Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences, Jammu

Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Science Sidhra is a institute founded in 1994 and is popularly known as medical college situated in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. This affiliated college approved by NMC currently has a broad of medical programmes on its 30-acre land space. The college carries a total enrolment of 552 students and has an adequate faculty strength, 112 members.

The institution has enrolled 16 courses under its three degree programmes and these courses deal with different and specialised areas of medicine to guarantee thorough medical training to students. Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Science has many facilities that help it in its aim of improving the learning experience and the students’ health.

There are two hostels for girls and boys where campus occupants get to live in comfortable facilities in case they live within the compound. A well equipped health centre with first aid facilities taken care of all the medical necessities of the students. Those who are in fitness centre mood, a modern gym is there for them.

A college library acts as an information centre and consists of a vast amount of medical bibliography and other references. Concerning the extra facilities for the development of the health of the inhabitants, fans of sports can avail the number of sport complexes offered. The institution also has remarkable concern in technological enhanced with desirable it facilities.

Students and staff have an option of a cafeteria for their meals while an Auditorium holds events, seminars, and programmes that promote activities in the school. Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences provide all type of medical courses for its students for undergraduate as well as postgraduate level.

The largest programme of its type in the country today, the MBBS programme has 100 seats for prospective doctors. The college also provides several post graduate courses like MD & MS in Paediatrics, Radiodiagnosis , pathology, General Medicine , General Surgery, Anaesthesia, Biochemistry , Microbiology, Pharmacy, Physiology, Psychiatry , Anatomy, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology , ENT etc.

Each of these programmes takes three years except for the MBBS course which is a six-year course. Degree Name Total Number of Seats No of Specialisations MBBS 100 1 MD 29 9 MS 14 4 Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences strictly follow admission criteria and procedure for which admission is strictly done on merit.

For the MBBS programme, the admission process being through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Under Graduate), NEET UG . Taking this examination is mandatory for all intending candidates to be admitted in any of the institution in Nigeria. Likewise, for postgraduate courses (MD and MS programmes) admissions are being offered to the aspirants based on the NEET PG scores.

This helps the college admit students who have proven their competency in medical sciences in order to be able to cope with the college rigorous learning.