid Cyst and Neurocysticercosis are all very common here.

We are supposed to give chemotherapy to patients. Intrathecal Methotrexate and all Bone Marrow examinations, L. P.s, Muscle, Nerve, Kidney, Liver biopsies etc. are done by us. The facilities are so good that there are machines for ABG, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Glucose, and Microhematocrit in the wards and we are to do them ourselves. We are supposed to draw blood, collect some reports from labs just like House Surgeoncy.

On admission day, each of us will be allotted patients for workup. We have to examine and discuss with Senior Resident the case-plan, investigations etc. Then we draw blood, send investigations, collect reports and discuss with other specialty faculty for dates of consultations. We also discuss with the patient’s bystanders who do everything for the patient. Investigations like Protein C and S, factor V, LAIDEN mutation, Nuclear Scans are all so commonly done here! Radio diagnosis is very good with M. R. I., SPECT scan etc. The I. C. U. setup is also ‘kidilam’ with many ventilators.

Every ward even has a dietician who looks into the calorie intake of patients and hospital food is given accordingly. Most of the nurses (about 75%) are Malayalees. Hindi is also not a problem. Most of the JRs, SRs, sisters are all from different parts of the country. There are also foreigners who come to do research here. In my unit there was a lady from France.

One thing about A. I. I. M. S. is that bystanders don’t have to run around for investigations. Blood samples are all carried by ward attenders to labs and reports are collected by us or attenders. In JIPMER reports can be collected from computers kept in wards and discharge cards are also made in computers. In A. I. I. M. S. there is no computer in the ward but 24 hour internet access is available for students. The A. I. I. M. S. library is also wonderful will get all new journals textbooks etc. As I’ve mentioned before, the National Medical Library is also in the campus.

It was the coldest winter in “Dilli” in the last 10 years and foggiest too! But climate is not a problem since wards are air conditioned. I couldn’t taste academics much because it was time for winter leave for faculty members and therefore, all clubs Grand Rounds were not there for 2 weeks. As part of P. G. programme, we will be allotted thesis work and guides. Topics would be like etiology of mouth ulcers in A. L. L. Hostel is good and food is brought into the room on ordering. Food is good with variety especially for vegetarians and also very cheap.

On a normal day, routine starts from 7.30 am. Classes begin at 8.15 and go on till 9. Then, senior resident rounds and faculty rounds stretch till afternoon. At 2 o'clock specialty clinics like T. B. clinic H. I. V. clinic etc start. Duty would be there for about 36 hours on every alternate day for the first 1 year then twice a week but we learn a lot.

Finally, how to get in! There are 2 entrances a year - one in May and the other in November. The number of seats to play for are lesser in the Entrance held in May. The pattern of questions is just like All India PGE the difference only in the quantitye ie. only 200 questions are there. The exams are held in Delhi alone. The A. I. M. M. S. Quota system has been scrubbed and so open quota seats are more compared to previous years. If anybody wants to know more about A. I. I. M. S. or the Entrance, you can talk to me or just send a mail. I am taking General Medicine in Trivandrum. My counseling is on February 19th. Best of luck to all of you!

Dr. Soumya C. V.

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