Q. Should I take medicine as my career ?
Ans. Few field offer a wider variety of opportunities. Most medicine professionals lives are filled with caring for people and continuously learning more about human body. Every day in communities around the country, doctors work in neighborhood, hospitals, offices, even homeless shelters and schools to care for people in need.
But a biologist also do many other things. They work with health maintenance organizations, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, health insurance companies, or in corporations directing health and safety programs. Academic biologist share their skills and wisdom by teaching biology students. Biology researchers are at work today developing exciting new treatments for career, genetic disorders and infectious disease like AIDS. People with biology skills are in demand everywhere.
Ask yourself what kind of future appeals to you. Do you want challenges, opportunities, a chance to make a difference? Many bright and motivated college students describe a "dream career" with the following characteristics.
Opportunities to serve : Allows you to help people.
Action : Doesn't tie you to a desk all the time.
Respect : You are an important part of your community
Security : Allows you a good living with a secure future
Excitement : Changes daily, so its hardly ever boring.
Mobility : You're in demand where ever you choose to live.
Flexibility : Gives you lots of career options from the same education base.
Few occupations meet all of these standards. None meet them better than a career in medicine.
Biology demand both in the volume of information you will be expected to master and the rate at which you will be expected to learn. You will need good study habits and time management skills as well as strong academic records. In order to obtain this student must properly choose right institute for pre-medical education. Institute should have good faculty and a reputation of high academic standards. It should cover all the subject required for pre-medical test. It should have good track records for having its student selected to top medical colleges. The institute should provide strong foundation in maths and sciences, these relate most to medicine : Biolgoy, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Physics.
AIIMS :- Go To Top
All - India Institute of Medical Sciences was established in 1956 at New Delhi, as an Autonomous Institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament with the objects to develop patterns of teaching in Undergraduate and Post-graduate Medical Education in all the branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of medical education in India, to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all the important branches of health activities, and to attain self sufficiency in Post-graduate Medical Education.
The Institute is the hub of tremendous activity. Thousands of its students, with their curricular and extra curricular activities, and myriads of patients and their relatives visiting it everyday with high hopes, constitute the most visible signs of the institutes pulsating character. Equally important, but not so obvious, is the dedicated band of scientists working silently in laboratories advancing the frontiers of knowledge with an a healthier future for mankind.
Renowned for its outstanding speciality and sub-speciality medicine, AIIMS is, accordingly, one of the finest breeding ground for doctors in the country.
Competition is intense, since only 50 students make it into the course. Spanning five - and - a - half years, it covers :
- Pre - clinical training : one year.
- Para - clinical training : one and a half year.
- Clinical training : two years.
- Compulsory internship : one year.
The excellent infrastructure at AIIMS, thanks to the quality medical service it offers, is ideal for supporting both education and specialized clinical sciences. This helps students become more adept at both team learning and at using information technology.
AIIMS provides an educational environment encouraging students to develop a scholarity and investigative approach to problems in medicine.
But it's not all classroom stuff, since scientific study is appropriately integrated with patient care.
Eligibility Criteria :
To get in, you must have completed your class 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Biology as the main subjects. More important, you must qualify through the All - India Entrance Examination conducted by AIIMS.
AIPMT :- Go To Top
In compliance with the Directives of the Supreme Court of India, the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi, conducts 'All India Pre - Medical Test in the month of May every year. This entrance examination is conducted exclusively for the 15% merit positions for 90 Medical and 24 Dental colleges throughout India. Total number of seats, which are filled through this examination, is around 1700. The colleges of Andhra - Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are excluded as per Supreme Court Directives.
From year 2004 the Examination pattern has changed. It consist of two phases entrance examination :
Preliminary Examination : The Preliminary Examination would consist of One paper containing 200 objective type questions (Four options with single correct answer) from Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany and Zoology) to be answered on the specially designed machine - gradable sheet using ball point pen only. The duration of paper would be three hours.
Final Examination : (Only for those who qualify in the Preliminary Examination).
The final examination would consist of two papers each of two hours duration. Paper - 1 would contain questions from Physics and Chemistry and Paper - 2 would contain questions from Biology (Botany and Zoology). The final examination will have conventional (non - objective) questions to be answered in the Test Booklet supplied.
Candidates can opt for Question Papers either in English or in Hindi. The option should be excercised while filling the Application Form. It cannot be changed later.
The time duration is two and a half hours. The question paper is supplied either in Hindi or English. Nearly 1,60,000 candidates appear for the examination at 300 examination centers.
Eligibility Criteria :
Student must be an Indian National.
Student must have completed 17 years of age at the time of admission or will complete the age on or before 31st December of the year of admission to the 1st year M.B.B.S. / Dental Course.
Student must have secured at least 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English combined at Std. XII or equivalent examination.
Student who are appearing for Std. XII examination are also eligible.
On the basis of this examination the Central Board of Secondary Education prepares a list of successful candidates in order of merit. The merit list consists of equal number of seats available for allotment in M.B.B.S. / B.D.S. course under 15% all India quota. There is also a waiting list equal to the 70% of the merit list.
In case of two or more candidates obtaining equal marks in the competitive entrance examination, the inter-se-merit of such candidates is determined in order of preference as under :
a. Candidates obtaining higher marks in Biology (Botany & Zoology) in the entrance examination.
b. Candidates obtaining higher marks in Chemistry in the entrance examination.
c. Candidates obtaining higher marks in Physics in the entrance examination.
d. Candidates older in age to be preferred.
